http://elynews.com/articles/2007/08/22/opinion/oped01.txt
Wow, obviously an endorsement for nuclear power, right?
Senators Byrd and Casey got anything to say about this?
Harry puts out enough wind and gas along with his cohorts in Congress, therefore he figures we don’t need no steenkin’ coal.
The Leftists like Harry never look beyond their noses for consequences.
Logic says Nuclear would be most efficient, but no...wind and gas is what you get from the Democrats.
Coal and nuclear are the only way we get weened from oil.
I now think that everyone is missing the 800lb gorilla in the room - the paper, the public, and perhaps even some public officials in White Pine County.
Those power plants have applied for a change-of-use on over 10,000 AF of water rights from ranches and farms they bought up. If Harry denies those power plants the ability to use those water rights for five years, the state can grab them back for non-use.
As a result, if Harry can delay the industrial use of those water rights long enough, the power company will simply sell the water down the pipeline to the SNWA (of which, Rory Reid, Harry’s son, is co-chair) when Pat Mulroy comes calling with the checkbook.
I think this is now about water. The coal/pollution/power business is being used as the talking point, but it isn’t Reid’s real agenda.
The solution to the problem is for Reid to go to Las Vegas and tell all the hotels and casinos to set their thermometers at 78 degrees in the summer and 68 degrees in the winter.
Thirty percent of the outdoor lighting should be curtailed and watering of grass should be reduced to zero.
The resulting drop in power consumption will provide the excess needed for thirty years. This is the green way. Power to the people!!
So why is our country investing $12 million dollars in China’s coal mine development. He talks out of both sides of his mouth.
This jerk should check with his friends and neighbors over in CA to see how well this strategy has worked for them. CA builds nothing new (other than expensive, polluting, non-baseload gas turbines) and trashes perfectly good generators (Rancho Seco, SONGS-1), and brags about "replacing" them with wind, solar, and conservation. Guess what? It didn't work. Those things can't carry the load. As a result, they get shortages, brownouts, blackouts, and sky-high prices for electricity. Real smart move there, wackos.
While not wanting to agree with Reid on anything, in 2003 while touring Norfolk Shipyards with my elderly folks, there were train tracks and machinery for loading coal in one particular area. When we inquired, the person leading the tour indicated that a high percentage of the coal that’s dug out of America is exported primarily to other countries with Italy being primary, and what we were viewing was the loading dock. As the train cars came in, the coal was loaded on the ships.
Since 65% of electricity in the US is generated by burning coal, the Dems could really trash the economy by blocking it.
In my county, the environmentalists have shot down two geothermal developments, are advocating to remove 4 hydropower dams and blocked the devlopment of a 14 Megawatt biomass plant (sent back for additional impact studies.) We also have wind to develop, but being on the Pacific Flyway, why even try.
If the environmentalists are claiming to support alternative energy sources, they lie. I have yet to see them pull for one in actual development.
Texas has canceled coal burning plants and is on its way to building nuclear plants. How about that, Harry? There is absolutely no reason that Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma should feel obliged to provide their oil and natural gas to states that do not contribute anything to the nation’s fuel supply. States that refuse to kick in what they have, CA and FL for example, should be cut off from oil and gas shipments from states that have for decades shouldered the burden of supplying energy to the parasite states. That should come to an end as Gulf supplies dwindle.