Reject coal-fired plant

Sunflower Power is advertising the need for a new coal-fired power plant in western Kansas, saying that Kansas needs both wind/solar development and new coal-fired plants.

“Power from the plant would benefit Kansas very little, some 15 percent serving western Kansas,” The Star reports. This could easily be made up with wind generation. The rest will serve mostly Colorado.

Kansas would get the carbon poisoning, and the depletion of our Ogallala Aquifer.

Colorado has rejected the plant, as other states, including Minnesota, Florida, Delaware, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, and Iowa have rejected coal plants, in favor of the safety of their citizens and the life of this planet.

Contact your state lawmaker urging a vote against the plant and in favor of wind power.

To find out more about this grassroots fight, see the January/February issue of Orion magazine at www.orionmagazine.org.

Tom Hawley
Leawood

Comments

[CRD]

"Fed up is an understatement. I'm going to find some fixtures to hold 100 watt incandescents and I'm going to find a 350 to replace my 4 liter engine."

Yeah, that's intelligent.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

SITM you are saying liberals ARE NOT whining abuts costs of consumables? Hogwash. Let's see they want more FREE handouts for utility subsidies. Have kids? Yes we do and paying for lazy welfare freaks consumption is not my responsibility or anyone elses.
BTW we are talking about coal fired eneregy not pertoleum and refining. Monster truck? Right, go sell you shinola to Pelosi and her much wanted private Boeing 737 she wanted to travel around bnitching about the environment and conservation. Wait? You libs aren't conservative, you believe everything is free and everyone else should pay for what you use.

[Tom K]

These environmental panics are episodic. The usual suspects rail at the people who supply us with power and feed us, and I will bet you that John Travolta (one of the actors who is tops in the environmental movement) will not give up his numerous jet airplanes. Environmentalists in England are convinced that destroying pet hedgehogs will somehow magically save those that are in the wild. We have a whole passel of them trying to convince everyone that humans are too alien to live on this Earth, both too good for it and too evil at the same time.

Fed up is an understatement. I'm going to find some fixtures to hold 100 watt incandescents and I'm going to find a 350 to replace my 4 liter engine.

[Engineer]

somewhere in the middle
Is that handle a typo by any chance? And Luddites were against mechanized means of production that were working, in place and taking over the production. None of the alternative methods of power generation have given any indication that, in their present state, they can take over the major portion of the power generation load. There are people working on the problems associated with this and some day a viable alternative may be found. However that day has not dawned as yet. Perhaps I am doing you an injustice, but it seems to me that the emotion shown on this subject varies inversely with the writer’s actual technical knowledge concerning power generation.

[somewhere in the middle]

Any of you cromagnon luddites have kids??? Ever wonder what this generation will leave the next besides a huge mess and a bill to clean up the mess??? Ever read a book or article about what's going on in West Virginia where bigg coal continues to RAPE the land??? and the surrounding landowners??? mostly conversative I might add. Probably not unless hate radio tells you.

This plant is wrong for all the rght reasons. Liberals aren't whining about the price of consumables they're whining about the rate of increase of the consumption of consumables, bonehead. Go ahead start yur ole monster truck and 'git er done. Sooner or later you'll be saying dang! prices are high...

As for so called "cleaner" approaches to energy the jury is still out depending on which lobbyist you listen to. Our America; you know the one for all including the ones who lapp up rush's bile, has serious energy concerns but the answer is surely not to give bigg coal carte blanche, (a french term), to shove its way into Kansas and spew it's crap into what's left of the land.

I'll bet you guys waste more energy in an hour than most do in a day...

[CRD]

"I am also unconcerned about trace amounts of mercury or uranium in coal."

Yeah, that's a smart approach.

[Tom K]

I'm sick of their kvetching. I'm for incandescent light bulbs, large personal conveyances, hemp for fuel and fiber, and a fairly clean environment, but I have the sense to try to pick which things to fight. I am also unconcerned about trace amounts of mercury or uranium in coal.

A funny story: When the stacks were allowed to belch the ash from burning coal, the alkaline ash cancelled out the acid that makes acid rain.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

and the libs continue to complain about the price of consumables yet increase THEIR consumption. Typical liberal.
I am for the coal fired plant in Holcomb. The excess eeergy would be sold off to utilities in CO, CA, wherever hence benefiting people n those states and providing income to the State of KS.
It would increase the supply of much needed energy. The new technology in coal fired energy is much cleaner and much mroe efficient. is it perfect? Of course not.
I would say anyone against coal fired energy shold not be allowed to have ANY electrical power, computers or electronics components. We wouldn;t want you contributing to the desctruction of the planet which is billions of years old and can hold it's own.

[Tom K]

Did you know that agriculture depends on carbon dioxide? It doesn't grow on trees you know. Someone has to make it.