Posted on 07/20/2011 2:26:57 PM PDT by CharlyFord
ERCOT’s May11 report to the Public Utility Commission on the impact of the proposed environmental regulations did not address the impact of SO2 restrictions on coal plants in ERCOT because these restrictions on Texas were not included as part of the EPA’s earlier rule proposal. We have not had time to fully analyze the entire 1,323-page Cross-State Rule released July 7 or to communicate with the generation owners regarding what their intentions will be. However, initial implications are that the SO2 requirements for Texas added at the last stage of the rule development will have a significant impact on coal generation, which provided 40 percent of the electricity consumed in ERCOT in 2010.
Our concern is that the timing of the new requirements – effective Jan. 1, 2012 – is unreasonable because it does not allow enough time to implement operational responses to ensure reliability. We fear that many of the coal plants in ERCOT will be forced to limit or shut down operations in order to maintain compliance with the new rule, possibly leading to inadequate operating reserve margins with insufficient time to reliably retrofit existing generation or build new, replacement generation.
(Excerpt) Read more at ercot.com ...
When does this stupidity end?!?!?!
Hopefully, when Barack Obama is out of office. Very hopefully.
I don’t think this has anything to do with what Congress has dome recently. This is the EPA making up new rules under the old Clean Air Act.
Unelected Bureaucrats are running the nation and your states, folks...wake up....
Presidents issue executive orders and poof it becomes law. What if Gov. Perry said, “NO!” to the EPA? What’s their recourse?
Texas has long been penalized for air pollution originating in Mexico, or farther south.
Gas had to be specially formulated for many Texas Cities, because they exceeded trigger levels of pollutants, again originating elsewhere. Also speed limits in counties adjoining those cities were ordered lower.
“Congress had to pass the legislation before we could have a look at it’s impact “
Kinda like a stool sample?
The "clean air transport rule," which EPA has renamed the "cross-state air pollution rule," replaces a set of 2005 Bush administration regulations that were struck down by the courts.
So, this last minute rule change was a stunt by the Obama Administration. Thanks for pointing it out.
If we lose 40% of our power and cannot have A/C in the summer, there WILL be a revolution in the streets.
Hmm ~ bet that means Texas can’t ship any more power to California.
Has anyone done a study on the number of birds killed by those monster sized windmills? I’ll bet it would make an eye catching video. Picture those blades slicing up a flock of geese. If not during the day, I could see it happening at night.
Think BATS! They don’t even have to strike the blades. Many stories here.
Bambi the Brownout
So when is the EPA going to shut down China’s power plants for all that pollution that is drifting over the Pacific to the west coast?
Now that the case against activist judging has been won (with many dead-ender activist judges still on the bench) I believe the next phrase that enters our conversations about confirmation will be “Nondelegation”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine
“In an increasingly complex society, Congress obviously could not perform its functions if it were obliged to find all the facts subsidiary to the basic conclusions which support the defined legislative policy in fixing, for example, a tariff rate, a railroad rate, or the rate of wages to be applied in particular industries by a minimum wage law. The Constitution, viewed as a continuously operative charter of government, is not to be interpreted as demanding the impossible or the impracticable. The essentials of the legislative function are the determination of the legislative policy, and its formulation as a rule of conduct. Those essentials are preserved when Congress specifies the basic conclusions of fact upon ascertainment of which, from relevant data by a designated administrative agency, it ordains that its statutory command is to be effective.”
http://supreme.justia.com/us/312/126/case.html#145
Just as judges can’t act on their own, presidents should not have the discretion to make laws on their own. It’s not our “society” that is too complex but our laws.
Was it written by kids with crayons in big letters?
On the other hand, that's only 26.47 pages for each state (23.2 pages each if you think we have 57 states).
Mark
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