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In Reply to: RE: Contrarian Economist or just confused? posted by halfnote on May 02, 2008 at 20:58:14
I have yet to read anything about coal being clean. The Iatan, MO power plant is just across the Missouri River with a second generating plant being built. Would you like to have a house downwind where the mercury residue might affect the health of your family? Mercury is nasty stuff even in small amounts. There is no CO2 sequestration for coal plants yet and is still just a proposal rather than a working procedure. How would you like to have the leftover ash in your neighborhood?
But before all those worries, consider the coal mining process since the coal isn't delivered by the hand of God. Strip mines aren't really pretty and we can convert only so many into fishing ponds as was done in SE Kansas. Tipple or chat piles are an eyesore. Mining underground isn't terribly safe and more than a few towns have seen their buildings fall into the ground as the tunnels collapse. It happened within the past two years in SW Missouri.
Then there's nothing attractive about hilltopping where the tops of hills are cleared away to get at the coal. The leftover dirt and chat is usually just pushed into an adjacent valley, fouling streams and watersheds.
The giant coal pits in Montana and Wyoming won't be tourist attractions for a long time either. The railroad line that carries coal trains for Kansas City is across the river running through the rural town of Farley, MO. Would you like to have the value of your property affected by the noise and dust created by the daily trains?
While you see coal as a part of the economic imperative, real people are being affected by the mining. They might be poor and they might be few and they're definitely not on TV screen of most Americans but they're out there. Just as you want to protect your home and family, chances are that they do too. If you're so emphatic in your view, then you should have the conviction to explain the necssity of the sacrifices required to them in person rather than hiding behind a moniker on an obscure internet bulletin board. Be sure to send us the video of any conversations with aminer suffering from black lung disease or one of the widows created by the Utah mine collapse.
The Kansas legislature failed twice to overturn the governor's decision to veto the construction of a coal burning power plant in SW Kansas in the town of Holcomb. Kansas would've gotten only 14% of the power generated while the rest would've gone to Texas and Colorado. We would've gotten most of the pollution. Imagine the effect on all the employees in Chad Kassem's store and his Blue Heaven recording studio in Salina, KS. The pollution doesn't stay in the town of origin. Kansas towns such as Russell and Hayes, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, already have ozone problems
As long as the NIMBY clause remains in the forebrain of most Americans, we're going to be dukeing it out over energy generation. Since you don't want to pay for the solutions with taxes, how about giving up some of your health or a bit of the time you have left on Earth to get the problem solved. Some of us already are.Question authority!
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