Originally posted at the Wonk Room.
The coal industry is attempting to organize bloggers to promote their false “clean coal” propaganda. The Reality Coalition, a group of national environmental organizations, have begun airing the message that “There’s no such thing as clean coal,” to counter the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by coal-powered corporations to pretend that coal is a “clean” fuel. So the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) and Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC), essentially one coal propaganda group with two different faces, is fighting back with an email blast asking people to join their “Blogger Brigade”:
You can get into the debate. If you are interested in becoming an active member of ABEC’s Blogger Brigade just send me an e-mail to abroadhurst@balancedenergy.org and let me know you’re interested. One of our team members will give you a call and walk you through the process. It’s really easy—and for those of you who don’t already Blog, it is fun! You can join the online debate that’s already going on and you and others can remain anonymous (if you want to) at the same time! We’ll even set up a little competition to see how many Blog entries each person can make.
Notwithstanding the strange capitalization of “Blog,” this is the latest in a series of netcentric efforts from the coal public relations people. They’ve launched a Facebook page and Twitter feed, and have littered blogs with comments defending coal.
No matter how large ABEC’s “Blogger Brigade” gets, they still won’t be able to hide the toxic and dirty reality of coal—like the 500-million-gallon coal slurry disaster in Tennessee.
Now that’s something worth blogging about.
Full ABEC email at the Wonk Room.
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Jonas Posted 2:00 am
24 Dec 2008
According to James Hansen -- not a right-wing pro-coal nut -- coal with CCS is okay, but what's even more important, the development of CCS is crucial for the transition to carbon-negative bioenergy.
So what's up with the rather narrowminded rejection of the technology of carbon capture and storage?
This technology basically saves humanity's behind.
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cavecanem Posted 3:19 am
24 Dec 2008
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Pompey Road Posted 5:51 am
24 Dec 2008
Combines with Mountain top Removal and Valley Fills the Appalachian forest and streams are under the twin assault of MTR and toxic sludge ponds. I hope I can find the new pro coal blog and they will let me post. I can show them some of the nastier sides of so called clean coal.
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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Delay And Deny Posted 10:16 am
27 Dec 2008
How can us Hydrogen Bloggers and Commenters tap into the Big Cash Bonus?!
Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the Bridge. J.T.Kirk
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ThomC Posted 1:44 pm
28 Dec 2008
Most areas around power stations are not geologically suitable for storage therefore you need to build up a nationwide infrastructure of gas pipelines to transport the CO2 to the storage sites. This network would be required to be financed and built in a decade.
The energy required in capturing and transforming CO2 into a sequestrable state requires that you basically drop a retrofitted power station output significantly(http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sdissues/energy/op/ccs_egm/ ...). Consequently you need to build more power stations just to maintain the existing electrical output.
There are issues surrounding leaks and potential for ecological catastrophe if a CO2 reservoir "burped".
To date i am not aware of anyone that has demonstrated the complete process of CCS. I know that the O&G boys have been doing the storage part for EOR and that CO2 has been captured before using amines. Futuregen is a project that is looking to construct a demonstration facility but i think there are funding issues.
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