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Obama EPA Regulations Kill 15 Power Plants, 480 Jobs In Georgia
Washington Examiner ^ | January 8, 2013 | 10:20 am | Beltway Confidential

Posted on 01/08/2013 10:54:35 AM PST by drewh

Georgia Power asked state regulators for permission to shut down 15 power plants yesterday, claiming new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) make the plants too expensive to run.

The 15 coal-, oil- and natural gas-fired power plants currently produce 2,061 megawatts (MW) for Georgia energy consumers. Georgia Power plans to close 11 of the plants on the exact day the EPA’s new mercury regulations are set to take effect, April 16, 2015. Georgia Power will seek waivers from the EPA to keep four of the other plants open for a single year, and then shut those down too on April 16, 2016. It is unclear how the Georgia energy sector will make the 2 gigawatts up.

The EPA claims its new mercury regulation will produce $140 billion in annual benefits, but only $6 million of the benefits come from actual mercury reductions. According to Dr. Anne Smith, Senior Vice President of NERA Economic Consulting’s Global Environment Group, effectively all of the EPA’s estimated benefits come from “coincidental reductions” of fine particulate matter. But fine particulate matter is already regulated by a separate section of the Clean Air Act.

The plant closures will cause at least 480 fewer power plant jobs and higher electricity rates for all Georgia energy consumers.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
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To: WellyP

I’m hoping sooner . . .


21 posted on 01/08/2013 12:43:59 PM PST by rhubarbk (Matt Ryan 2013 Super Bowl MVP)
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To: drewh
Democrat Party Job Killing MachineTM     bump for later...
22 posted on 01/08/2013 12:53:22 PM PST by indthkr
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To: drewh

Red states need to start passing laws forbidding power generated within the state to be transferred to blue states who refuse to build power plants.

Let the commies sit in the dark for a few days and they will get a new attitude about power ASAP.


23 posted on 01/08/2013 1:03:56 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: drewh

That’s great..../s


24 posted on 01/08/2013 1:05:08 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: drewh

bump


25 posted on 01/08/2013 1:05:58 PM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: drewh
I don't even comprehend why this is a story. Zero promised this in 2007-2008.

Obama Promise Kept: Coal Plants to go Bankrupt with New EPA Carbon Cap 3/29/2012

OBAMA WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY 11/3/2008
26 posted on 01/08/2013 1:12:14 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: jimmyo57

And to who?


27 posted on 01/08/2013 1:16:51 PM PST by kevslisababy
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To: OCCASparky
It’s going to cost a lot more than 480 jobs when the ripple effects are considered.

One example: twice-weekly coal trains I see rumbling through my part of North Alabama... can't prove it, but I expect they go to north Georgia power plants.

28 posted on 01/08/2013 1:21:06 PM PST by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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To: DesertRhino

Yup. 500 broken families broken now.

Imagine is some hurricane or national tragedy happened wiping out 500 families ?

The media and politicians would be all over tv.

But when its the Kenyan Communist Traitor - S$% be upon him - silence as always.


29 posted on 01/08/2013 1:21:35 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Iron Munro
He promised to make coal and oil fired power plants too expensive to operate and he is doing exactly that.

True, but he also said in 08: Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it...

Hence he's shutting down clean natural gas plants too.

30 posted on 01/08/2013 1:29:20 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: drewh

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/07/utilities-southern-georgia-idUSL4N0AC5UA20130107
The story is a little different than the article he used as a source. I have done work at many of these plants. Some are outdated and inefficient. The epa is an ass, though.


31 posted on 01/08/2013 1:39:54 PM PST by mirkwood
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To: Brad from Tennessee
A prudent government would focus research on clean coal technology.

I can't remember the last time our government was accused of being prudent.

32 posted on 01/08/2013 1:39:54 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

[I can’t remember the last time our government was accused of being prudent.]

On that subject, the manufacturing sector of Western Europe used to build their power plants to burn both oil or coal, whichever was cheaper at the time. This had a regulating effect on both fuels.


33 posted on 01/08/2013 1:50:08 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: hal ogen

Uh, we went for Romney, as a state. Just for the record.


34 posted on 01/08/2013 1:51:45 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: WellyP
.... I keep thinking that sooner or later Obama and his thugs are going to stick the wrong group in the eye!

Or poke a wolverine ...

"Son, you don't poke a wolverine with a sharp stick unless you want your balls ripped off." -- Grandpa Vanderboegh.

35 posted on 01/08/2013 1:52:04 PM PST by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: drewh

Devil went down to Georgia,
He was looking for some plants to close,
He was in a bind,
He was way behind...


36 posted on 01/08/2013 2:04:01 PM PST by moovova
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To: drewh

But....but....but.....I just bought an electric car, where am I going to plug it in? Am I going to have to drive to Alabama, or South Carolina or Tennessee or Florida and find a working electrical socket?


37 posted on 01/08/2013 2:10:02 PM PST by Flint
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To: DesertRhino
Someone,, somewhere will decide enough is enough.

A few years ago an 80 year old rancher here in Texas was being hassled time after time by some rookie deputy. Just didn't like the old man for whatever reason and would pull him over on the dirt roads leading out to his ranch.

One day that old rancher had enough of this punk and shot his ass right there on his ranch for trespassing.

Like you say, someone, somewhere will decide enough is enough.

38 posted on 01/08/2013 2:10:29 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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39 posted on 01/08/2013 2:11:09 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: RicocheT

“It seems that the “..alternative energy system in the very near future” for the folks in our state of Georgia will be lots of flashlight batteries.”

Yes thats what we are afraid of. We are buying rural property and installing either solar or micro hydro as a non grid tie backup. All appliances on propane.


40 posted on 01/08/2013 2:13:23 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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