Posted on 05/11/2012 11:28:21 AM PDT by Nachum
In obscure, blue-collar towns across Appalachia -- places that most Americans have never seen -- generations of coal miners have toiled away at back-breaking labor to power American homes and industry. Now, as many as 200,000 of them who dig, process, transport and burn America's most abundant fuel are threatened by EPA's latest coal rule.
It imposes a standard for emissions that is all but impossible for many plants to meet. It requires coal-fired plants to release no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour.
The only means for many older plants to attain that standard is to install what is known as carbon capture and storage technology. But that's expensive and not commercially available.
"At the end of the day, we just couldn't justify it based upon what that cost would be," says Mark Durbin of First Energy, which owns the Willow Island Power Station in Albright, W.Va., "It would be astronomical to try and retrofit some of older units that really are not as efficient as they should be." Environmentalists are praising the new rule as a vital defense against climate change.
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Carbon dioxide is plant food, as necessary to sustaining vegetation growth as oxygen is to sustaining human and animal life.
/src on/Everybody knows Appalachia is populated with racist red necks. Who cares what happens to them as long as the environment is protected./src off/
Candidate obama promised this. His supporters refused to believe it.
Let them eat health care.
Most of them have also consistently voted for the Dems because of unionization. Just like the rest of the unionized manufacturing base they are getting what they deserve.
I don’t get why any person employed in manufacturing or natural resources extraction/mining would ever vote for a Dem.
Too bad the rest of us must pay the price.
I’m here in the “Paris of Appalachia”. I grieve for the folks who are going to be impoverished by this rule, but seriously - they all, nearly to a man, voted for this.
They drank the Kool Aid at the local hall of the UMWA, Teamsters, IBEW, etc. They supported this clown and all of his Communist minions. Trumka, born in Nemacolin, PA, came up in and led the UMWA. Elected president of the AFL-CIO in Pittsburgh, PA. This is the heart of all of it. He has sacrificed his union brothers on the Obeyme altar. He tossed them all away like a used condom.
Self-inflicted wounds.
At least now they seem to have woken up. I remember one long time Democratic Congressman from southwest VA was defeated in 2010. See what happens in WV this year with the Senate race.
Since our working people have to go to such extraordinary lengths to comply. The EPA should have to issue edicts from the deck of the Titanic.
“Let them eat health care.”
Nope!!!! Pre-existing conditions. Take an aspirin and go home and watch Will and Grace.
He said, “you can burn coal if you want to, but if you do, you’ll go bankrupt”. They voted for him any way.
No sympathy for any of them. Back in ‘08 after Hussein proclaimed he was shutting down coal mining, the miner’s union’s website homepage ( http://www.umwa.org/ ) was an endorsement for Hussein.
But on the bright side, they have HOPE.
No problem! They can collect 79 weeks of unemployment!
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Don’t know what they’ll do after that.
This is why an unknown federal inmate got over 40% of the vote in the WV Democratic primary on Tuesday.
“Let them eat health care.”
Nope!!!! Pre-existing conditions. Take an aspirin and go home and watch Will and Grace.
What will be the last straw.... and what will it bring?
If our Founding Fathers were here today, what would they do?
I would have voted for Newt....
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