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/