Posted on 10/27/2011 12:47:49 PM PDT by MichCapCon
The Institute for Energy Research projected that coal plants in Lansing, Litchfield and Holland would “likely” be shut down due to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations by 2016. The three Michigan plants were part of a nationwide look at coal plants expected to be impacted by new regulations recently enacted or proposed by the EPA.
Ten percent of the country’s coal energy capacity is expected to go offline by 2016, according to the Institute for Energy Research.
The country gets 60 percent and Michigan gets 66 percent of energy from coal-fired power plants, according to Russ Harding, senior environmental policy analyst for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Harding said new and proposed EPA regulations could lead to brownouts and interruptions of power once coal plants start shutting down.
Recent EPA regulations on carbon dioxide and mercury, as well as a proposed regulation on fly ash, will start shutting down plants within four years as the cost becomes too much to meet the new standards, Harding said.
“A lot of the older plants will shut down because it won’t be cost effective to put all the controls in place,” Harding said. “It will also discourage any construction of any new coal-fired power plants.”
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Exactly as intended.
Sierra Club Michigan Ad: Rep. Tim Walberg is anti-clean air (Feeds babies arsenic, mercury, and dioxins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yXzR7auAskQ
Tim Walberg will kill 140,000 people over the next 7 years.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/15875
All the more reason to elect Perry. He’s already taken on the EPA.
Der plan is verking.
Diversity is good, but we should use more nukes and less coal.
You don’t have to be an expert to know that many electrical plants will shut down and costs will rise.
Obama said that, He means for it to do exactly that.
Congress needs to move on this immediately if they can stop sitting on their duffs doing nothing.
Three things need to be done immediately, Close down the EPA , close down Obama care, and send a message over to Obama that he does not make the laws in this country,nor does he decide where our spending is to go.
This dipstick is running wild all over the country campaigning on our dime and writing EO’s like crazy, while the Congress just says Yassuh Mr. Messiah.
We’ve got to take the senate in the next election. We’ve got some good people who are trying to do the right thing like Kristi Noem and Tim Walberg but like you said, Boehner is a jellyfish.
Defund the EPA.
A fact which would not loom as threatening - if - we were concurrently building replacement bas load power ! We’re not ! So that means our current government is pushing us further into an increasingly tight corner where even one plant failure could result in a catastrophic “cascade” taking down major portions of the grid ! Is this “responsible government” ?
Or is it one aspect of a planned pogorm to dismantle the economic engine and social system that’s increased the welfare of millions across the world ? >PS
When are these states going to wise up and just refuse to do what the EPA says? What’s Barry going to do about it? Send the TSA? Its time to tell the Feds to buzz off.
“Diversity is good, but we should use more nukes and less coal.”
Why use less coal?
More nukes are good, but, then, I don't have any problems with coal, either. The article is correct, coal plants will be shuttered. And, much to the surprise of the liberals, the utility companies will not have the billions of capital hidden away to build windmills.
We will just have to make do with less electricity, and, as has been pointed out already, that's the plan.
Surface coal mines are ugly and disfiguring, underground mines are dangerous and Hg emissions not good. Plus there are coal fires that are difficult to put out (China has enough of those going to make as much CO2 as all the US cars and light duty trucks do). It may be good to export coal to help the balance of payments. We may want to use it to make Diesel.
Thanks MichCapCon.
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