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Enviro-lawsuit forces five Indiana coal plants to shut down
Daily Caller ^ | 8/30/2013 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 09/02/2013 8:03:39 AM PDT by kevcol

The “war on coal” has five new casualties.

A lawsuit brought by environmental groups has forced the shutdown of five Indiana coal-fired power plants by 2018, totalling 668 megawatts of power.
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“While today’s settlement is a step in the right direction, more must be done to ensure that Hoosier families are protected from rising energy bills and the enormous health threats posed by Indiana’s reliance on coal-fired power plants,” said Jodi Perras with the Sierra Club’s anti-coal campaign.

The Sierra Club and other environmental groups have been targeting coal plants nationwide for retirement, which they say contribute to global warming and cause health problems.

As part of the settlement, Duke Energy also agreed to create a feed-in tariff program to purchase at least 30 megawatts of solar power from Indiana customers or buy or install 15 megawatts of green power capacity.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: coal; coalplants; dukeenergy; epa; epaoutofcontrol; globalwarming; greenenergy; greens; sierrraclub; waroncoal
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1 posted on 09/02/2013 8:03:39 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

So where are the unwashed masses going to plug in the “smart” cars and “smart” phones? This doesn’t seem very “smart” to me.


2 posted on 09/02/2013 8:05:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The time for impeachment has come.)
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To: kevcol

Hope those enviro-whacko’s freeze in the dark this winter.


3 posted on 09/02/2013 8:06:35 AM PDT by SkyDancer (A white woman would be accused of racism if she gave birth to a white baby.)
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To: kevcol
more must be done to ensure that Hoosier families are protected from rising energy bills so we're cutting supply that will raise the costs!!! wait, what?
4 posted on 09/02/2013 8:12:07 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: kevcol
Well hell YEAH y'protected me from rising energy costs ... you took ALL energy away from me ..... until you get an alternative source for me.

No ... take your time

I can wait ...

5 posted on 09/02/2013 8:15:12 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: kevcol

Obama keeps another campaign promise to the Doofus Demographic

He promised to shut down the coal industry but the Doofus Demographic didn’t listen.

He promised unspecified “Change” but didn’t say it would all be bad.
So the Doofus Demographic mistakenly assumed it would be positive - things they would like.

He promised to focus on the economy.
The Doofus Demographic mistakenly assumed he meant he meant he would improve it.

He promised he would focus on job creation - and he is.
Butthe Doofus Demographic didn’t think he meant he would do his best to stifle and reduce creation of jobs.


6 posted on 09/02/2013 8:17:34 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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To: kevcol

How long until all the coal miners and their families start targeting the “environmentals”. I seem to recall coal miners being pretty aggressive protecting their jobs in the past.


7 posted on 09/02/2013 8:19:01 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: kevcol

Isn’t it time for the coal miner’s union to start terminating Sierra Club members and burning their facilities? What good is a union that can’t bring targeted violence to bear? < /sarc >


8 posted on 09/02/2013 8:20:06 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: kevcol

Guess Who Voted For Obama.....


9 posted on 09/02/2013 8:20:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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re: ““While today’s settlement is a step in the right direction, more must be done to ensure that Hoosier families are protected from rising energy bills and the enormous health threats posed by Indiana’s reliance on coal-fired power plants,” said Jodi Perras with the Sierra Club’s anti-coal campaign.”

What a bunch of bald-faced liars these guys are!!

“. . . ensure that Hoosier families are protected from rising energy bills and the enormous health threats posed by Indiana’s reliance on coal-fired power plants,” ???

What do they think is going to happen to energy costs for families by closing these 8 plants?? And, what about the loss of all those jobs?? Lord, Above, He told us not to hate our enemies, but sometimes. . .


10 posted on 09/02/2013 8:34:49 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: rusty schucklefurd
The doublespeak perfected by the Clintons.
11 posted on 09/02/2013 8:36:08 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Chode

Clearly, the “greenies” have a different method of “accounting” than is popularly employed by those who actually use numbers in their calculations. Shutting down coal plants, without an adequate and relatively inexpensive alternative, is spitting into the wind - it will come back and spatter all over your own face.

There is a quick fix, NOT involving all this artificially supported and ineffective “renewable energy” sources like wind or solar power, that is reliable, adaptable to shifting load demands, and of which the technology already exists. Natural-gas fired turbines can be spooled up and running on line in only minutes in times of heavy demand, or cut out as the load slackens, and they use a readily available and mostly less expensive energy source, natural gas. For standby purposes they are nearly perfect, and would have to be built ANYWAY if the “renewable energy” sources are widely adopted, as these so-called “green alternatives” have not shown much in the way of either flexibility or reliability.

So just cut out the double expense, and never even build the “renewable energy” wind and/or solar plants. Except for very specialized applications, that technology is pretty much a dead end.

But for long-term supply of power for the base loads, Nuclear power generation is the standard for reliability and minimal fuel costs. However, the technology is based on the “burning” of uranium as the power source, when any rational thinker would consider the application of thorium-based nuclear reactors as a much more cost-effective and far less troublesome technology. For one thing, the presence of thorium is much more wide-spread than uranium, and the “spent” fuel takes up far less volume of space that the profusion of “spent” uranium fuel rods. Even more useful, the thorium reactors are capable of using the untapped energy that remains in the “spent” uranium rods, through a breeder reaction, and thus consume the ever-growing stockpile of atomic “waste” that now limits the further application of nuclear power generation.

The technology already exists, and development has reached the stage of industrial application. What is missing is the will to cast off all the superstitious fear and get on with the business of generating adequate power to sustain a growing civilization.


12 posted on 09/02/2013 8:36:48 AM PDT by alloysteel (Unattended children will be given a Red Bull and a free Kazoo. Reminds me of Congress...)
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I totally agree with your assessment, alloysteel. Great post.


13 posted on 09/02/2013 8:43:41 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: kevcol
We are fighting for our lives to keep Big Blow from covering 80% of our county with 50 story high Industrial Wind Turbines that these Green Bastards will never have to live around.

This is 12 miles from my house, and if we don't get the German Owned companies stopped, they will be within a mile of my house too

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14 posted on 09/02/2013 8:44:52 AM PDT by digger48
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To: alloysteel

15 megawatts of “renewable” energy to replace 668 of coal fired. Sounds like a fair trade to me. Here’s a question for the greenies: How much energy does that endless forest of windmills in northern Indiana produce (when they are running)?


15 posted on 09/02/2013 8:49:43 AM PDT by anoldafvet
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To: kevcol

I’m so sick of environmentalists. These people want us to decrease our standard of living. They won’t be happy until every home uses a latrine and we cook our meals on an open fire. Oh, wait a minute. All of those human wastes might seep deeper into the ground and contaminate our groundwater supplies. Building fires means we would be cutting down too many trees and destroying forests. Not to mention the CO2 threat we’d be creating with all of these fires. I’m being silly here but who doesn’t think the average, whacked-out environmental kook doesn’t have ideas like that? The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the others want the destruction of the industrialized world and they want to create an environmentally sustainable version of Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia.


16 posted on 09/02/2013 8:59:31 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: kevcol

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls our climates.

3. The earth is a rock.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


17 posted on 09/02/2013 9:00:07 AM PDT by abclily
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To: alloysteel
100%... Pebble-Bed reactors are the way to go
18 posted on 09/02/2013 9:01:09 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: abclily
Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

About the size of Mickey Rooney.

19 posted on 09/02/2013 9:01:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Look, all they have to do is convert these coal plants to electric plants. Electricity is clean and abundant. They can simply run these power plants off electricity.

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20 posted on 09/02/2013 9:05:19 AM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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