Posted on 11/05/2007 4:06:54 PM PST by mission9
As I recall, Clinton designated a huge deposit of low sulphur coal, located in Utah, as a national park. Riadi had control of a similar coal site in Indonesia.
Aha! beneath the teasing of other posters, a gleam of gold. Good observation.
Whats wrong with nuclear?
-any hope of her getting black lung disease? RME, what is she thinking?
“Joe Lucas is the Executive Director of ABEC. Previously he was undersecretary to Hazel O’Leary at the DoE under Slick. IIRC, this was around the time that BJ made those coal deposits out west “off limits” thereby giving a huge boost to the Riadi family.”
the plot thickens. If any new technologies for carbon sequestration are developed, the cream of the tech will go to the highest campaign donor.
The amount of coal Santa can stuff in her stocking this year will be enough to heat all of D.C. for a year.
Leni
yep as noted upthread. Plus “research” probably means money going to Hill’s environmental friends who will collect millions, jet around giving speeches and doing faux research.
But Riady will make a killing.
Can’t she contact friends at Tyson? Instead of her and the bent one looking the other way while tons of chicken poop was dumped in the Arkansas river, couldn’t the same polluters be convinced to use all that chicken shiite to power methane-to-steam plants???
Didn’t B.J. create a national reserve in Utah, closing off millions of acres of prime coal reserves about the same time Indonesia announced discovering vast newly discovered fields? Riady’s anyone?
No BJ fan, I, but I think the Riady coal story loses its punch when actual US coal usage is examined. The Clean Air Act mandated 1.2 pounds of SO2/MM BTUs max emissions from new industrial and utility boilers after 1972. Gillette coal from the PRB easily achieves < .90 pounds. There really is no need to import Indonesian coal to the US when we have plenty here that meets New Source Performance Standards of the Act and about 100 million tons/year of various compliance coal is being burned in the US. Indonesian coal might play a role in China’s development, but right now, China is mining its own coal for less than Indonesia can produce it. Australia’s met coal dominates the steel industry in Japan. Philippine coal is low sulfur and being mined, apparently for less than Indonesian coal, otherwise low sulfur Indonesian coal would be developed and sold. It ain’t.
Yes, BJ Clinton exercised a gross misuse of the “Antiquities Act” to set aside 1.8 MILLION acres of land in southern Utah (little of which had any conceivable connection to preserving “antiquities”). Previously the understanding of the designation of a “National Monument” was something far smaller than most National Parks, a unilateral exercise of executive authority to protect a relatively small, limited site of some major historical and/or archaelogical interest. Clinton showed how much the Demagogues love “unilateral” exercise of executive power when it suits them.....
I have seen it asserted that Clinton’s action gave Riady’s group a monopoly or near monopoly worldwide on a certain high-quality, low-sulfur coal. I have no way to now whether this is true or not - any experts here on FR? Here is what was on Worldnetdaily.com in 1998 (yes, I know they are not always a reliable source, that is why I emphasize that I have no idea what the truth of the coal issue might be in this matter):
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16813
In addition to those two counts, Zeifman raises another little-understood scandal first reported by Land Rights Letter in 1996 by Sarah Foster, now a staff writer for WorldNetDaily. This was the executive order signed by President Clinton on Sept. 16, 1996 — six weeks before the presidential election — designating as “wilderness” some 1.7 million acres of federal land in southwest Utah.
By creating the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as a wilderness area, Clinton effectively placed the area off-limits to mining, logging, road building, and any other development. This land contains one of the only known large deposits of clean-burning coal in the world — coal so low in sulfur and other pollutants it meets the strict environmental standards established during the Clinton administration by the Environmental Protection Agency. The New York Times reported that the deposits could be worth over $1 trillion.
The second-largest deposit of such coal in the world is in Indonesia, where development has been under way for several years.
Zeifman suggests there is a prima facie case for bribery — once again by Indonesia’s billionaire Riady family. The Riadys, who are suspected of spying for the Chinese government and are closely connected with Beijing (the Riadys are native Chinese, not Indonesian), stand to benefit big-time from Clinton’s executive order. China will be a major market for this clean-burning coal.
“With a stroke of his pen he wiped out the only significant competition to Indonesian coal interests in the world market,” Sarah Foster noted in 1996.
“Can’t she contact friends at Tyson? Instead of her and the bent one looking the other way while tons of chicken poop was dumped in the Arkansas river, couldn’t the same polluters be convinced to use all that chicken shiite to power methane-to-steam plants???”
You won’t have to go far to find a research grant she has funded for just the same thing.
[As I recall, Clinton designated a huge deposit of low sulphur coal, located in Utah, as a national park. ]
Absolutely. Payback for millions in contributions/Swiss bank transfers.
Wasn’t it Billy that decided the new power plants had to run on clean, cheap natural gas?
Wasn’t it Billy that decided new power plants had to run on clean, cheap natural gas??
And PRB coal is shipped by rail to Superior, WI where its loaded on steamships. Great Lakes vessels complete the trip to Detroit Edison and elsewhere east. This coal terminal does something around 20 million tons this way. There is another transhipment dock in Chicago that takes in PRB and midwest coals, sometimes blending with pet coke, to meet customers requirements.
They were doing fluidized bed combustion of Iowa coal mixed with Iowa limestone at ISU’s power plant to try to control the sulfur, mercury and ash. They might be still doing that, but it wasn’t very economical, and they ended up with huge piles of calcium carbonate/sulfate that leached the sulfur into the ground and couldn’t be mixed into concrete as they had hoped.
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