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The White House walks away from clean coal
McClatchyDC ^ | 1/17/2015 | MATTHEW PHILLIPS, JIM SNYDER AND MARK DRAJEM

Posted on 02/18/2015 4:23:44 AM PST by thackney

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1 posted on 02/18/2015 4:23:44 AM PST by thackney
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To: thackney

Watch what they do, not what they say.


2 posted on 02/18/2015 4:38:06 AM PST by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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“Using almost $1 billion in stimulus money, the project was supposed to become the poster child for clean-coal technology.

-snip

The resurrection was short-lived. On Feb.3, the Department of Energy announced it was withdrawing support.”

So we spent a billion for nothing, except to illustrate the duplicitous nature of this administration.

The government giveth. The government taketh away.


3 posted on 02/18/2015 4:39:47 AM PST by lowbridge
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Yet another reason we should never look for the government to help private industry, except to get out of the way.


4 posted on 02/18/2015 4:46:10 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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It is rumored, that even liberals, when they die (not just conservatives who die), their bodies rot, and, it forms stuff like natural gas, oil, coal, over time, which is renewable. Even precious trees when they die, they form such renewable fuels.

So, liberals need to find a way to avoid death, which will validate their electric cars...oh, wait, something has to turn a turbine to create electricity...Liberalism is mental disorder, which is why so many liberals, especially the PhDs have such illogical things like touch therapy and astrology stickers on their cars.


5 posted on 02/18/2015 4:47:53 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (We plan to endure. 3%)
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‘”We don’t need it, and we can’t afford it,” Bruce Nilles, head of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, says of carbon-capture projects.’

LOL...statements like this demonstrate just how flaming narrow these people are. In his view its not needed just b/c he said so. Facts need not apply. Oh ya...these are the smartest people in our society...NOT.


6 posted on 02/18/2015 4:48:26 AM PST by 556x45
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To: thackney

This is just insane!


7 posted on 02/18/2015 4:48:56 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: upchuck

So true. They don’t want coal in any way, shape or form or gas and oil either. They want to put us on wind and solar and hydro. That’s the agenda 21.

Mr. GG2 holds a patent on a gasification process that will burn coal so clean you cannot believe it. He pitched it to the govt. several years ago. Not interested.


8 posted on 02/18/2015 5:26:35 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Not wven hydro. The greenies don’t even like hydro because of its impact on the ecosystems in and around waterways.


9 posted on 02/18/2015 5:41:51 AM PST by Scutter
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Another benefit of coal is when the train carrying it derails, it does not blow up.


10 posted on 02/18/2015 5:56:31 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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There ya go. :-)


11 posted on 02/18/2015 5:58:45 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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They’re against coal on principle.

But they’re also using it as an economic weapon against coal-producing states that are increasingly going and solidifying Republican. West Virginia and Kentucky for instance. McConnell calling out the Obama Admin’s War on Coal played a huge partvin his 15 point landslide victory last Fall, as well as Jay Rockefeller’s Senate seat in WV flipping to the GOP. The Admin and it’s supporters are very much in a reprisal-driven mood.


12 posted on 02/18/2015 6:04:34 AM PST by tanknetter
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"They’re against coal on principle."

That is the bottom line. However, "clean coal" projects have been around since the Arab oil embargo of 1973 with untold federal dollars being spent to develop the technology. It is not just an Obama boondoggle.

13 posted on 02/18/2015 6:59:52 AM PST by buckalfa (First time listener, long time caller.)
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U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has supported Obama’s campaign since it began.

“The claims you are hearing from the McCain-Palin campaign are misleading and untrue,” Rockefeller said in a news release. “Barack Obama has been very clear with me and with you on his plan for clean coal and it’s the most aggressive plan in support of clean coal we’ve seen from any presidential candidate.

“The idea that the McCain-Palin campaign is alleging the day before the election that Barack Obama’s commitment to coal is anything but solid is absolutely ridiculous,” he added.

“This is exactly the kind of deceptive politicking voters are fed up with.”

http://www.hsconnect.com/page/content.detail/id/511265.html?nav=5010


14 posted on 02/18/2015 7:12:15 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: woodbutcher1963
They rarely have a major problem with a coal train, but every once in a while...


15 posted on 02/18/2015 7:18:47 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Twenty years back I got a call from the BN railroad first thing on a Winter Monday morning. A railcar of lumber I sold to a customer in Ohio had rolled into the yard outside of Chicago ON FIRE. Either that or some bums(that is what we all called homeless folks back then) lit it on fire to keep warm.

The other possible cause was a spark that ignited the grease on the wheels. Anyways, the lumber was a total loss, and the fire was so hot that the steel on the 73’ A Frame car bent/melted from the heat. The sawmill replaced the car for the customer and reshipped it promptly.


16 posted on 02/18/2015 10:00:01 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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That coal fire started from a bad wheel on the train. In investigating the problem, the train unfortunately stopped with that car over the wood bridge.


17 posted on 02/18/2015 10:02:57 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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We get offered salvage loads from trucking companies and the insurance companies all the time. We love them. They are huge profit potential. Plus they are sold “as is”, no claims.


18 posted on 02/18/2015 10:19:49 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., does not exist. He is completely a figment of your imagination.
19 posted on 02/18/2015 10:22:35 AM PST by NorthMountain
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Is that a problem with a coal train, or a problem with a train, or a problem with a wooden trestle?


20 posted on 02/18/2015 10:23:42 AM PST by NorthMountain
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