Posted on 06/22/2012 4:58:41 AM PDT by wita
EPA proposes greenhouse gas rule for new coal-based power plants On March 27, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed its New Source Performance Standard (NSPS), a long-delayed proposed regulation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from coal-based power plants.
The new rule requires coal-based generating sources to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, which is a level met by natural gas-combined cycle power plants. Conventional lignite-based plants produce more than twice that amount. The proposed rule, which goes into immediate effect, means any new lignite-based plants would be required to install technology to capture CO2.
While EPA said the rule targets new plants and is not intended to affect existing facilities, critics of the new rule are concerned plant modifications required by other EPA rules will be deemed “major” and expose those operations to new source review requirements, including this greenhouse gas standard.
The Lignite Energy Council, a trade association representing the lignite mines and power plants in North Dakota, will have 60 days to file comments on the rule, once it is published in the Federal Register.
Quotable Quote “This amounts to a de facto ban on new construction of conventional coal-fired power plants and threatens an essential component of the future U.S. energy mix.” — U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue referring to EPA’s NSPS rule, the Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants.
Now where do you suppose the Congress is on this?
Sure is quiet around here.
Unfortunately the local coop doesn't put their newsletter on the web. The article was superb, spelling out just what a disaster this ruling would be for energy prices, and amounts to choosing natural gas as the defacto energy source for the future.
Bottom line is three days left for public comment to the EPA.
Worse than that, within three years, whenever a coal plant is shut down for maintenance, the RATS in the EPA will force the standard and shut them down for good.
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Worse than that, within three years, whenever a coal plant is shut down for maintenance, the RATS in the EPA will force the standard and shut them down for good.
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unproven carbon sequestering is a holdover from the radical global warming movement, and has no precedence other than a really stupid way to spend money that incidentally we seem to be a little short of.
Worse than that, within three years, whenever a coal plant is shut down for maintenance, the RATS in the EPA will force the standard and shut them down for good.
Followed shortly thereafter by the squeals of the less well off as they try to pay for that which government will be forced to give them, or they will freeze in the dark.
Meanwhile the rest of us...
The problem is there is none being made anywhere, and never has been.
That doesn't matter to Obumbles Nazi EPA, they still get fined.
Hopefully, the Lefties on the east coast won’t be able to afford heat and light this winter. Maybe they can burn driftwood and seabirds along the Atlantic coast.
That doesn’t matter to Obumbles Nazi EPA, they still get fined.
Don’t know if you listened to Rush yesterday, but after what I heard I have a whole new view of Govt. bureaucracy.
I’m now completely in the E L I M I N A T I O N mode as the only viable solution to their misuse of bureaucratic license.
Denny Hastert, Tom Delay and a variety of senators knew the Supreme Court would let EPA do anything - unless congress changed the laws, but that did not happen and to make matters worse neither did GWB.
It may take longer than one winter, but the elimination of coal fired power plants will sooner rather than later result in reduced capacity on the grid and much higher prices at the pump, so to speak. Just in my little area over 80 MegaWatts of capacity is already scheduled for shutdown.
I’m leaning towards a bureau of unintended consequences as the only bureaucracy worth of the name.
“I saw a report yesterday that the EPA is fining gasoline refiners for not blending fuel that contains ethanol made from ‘grass-tree bark-unicorn farts-etc’”
Cellulosic ethanol process is the process demanded by the EPA and they were issuing fines for not producing blended fuels until the refiners finally grew a set. Albeit a very small set.
This is the ethanol process with another step required for an already highly subsidized process. At this time, this process is impossible without high subsidies and the all so typical poor fuel mileage of E-10 ethanol/gas garbage.
Various sources of cellulose (wood, grasses, vines, non-food parts of crops like corn stalks, etc.) are exposed to enzymes which attempt to break down the small amounts of starch into sugars so that the conventional sugar to ethanol distillation process can take place.
Getting, or creating the right enzymes seems to be the problem.
The communists attempting to destroy us in the EPA demanded cellulosic ethanol process be used yet not a drop has been made commercially. Small amounts have been created but as of yet nothing which would allow the construction of an industrial size operation.
Right now the EPA is structured to do more damage to us than anything else O’Blame-o and his comrades can do.
NOTE: A woman who used to work for me as our environmental engineer was looking for a job with the EPA and found a listing looking for approx 200 (not positive of the number but it was in the hundreds) environmental engineers with pistol permits.
I wonder what sort of pollution the EPA is worried about which requires a pistol permit. Maybe they are expecting us to fight back! That is a fight we need to win and win big.
Sorry, I need to shout: PLANTS BREATHE IN CO2 you idiots!!!
I wonder what sort of pollution the EPA is worried about which requires a pistol permit. Maybe they are expecting us to fight back! That is a fight we need to win and win big.
History repeating
When the USSR collapsed the Russian tax department was hiring ex-soldiers as tax collectors...
their excuse was that "they were familiar with heavy weapons"
They since junked the complex tax code for a straight 13%.
Here is a nice video to contemplate "history repeating" this Friday
enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_1tCasi_Q
The god’s of global warming are propped up by their loyal followers. It is literally impossible to fathom where those followers got their scientific education. IIRC, isn’t CO2 a really small portion of the atmosphere and a very unlikely player in the environmental disasters they foresee. And of course as you say, the more there is the more our plants like it.
but don’t you love it when a plan comes together.
An old TV liberal used to say “what’s not to love”.
Frankly Scarlett, the fewer plans coming together, the safer we might all be.
I almost wish the stone age to return so the fittest survive.
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