Posted on 07/17/2015 12:27:30 AM PDT by kitchen
Edited on 07/18/2015 4:31:04 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DENVER
(Excerpt) Read more at advancingco.org ...
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WildEarth Guardians is urging Sally Jewell, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, to address the truthful climate implications of coal mining when she meets with officials from Craig, Colorado this week.
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In a speech in March, Sally Jewell told an audience that it’s time to ask ourselves “How do we manage the [federal coal] program in a way that is consistent with our climate change objectives?”
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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell minimalized the impact a proposed rule intended to protect water in the proximity of coal mines would have on coal-reliant communities during a press conference Thursday.
Jewell called the potential loss of approximately 200 jobs across coal country “relatively minor.”
The proposed rule would adversely affect 460 jobs but at the same time account for an additional 250 jobs created under the restoration actions required by the plan, Jewell said.
“The net impact is a couple of hundred jobs in coal country, specifically due to this rule,” she said. “So, it’s relatively minor.”
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Environmental organizations advance their agenda by engaging in collusive litigation with the Department of Interior, EPA, and other federal agencies who know that going along with the environmentalists would violate the law or the public interest, but who quietly side with the environmentalists. So they set it up so the environmentalists sue the agency, and the agency conveniently puts up little or no fight against the lawsuit, and once the court rules in favor of the environmentalists, claim they have no choice and what the environmentalist want is now “the law.” On top of that, the environmentalists enrich themselves because as prevailing parties, they are generally entitled to an award of attorneys fees and costs from the government (that is, us, the sucker taxpayers).
The environmentalists are very careful never to name the actual targets of their efforts, usually private parties, as parties to the lawsuit, and when these interests try to intervene to protect their rights, the courts conveniently say they have “no standing.”
By the way, it is this exact same process that was used by homosexual activist organizations to overturn the will of the people regarding Proposition 8 and other constitutional probisions defining marriage as between a man and a woman. With Proposition 8 it was a collusive lawsuit by homosexual activists against the liberal State of California government who rolled over and did not defend against the lawsuit. Those who were in favor of the Proposition, including those groups who were instrumental in getting it passed, were held to have no standing.
Absolutely! I would also suggest that these actions frequently originate from within the various fed.gov agencies and are then handed off to willing dupes to further their agenda. Cherry-picked judges, government lawyers roll over in court, and we pay $4K/hour legal fees to the organization bring the suit.
A couple of hundred jobs lost.. Relatively minor? Insanity. First of all a couple hundred families with maybe 350 children, at least. Not minor to those families. Second, that’s a couple hundred people not able to buy things, even necessities. Then, that’s a couple hundred people with at least 350 children on the taxpayer dole. Maybe she never had a math class with exponentials.
That few hundred jobs is a good chunk of the employment in Moffatt County, which has slightly more than 10,000 people.
They won’t allow exploratory uranium drilling either. The environmentalist organizations are only fronts for the other local neighbors behind them. Like I said, mostly pensioners from faraway cities. They’re bigger spenders with taxes and fees, too, so the local government folks really like them. Anyone thinking of buying a lot and building on it had better think twice, too. The regulations and fees are horrendous, much like those of northeastern coastal cities, and the NIMBY neighbors get really mad about anyone putting up any new building, even in the middle of nowhere.
You left out the merchants and service providers those couple hundred families won’t be able to buy anything from. The 200 are just the rock hitting the pond, the waves go out from there. Far more are affected.
There are environmental and health costs to burning coal and traditionally, in the US, these costs have been socialized.
But when you apply market principles to burning coal, then those costs would be applied to the company that burns the coal and the company that mined the coal.
So the Judge ruled that the mine study was faulty because it didn't take into account the environmental and health costs of burning coal, and if those are taken into account the permit is void.
Once you get passed that, it becomes a political issue and the GOP wants to use it to unelect the democrat, who backed the appointment of this judge.
And as a political issue it transcends this particular issue. 15 years ago, AZ and CO began shifting to the dems and the GOP has tried, successfully, to shift the two states back to the GOP, using immigration, the gun regs implemented in CO by the dems after Sandy Hook, and enviros.
So the Judge ruled that the mine study was faulty because it didn't take into account the environmental and health costs of burning coal, and if those are taken into account the permit is void.
Then the mining company should be responsible for the environmental and health costs of the mining operation. The company that burns it should be assessed for the environmental costs of that burning operation and I suspect that they are. They're trying to shut down the mine by applying costs to the mining operation that are already being applied to the burning operation during the permitting process for the power plant.
If Nichols has an address there is something that can be done.
Just sayin’.
L
you are correct....... he should be hounded to hell
fear should be present during every moment of every day
They all want the Secretary(Jewell) to appeal the judge's decision but she says that the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement is "on track to address the deficiencies in the Colowyo permit within the 120 day period". The 120 day period was established by the judge. With that report, they have something to appeal on.
But they say that is a govt agency that can't do anything in 120 days, which means the 120 days will run out before Jewell can do anything and the mine will shut and all the minors will lose their paycheck, at least temporarily, and perhaps forever.
If that's what's happening, then they shouldn't need that report before they can have something to appeal on. All they should need is a copy of regulations involved in permitting the power plants.
The most successful at shutting down coal powered power plants is the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, which is heavily funded by Mike Bloomberg and the natural gas company Chesapeake Energy, who wants the coal plants to switch over to nat gas.
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220 people working at Colowyo, some 180 more at the Trapper Mine, and 300 at the power plant, coal is the economic backbone of the region
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Most of them are probably white children, so, no biggie.
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