Yesterday the governor of South Carolina—yes, South Carolina—announced that he is opposing construction of a new coal plant in his state.
Why? Because a weak economy has demand down, the cost of coal has nearly tripled, and the prospect of tougher mercury and CO2 regulations from the Obama administration threaten to as much as double the cost of the project.
Because it’s an economic turkey, in other words.
The head of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources also came out in opposition, citing worries about mercury pollution in fish and increased CO2 emissions.
This comes a few days after Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle announced that the UW power plant would eliminate coal (replacing it with biomass) by 2012.
And that was about a week after Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm’s state of the state address, wherein she outlined a plan to free her state from coal. (Technically, reduce reliance on coal electricity by 45% by 2020.)
Governors in South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan, all working to free their states from the grip of the enemy of the human race.
Dirty friggin’ hippies!
Another coal plant bites the dust
Blowing up our clean energy future
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Pompey Road Posted 7:20 am
12 Feb 2009
Was just cruzzin the ol environmental site looking for some good humus soil fertilizer for my pot patch and scoped out the dirty friggen hippy remark.
Got some righteous herb growing down in Ky but the damn coal corporations are getting into Kentucky's number one cash crop. The Ky gov and the W,Va gov ain't exactly Herb friendly but they ain't coal haters either. We try to plant between the trees but trees are getting scarce as beads and roman sandals down here. This flat mountain top crap ain't makin it dude! Feds snagged my last crop of Cambodian Red, all I got was the buds. Just to damn easy to land them DEA choppers on these flattened out mountain tops and no where to plant by weed but national forest land. Damn feds are even letting them strip there now so guess we will have to check out this Carolina thing.
Say man, do you know how far the Smokies run down into Carolina? Sorry bout the typo's man but I got cookie crumbs down in my keyboard, had the munchies bad then I saw this friggin hippie thing
Lighten up bro,
Plant a herb instead of a tree, it may not suck up as much co2 but it takes the edge off this global warming thing. Time is not relevant when you're token, last 30 years seemed like forever!
Hey man what time is it? Bummer dude, I think I just asked that!!!!!
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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