Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/02/2009 12:35:21 PM PST by tcrlaf
The Dynegy Corporation has announced the termination of their coal-plant development partnership with LS Power, effectively canceling plans for six new coal burning power plants.
Momentum against coal is growing all around the country, as residents of Kingston, Tennessee recover from a one billion gallon spill of toxic coal ash produced by a coal plant last week. That spill promises to leave streams, fish, front yards and drinking water in the community under health advisories for months, if not years. Now, just two days into 2009 the tally of canceled coal plants is already ticking up.
The environmental community has labeled Dynegy “the next King Coal” in response to their plans to build these coal plants, the largest new coal fleet proposed in the USA. The Sierra Club launched a campaign to Clean Up Dynegy in February 2007, that spring thousands of Green America members asked Dynegy to cancel the plants and with the help of RAN, Public Citizen and a busload of Southern Energy Network student activists a massive protest engulfed Dynegy’s annual meeting in Houston last May.
There, inside the shareholder meeting, investors warned about the massive cost of carbon regulation to the company and activists raised concerns about the toll of its coal plants on surrounding communities and the climate. This summer courts in Georgia dealt Dynegy another setback, halting plans for a new plant until the state developed a plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the plant.
Today Dynegy is backing down, canceling their partnership with LS power.
YES, it's an Eco-lib site, but it explains WHO killed this pretty plainly.
Obama has made it plainly clear what he intends to do to coal, and now it's costing Americans JOBS. I hope the UMW, that spent members money to commit ECONOMIC SUICIDE is listening...
BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!>.......................
It will only be so long before economic reality will catch up. Somehow I doubt the “change” most Obama voters were looking for involved shivering in their houses because they can’t afford their sky-high electric bills.
The plurality of our electricity will come from coal for the foreseeable future. Even the Messiah can’t change that.
I’m just amazed at the utter stupidity of these morons. They think electricity magicly comes from a switch on the wall.
Meanwhile, Democrat policies keep destroying more and more jobs. And Mostly DEMOCRAT-VOTING JOBS...
How did we get so stupid???
Leftists went for the schools. Everyone let them. The rest was inevitable.
Not to worry. A few more windmills here and there, a couple of solar panels on the roof, toss in a few CFLs and everything will be fine. Those coal plants don’t generate much power anyhow.
Then they need to calculate the cost of building each and determine how long each system can operate, as well as coming up with a way to maintain the flow of energy at night or on less than optimal days for the solar plant.
Lunch is now free, but it means skipping suppers and paying two or three times as much for breakfast.
CNN positively fawned over the ash spill, repeatedly saying “coal-fired power plant” along with the appropriate descriptors of danger, threat, risk, worry, etc as they showed aerial photos of the ash. They also stated such plants contribute to the unquestionable global warming. It’s clear that Obama’s anti-coal mantra has been taken up.
Exactly, and power plants are just pollution factories that have nothing at all to do with allowing them to watch An Inconvenient Truth on their plasma TVs in their heated and lit houses while eating the vegetarian lasagna they took out of their freezer and heated in their microwave. Nothing at all.
...and voters in coal-producing states KNEW that Obama would kill the coal industry, but they still voted for him!
“BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!”
^^^ This.
But hey...
At LEAST they won’t be dyin’ from Globo Warmin’!!
What a shame! Coal is our greatest energy resource.
Three letters:
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Has had an inordinate influence on the dumbing-down of America.
I guess they figured it would be a bad investment given that Obama has said he wanted to “bankrupt” the coal industry.
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