Navajo nation at odds over coal-plant plan
Members of the Navajo nation are at odds over a plan to build a $3 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant on reservation land in New Mexico. Tribal leaders say the plant -- whose juice would go to Las Vegas and Phoenix -- will generate $50 million in much-needed annual revenue and create 400 permanent jobs. But worried opponents, both within and outside the Navajo nation, say the project will pose health risks to those who live nearby, while adding to global warming. The reservation is already home to one coal-fired plant that, along with another plant nearby, has made its air among the worst in New Mexico; one critic said the federal stance amounts to "things are so bad already that you won't even notice another power plant." But coal is taking lumps around the U.S., as some recognize its drawbacks -- the nation's top 50 CO2-emitting power plants, identified on a list issued this week, are all coal-fired -- and acknowledge that "clean-coal" technology isn't ready for prime time.
source: The Daily Times, Alysa Landry, 27 Jul 2007
source: The New York Times, Felicity Barringer, 27 Jul 2007
source: The Cincinnati Post, Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Smith, 26 Jul 2007
source: Reuters, Bernie Woodall, 26 Jul 2007
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Asteroid Miner Posted 3:13 pm
27 Jul 2007
The Navajo who object are correct
Besides carbon, coal also contains:
Aluminum Chromium Molybdenum
Antimony Cobalt Nickel
Arsenic Copper Selenium
Barium Fluorine Silver
Beryllium Iron Sulfur
Boron Lead Titanium
Cadmium Magnesium Uranium
Calcium Manganese Vanadium
Chlorine Mercury Zinc
Thorium
See: http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/coalmain.htm ...
The proposed new coal burner will put 6 to 12 tons of uranium into the air every year. The above list is mostly a list of poisons. The 6 million tons of carbon will become incorporated into 22 million tons of CO2, speeding up our impending extinction. We have only 200 years before we go extinct if
we keep on burning coal. See:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00037A5D-
A938-150E-A93883414B7F0000&sc=I100322
from the October 2006 issue of Scientific American
Article: "Impact from the Deep"
I agree with the Navajo who object and demand that a nuclear power plant be built instead. I support EFN [Environmentalists for Nuclear
Energy] http://www.ecolo.org/
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