now its overrun with sierra club worshippers!
Posted on 04/24/2015 6:13:29 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The Sierra Club is turning up the heat on Minnesota's largest utilities with another advertising campaign aimed at coal-fired power plants. The ads target Minnesota Power and Xcel Energy and come, not by chance, as the utilities are developing updates to their 15-year energy plan that go to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission later this year. The television ads started Thursday and will run on cable channels in northern Minnesota and in Xcel's coverage area. As part of its "Energy Forward'' plan to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, Minnesota Power already has stopped burning coal at its Laskin plant in Hoyt Lakes and is closing one of three coal-burning units at its Taconite Harbor plant on the North Shore. But the Sierra Club says that's not enough, that the Duluth-based utility needs a workable plan to eliminate coal from its electric-generating portfolio. The group said the ongoing dependence on coal to generate electricity not only produces carbon dioxide emissions that most scientists say is causing global warming, but also mercury contamination and other air pollutants, including sulfur dioxide.
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aj yes theres nothing more uplifting to begin ones day...than another reminder of the agenda of one Baraq Hussein Obama.
“energy costs will necessarily skyrocket”
One of his many MANY statements which when examined retrospectively seems impossibly un Presidential and Un American!!
These "save the environment" groups have gotten hypocritical beyond comprehension.
JMHO
Our next Republican president should initiate his administration by reversing every part of Oblama’s two terms in office.
Cut their power off.
Its a tall order but not impossible.
When the going gets tough the tough kick butt!
the beat them silly agenda that the regime has employed since day one, often has their desired effect of at least masking these hopeful possibilities
Its a delight to actually consider that the ship o’ state can in fact be turned around before running aground.!
Call me a cockeyed optimist...
What do these tree huggers propose to replace those coal plants? If they get what they want they will not have the electricity to charge their IPads and cellphones and most Minnesotans will be shivering or sweltering in their darkened homes.
I appreciate your optimism and find it inspiring.
I live and work in an area that voted 90 percent “Obama” in the last two Presidential Elections. and that has a way of throwing a rather soggy blanket on optimisim.
As soon as the Sierra Club succeeds in eliminating coal-fired power plants, they will come after propane and natural gas.
Nothing says it better than freezing in the dark.
Living better thru no chemistry.
Dead birds found near windmills are due to a large native feral cat population.
Fried birds found near solar farms are due to the military testing secret weapons.
Minnesotans for change.
It’s what we do.
When my folks an I sailed into Oakland in 1961 after dad’s tour in Asia, California looked damned good to me.
Maybe the Sierra Club will provide fairy dust to burn for electricity.
The Sierra club is a group-birch organization of tree-hungers. I first heard of them around 1970 when they were bitching about people riding dirt bikes (motorcycles) in the woods. With them, “it’s always something”.
***The Sierra Club is turning up the heat on Minnesota’s largest utilities with another advertising campaign aimed at coal-fired power plants.***
Down here, CHESAPEAKE ENERGY (natural gas)gave the Sierra Club millions of $$$$ to lobby against coal forpower plants.
The Sierra club then lobbied against coal AND fracking for natural gas.
This is the same Sierra Club that has worked incessantly to tear down dams & stop the building of water reservoirs in California. Now, in a drought of 4 years, water needed for farming is being shunted to the Delta to help the ‘Delta Smelt’ a fish about 4 inches long, which is NOT native to California—isn’t a bait fish-—and isn’t commercially viable.
The last physical inventory taken this spring in the Delta caught up only 6——SIX-—Delta Smelt.
Millions of gallons of water each day are being taken from farmers.
While energy costs are going up up up-—food costs are also going up.
I paid $1.25 for a head of lettuce about the size of a soft ball a month ago.
“Ecology as a social principle . . . condemns cities, culture, industry, technology, the intellect, and advocates men’s return to ‘nature,’ to the state of grunting sub—animals digging the soil with their bare hands.”— Ayn Rand
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