Posted on 07/10/2012 2:10:04 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Bastard.
Hope the people that lost their jobs remembers this on November 6th.
Where is the company located?...........
Romney needs to USE this situation and others like it. (Mitt, come on, use some of that business savvy to fight this goof)
Energy & Environment
Senate kills effort to block EPA regulations on coal-powered plants
By: Audrey Hudson
6/20/2012 06:11 PM
Legislation to defeat an EPA emissions rule that critics say would kill thousands of jobs and raise electricity rates for consumers was killed in the Senate Wednesday.
A handful of Republicans sided with Democrats to block the measure on a procedural vote of 46 yeas to 53 nays, including Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, and Susan Collins and Olympia Snow of Maine.
Democrats who crossed over to vote with Republicans included Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mark Warner and Jim Webb of Virginia.
Republicans say the mercury emission rules for coal-fired plants are the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s war on coal.
“This effectively kills coal in America,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), author of the measure.
Republicans said the regulations are the most expensive rules ever created by the EPA, and will cost consumers $10 billion a year in addition to killing 50,000 jobs.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/06/20/senate-kills-effort-block-epa-regulations-coal-powered-plants/
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Bastids!!
wonder if the white house electricity is from coal fired power plants. Cut the juice off if it is.Let the magic negro sit in the dark.
The ad could go:
“Barack Obama made a lot of promises before the 2008 election. Some of them he kept” blah blah blah....
RNC; can you hear us now???
If coal ceases to be used for energy production because natural gas has become so cheap, we can take it as another sign of markets working. If coal ceases to be used for energy production because of EPA regulations, then it’s another story.
AMERICAN THINKER
June 13, 2011
Crony Capitalism and Obama’s Anti-Coal Crusade
By Ed Lasky
Barack Obama has long sought to bankrupt the coal industry. But, Cook County politician that he is and always will be, the relevant question is: who benefits from his plans wreck a major portion of our economy while also boosting electricity prices across America?
A clue: he and his pals from Chicago have incestuous ties to the one company whose prospects will be boosted by Obama’s policies.
While Barack Obama has broken many promises he made along the campaign trail to the Oval Office, one promise seems close to whatever heart he may have: to bankrupt the coal industry.
Obama’s Plan to Kill Coal
By Christopher Prandoni
5/22/2012
Obama will go down in history as the president who killed coal. Making no attempt to hide his disdain for one of America’s most abundant, efficient energy sources, then candidate Barack Obama said that, “if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
Making good on that promise, President Obama charged Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Lisa Jackson with the task of regulating America’s coal industry out of existence. The EPA’s strategy is simple: impose punitive, costly regulations on existing coal plants and mandate unattainable emissions standards on future coal power plants.
This one-two punch has manifested itself in two bureaucratic sounding rules—the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (U-MACT) and the proposed regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Costing an estimated $10 billion annually by 2016, the U-MACT wins the EPA’s pernicious accolade of most expensive regulation ever written for power plants. The U-MACT requires coal power plants to spend millions of dollars retrofitting their facilities or shutdown entirely. Unable to afford costly upgrades, many power plants will close their doors causing electricity prices and unemployment levels to rise.
But it gets worse, last month the EPA proposed carbon limits on new coal-fired power plants. This new rule effectively ensures that no new coal-fired power plants will ever be built in America. The EPA’s new carbon mandate requires new coal plants to accomplish the unattainable: achieve emissions parity with natural gas plants. Foolishly, President Obama is leveraging America’s newfound natural gas abundance against coal companies.
http://townhall.com/columnists/christopherprandoni/2012/05/22/obamas_plan_to_kill_coal
99ers Get Hit Hard in West Virginia – Washington’s War on Coal
Posted on January 21, 2011 by Mark Schumacher
Our illustrious President is doing everything possible to kill jobs and prevent America from prospering. The coal industry is systematically being shut down by a man who seems to not give a damn about our economy as we are in the throes of a depression, with 25% real unemployment. The insanity is so blatant, that it has got to be by design.
For reasons that only can be explained by either incompetence or corruption, the energy industry is on the railway to bankruptcy. Coal mining in West Virginia has been a staple industry for years, and now is being attacked again; by needless regulation that does nothing but hurt the West Virginia local economy, as well as, the national energy supply. How does this President expect to power up all of the electric cars he is trying to push on us? This incompetence makes zero sense.
Either way it is one less source to produce electricity.
And when they EPA have killed Nat Gas because of regulation, then we’ll all be screwed. The EPA haven’t caught up with Nat Gas yet. Fracking?
Coal Miners: From Powering America to Powerless. Layoffs Announced. Brownouts Predicted.
JUNE 22, 2012
Have you ever spent time in a coal-producing region? I have. The coal region in Virginia is tucked away…from everything. It’s not going to be so easy for these laid-off workers to brush the coal dust off their boots and go on interviews. A new good-paying job will most likely entail relocation resulting in more local businesses suffering, more layoffs and more homes bloating the housing market. (Not to mention the possibility of foreclosures).
And then of course we will be adding more Americans trying to scrape by on government benefits including unemployment and food stamps.
From Arch Coal Lays Off Nearly 600 Workers (Kentucky. com June 21, 2012):
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