Posted on 05/29/2009 9:14:53 PM PDT by george76
If Boulder is serious about meeting the goal it set in 2002 when city leaders agreed to meet the Kyoto Protocol -- reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels -- it's time for city officials to play hardball in their negotiations with Xcel Energy.
That's the message a group of business, community and environmental leaders hope to convey to the Boulder City Council on Monday when they meet at the Stazio Ballfields to listen to speakers rally the crowd from a pile of faux coal.
With the slender towers of the Valmont Coal Plant as a backdrop, the group plans to deliver an open letter to the city with a simple message: Failure to meet Kyoto is not an option.
Boulder does not own its own utility like many larger cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, so city leaders rarely have much control over where the electricity provided to Boulder comes from. Instead, the city has a franchise agreement with Xcel Energy.
Now, the city is in the process of renegotiating its agreement with Xcel...
The current contract with Xcel expires in August 2010.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
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When these protesters give up electricity and cars, and live in caves, I might listen to them. Until then, they are hypocrites.
The power plant should simply give them what they are asking for.....cut the power off for a couple days...
I was just going to suggest that.
Wouldn’t it be fun if Xcel Energy played “hardball” and just closed everything down and stopped providing electricity to these idiots?
Offer a nuke instead.
Xcel Energy should call their bluff
Coal is very clean and efficient. In fact, we have more coal than there are oil in Middle East. This come to show how smart they are.
Absolutely!! They should do exactly that.
It’s clean unless you think something essential to plant growth is a “pollutant,” carbon dioxide. Maybe we should get the biggest greenhouse gas named another pollutant, water.
In addition, charge them for the new "carbon tax" to offset the CO2 from the power they are receiving from a coal based plant. If they want to play the stupid liberal game, let them have a full salvo.
Ground burst or air burst?
my thoughts exactly. the power company should just have a press conference and say “ these people say we are destroying the planet with our coal powered plants and we must stop, so we’re stopping. have a nice day, and call us when the idiots shut up and sit down.
Save for the science and engineering departments of CU in Boulder, the rest of the libarts loons in that looser city wouldn’t be able to define a watt, let along generate one.
They don’t offer viable solutions for the world we live in.
I’m reminded of when people in peurto rico complained about the bombing range......then complained at the loss of income with it stopped getting used....
Same thing in the EU...they complained about our bases...then complained when we closed a couple of them...
idiots.
Surprise me.
Only if they can do it selectively. My conservative 85 yr old parents would be hit hard.
Buy them a natual gas generator...they can be installed for around 3 grand.
Or invite them to move in with you.
What losers, I don't even know if I could engage in a civil conversation with these people.
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