The fight against coal is spilling out of the "environmental" box the coal industry wants to keep it in:
An increasingly vocal, potent and widespread anti-coal movement is developing [across the West]. Environmental groups that have long opposed new power plants are being joined by ranchers, farmers, retired homeowners, ski resort operators and even religious groups.
Activists say the increasing diversity of these coalitions is making them more effective.
"You're seeing a convergence of people who previously never worked together or even talked to each other," said Anne Hedges, program director of the Montana Environmental Information Center, which is spearheading three lawsuits aimed at blocking construction of the power plant near Great Falls. "They're saying these coal plants don't make any sense, whether from an economic or environmental or property-rights standpoint."
Also check out this great graphic showing the ruin that coal plants would bring us if we build as many as projected.
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chemrat Posted 4:58 pm
21 Oct 2007
We can't have our cake and eat it too, and blaming all of our problems on the big bad companies just doesn't deal with many of the core issues (like unchecked resource wasting by large parts of the world, but mostly the USA).
And if you reject coal and petroleum and biodiesel (and I too reject some forms of all of these, just not all forms), what is going to power your HDTV, satellite dish and quad-core Pentium computer? Not solar, wind and hydroelectric, they are usually minor though important additions, or are local, or are unreliable, or require large capital investment (and kill birds), etc. You are going down a path where nuclear energy is all that is left, and that I am against in all forms.
So, how about No More Over-simplistic Solutions? Not as sexy as No More Nukes, but it might get us somewhere. http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com/
Jim Bashkin aka chemrat aka nearlynothingbutnovels
http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com
http://nearlynothingbutnovels.blogspot.com/
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theBike45 Posted 10:22 pm
21 Oct 2007
power," thereby making large base-load coal plants the only alternative. Those ignorant do-gooders, by causing the substitution of coal for nuclear power, are PRIMARILLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ELEVATED LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON. Only one guy - one of Greenpeace's original founders, has had the guts to admit he was wrong and become an advocate of the only practical and significant source of energy we have. Those others, time-warped in the 1970's (like unreliable fat Albert)
keep pushing their silly conservation solutions and oh, yes, useless windmills.
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Steve Erickson Posted 6:08 am
22 Oct 2007
Steve E.
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