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| Enviro Wackos Brag About Closing 100 Coal Energy Plants, Preventing 166 Replacements |
| 2012-03-11 |
| On February 29, Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, penned a post celebrating the 100th closure of a coal-fueled power plant: Chicago's Crawford plant. He also boasts that the group's efforts have prevented 166 new coal-fueled power plants. Power plants throughout the country are being closed because of onerous regulations being mandated by the EPA. Not only are the EPA regulations aggressive, they are also invasive. The EPA wants a specific technology that will cost the ratepayers ten times more than similar technologies. On March 2, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver denied the request to put the new regulations on hold while the appeal is being considered. Environmental groups believe the consumers have been "getting a free ride because the cost of electricity from these plants is artificially low." With the Administration's permission, the environmentalists have a stranglehold on American energy policy. They are not apt to delay implementation. The EPA is pushing these regulations now because if President Obama does not get reelected, the Republican president will delay indefinitely or repeal the regulations altogether. The big question is who is selling the "specific technology" the EPA is demanding? I'd start with a list of OfA, DNC and Obama 2012 bundlers and work from there... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 Follow the FutureGen $1 Billion dollars in Illinois. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-03-11 16:31 |