Power Plant Rejected Over Carbon Dioxide For First Time (Global Warming issue)

Washington Post ^ | October 19, 2007 | Steven Mufson

[bobsunshine]

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit for a proposed coal-fired electricity generating plant, saying that the greenhouse gas threatens public health and the environment.

The decision marks a victory for environmental groups that are fighting proposals for new coal-fired plants around the country. It may be the first of a series of similar state actions inspired by a Supreme Court decision in April that asserted that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide should be considered pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

In the past, air permits, which are required before construction of combustion facilities, have been denied over emissions such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury. But Roderick L. Bremby, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said yesterday that "it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing."

The Kansas agency's decision caps a controversy over a proposal by Sunflower Electric Power, a rural electrical cooperative, to build a pair of big, 700-megawatt, coal-fired plants in Holcomb, a town in the western part of the state, at a cost of about $3.6 billion. One unit would have supplied power to parts of Kansas; the other, to be owned by another rural co-op, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, would have provided electricity to fast-growing eastern Colorado.

[goldstategop]

The Left wants to take us back to the Dark Ages - no heat, no light, no air conditioning and no reliable power supply. Global warming is a hoax - this is their true agenda.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[finnman69]

We are truly screwed.

[Always Right]

The decision marks a victory for environmental groups that are fighting proposals for new coal-fired plants around the country.

The loons are running the asylums.

[NewHampshireDuo]

People who truly believe that power plants are endangering ol’ mumsie earth should be denied electricity, heating oil and gasoline. Let them use candles (woops, they emit CO2 also) and bicycles.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

But Roderick L. Bremby, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said yesterday that "it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing."

There is a direct connect between the live you live and the leaders you elect. Don't you know here is Massachusetts, the elite disapproved the Cape Wind Project, totally greenhouse gas free. My suggestion, if you need heat this winter, dismantle the elite's homes and use it for kindling.

[Sword_Svalbardt]

The precedent for stupidy happened when Al Boring received his Nobel prize for being a Moron.

[festus]

Next we'll ban Bovine Flatulence......

[NicknamedBob]

The phrase, “What’s the matter with Kansas?” now has a definitive answer.

[eyedigress]

Kansas needs to take it furthur and make it illegal to purchase power from outside the state, citing the same reason. That will be a wake up call during brownouts. Idiots

[finnman69]

let them run everything on ethanol which takes as much fuel to rpoduce as it generates

[GregoryFul]

The bicycle rider emits lots of extra CO2 - they should be prohibited.

[GregoryFul]

Each pound of ethanol produced makes a pound of CO2 in the fermentation process.

[Left2Right]

It's a good thing that they are trying to limit CO2 emissions. Already, CO2 is nearly .38% of our atmosphere, so this is something we really need to be worried about. This is cereal.

/sarcasm off

[Mr_Moonlight]

Let them use candles (woops, they emit CO2 also) and bicycles.

Whoops, bicycles do also .. well not the bicycle itself, but the rider huffing and puffing to propel it

[rbg81]

Lets see....no nuclear, no coal, no hydro (gets in the way of salmon migrations), .... On top of that, more people (illegals). So more people + a cap on new energy means less electricity—right? Of course, what the really want is higher taxes—not less energy. People will be able to get their energy from coal, as long as they pay special carbon taxes.

[DrGunsforHands]

This is literally the dumbest decision I have ever heard. Here's why: Sunflower, which already has a smaller coal-fired plant in Holcomb, has portrayed the proposed plants as part of a "bio-energy center" that would include an ethanol plant and an $86 million facility that would use a still-experimental algae process to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the proposed generating units. But one investor in the center had pulled out before yesterday's decision. They took into consideration the carbon dioxide and provided a means for dealing with it! How retarded can these people be? Not only would the algae capture CO2 and mercury and pollution, but the algae would produce oxygen and the excess of the continuously growing algae could be collected and used to produce ethanol! It's the most ingenious system ever developed for producing cheap, clean power, and they just ignore it because it's "experimental". I'm so angry right now, that I feel that I might at any moment burst into flames. How could they be this stupid!?! ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

OK. Build nuclear power plants then.

[Wheee The People]

Replace it with a nuclear power plant.

[isrul]

Actually, it would be more beneficial to lock them in asylums. It’s time for the sane folks to declare “the debate is over”.