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Reid tells four companies no coal power in Nevada
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 7/26/07 | Bernie Woodall

Posted on 07/26/2007 7:56:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge

Sounds like harry, his sons, and their mob friends are sucking around for a juicy bribe. The FBI needs to send a couple of “power company lobbyists” to his office with a suitcase full of money and a hidden camera.


21 posted on 07/26/2007 8:14:45 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: NormsRevenge

i love democrats! /s

they don’t want us to fight the wot and to maintain troops in the major oil producing area,

they don’t want us to build nuclear,

they don’t want us to build coal burning plants,

they don’t want us to drill in alaska,

they don’t want us to drill off shore in ca or the gulf,

they don’t want us to drill for gas in new mexico,

they don’t want us to use oil shale in colorado,

they don’t want us to build wind generating plants off of cape cod—it might spoil ted kennedy’s view,

meanwhile these “environmentalists” travel the globe, leaving no stone unturned,

often they are seen in suv’s, and they drive around in their cars. even their prius take more energy to produce than they save.


22 posted on 07/26/2007 8:20:17 PM PDT by ken21 ( b 4 fred.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I smell rats. Seriously, does anybody really think that a democrat senator would do *anything* for principle?

So what’s in it for Harry? Perhaps he or his buddies have invested in some coal plant company that uses a cleaner burning, but more expensive system, like a plasma furnace, and he doesn’t want competition in the State. Maybe he is invested up to his eyebrows in gas burning plants. Maybe he wants to stick it to the coal mining companies or the railroads.

Whatever, I give you odds that dirty Harry has an angle.

He, like his comrades, have no more principles than perverted priests at a Cub Scout camp.


23 posted on 07/26/2007 8:22:31 PM PDT by Popocatapetl
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To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like a wonderful opportunity for an experiment. Let all current fossil fuel energy developers stop building plants in Nevada and stop selling Nevada power from outside the state. Then, let the renewable energy companies come in and solve the problem. See how long it takes, how much it costs, and how happy a lot of people are when they have no electricity.

Wonderful opportunity to observe the consequences. Pass the popcorn.

24 posted on 07/26/2007 8:22:37 PM PDT by weaponeer
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To: NormsRevenge
(Reid's letter) is probably not reflective of reality

To say the least.

The most infuriating thing is that the rolling blackouts that are sure to come as an inevitable consequence of this lunatic policy will not be blamed on Reid or his caucus by the media.

Still, we should file idiotic statements like these away for the days of the energy shortages that are sure to come.

25 posted on 07/26/2007 8:23:09 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: NormsRevenge

Dingy is a tool. Actually, a box of tools.


26 posted on 07/26/2007 8:27:59 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Popocatapetl
Well, there IS a new powerplant being constructed by Newmont Gold (mining company) in NE Nevada. Any electricity being generated above and beyond Newmont's needs are supposedly to be sold to the grid for public use. I'll have to check, but it may be a coal-fired plant. It's about 70% finished IIRC.
Makes ya think....
27 posted on 07/26/2007 8:42:23 PM PDT by thescourged1
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To: NormsRevenge

Well we can always burn oil. When is America going to wake up to the real enemy??

Pray for W and Our Troops


28 posted on 07/26/2007 8:45:36 PM PDT by bray (Member of the FR President Bush underground)
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To: NormsRevenge
Above is an artist's rendering of the new coal-powered electric generation station that Sierra Pacific Resources plans to build just north of Ely, Nevada. Rather innocuous, wouldn't you say?
29 posted on 07/26/2007 8:59:28 PM PDT by trane250
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To: Brilliant
Good. Won’t have to worry about business competition from Nevada.

Coal fired power plants are also under attack in Florida.

30 posted on 07/26/2007 9:15:17 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: NormsRevenge

Just a thought...Curious actually...If there is a showdown over insufficient electrical power in Las Vegas. Who would win? Las Vegas or Harry Reid?


31 posted on 07/26/2007 9:32:09 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Exactly...dems are just going insane. Pick a reputable power source or shutup, dems!


32 posted on 07/26/2007 9:43:00 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (The Anti-Federalists failed....so will the Anti-Frederalists)
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To: NormsRevenge

Unless he passes a law against it, he should go fly a kite.


33 posted on 07/26/2007 9:45:04 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: paul51

California can’t build nuke power plants. Only if the final waste repository is working.


34 posted on 07/26/2007 9:51:05 PM PDT by Danbert
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To: Popocatapetl
Whatever, I give you odds that dirty Harry has an angle.

He probably owns or controls land where they want to build. They haven't paid him enough to shutdown his demagoguery.

35 posted on 07/26/2007 9:59:18 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: listenhillary

Ding, Ding, Ding, no more calls please, we have a winner.


36 posted on 07/26/2007 10:03:21 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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To: NormsRevenge
"He also opposes nuclear power for Nevada and the Yucca Mountain site in the state for storage of nuclear waste."

What an idiot. I guess that means he's opposed to any new growth in Nevada as well. Maybe all those casino's can change to super bright LED lights to conserve energy, and put up a few windmills and solar panels - While he's at it, why doesn't he mandate that all new families moving to Nevada live in a earthen home and milk goats for sustenance?

37 posted on 07/26/2007 10:31:03 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: NormsRevenge

The dems are against anything good. Such as a good economy. Or the average person being able to easily afford electricity; one of the miracles this nation has been able to provide.

Anything destructive the dems are for.


38 posted on 07/26/2007 10:42:30 PM PDT by ran20
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To: trane250

Not if you saw the valley where they’re putting it in person, or the perfectly good, productive ranches they’re going to dry up to get the 24,000 acre-feet of underground water for their cooling.

Given that all these coal-fired projects are planning on selling their power to (ultimately) California, I say build them in California. Why should Nevadans have to suffer reduced air quality, diversion of precious water resources and see increased transmission lines across our landscapes to allow the idiots in California to light their McMansions?


39 posted on 07/27/2007 12:17:40 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: Nathan Zachary

I’d be quite happy if most of the people who have moved to Nevada in the last 10 years moved right back out. The cost of the growth is killing us. We don’t have the water, the clowns moving in don’t add to the tax rolls, they only take, as a result a very conservative state is quickly turning liberal, and we’re being overrun with the same nanny-state types one sees in California and the northeast.

Send ‘em packing. Good riddance.


40 posted on 07/27/2007 12:19:40 AM PDT by NVDave
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