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Power Plant Opponents File New Objection
posted 08/26/09
3:58 pm
The Sierra Club and National Audubon Society filed the request Wednesday to the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission.
In it, the groups claim a decision by federal regulators over a Kentucky power plant shows the planned $1.6 billion coal-fired plant in Hempstead County would violate the federal Clean Air Act.
It is unclear when the commission will address the request.
Southwestern Electric Power Co., a subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power, wants to build the power plant.
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posted by: BUBBA CROW on 12:49 pm on 08/27/09
Lumberjack wrote:
Clean coal is about the equivalent of a filtered cigarette Bubba. The only way to make clean coal work is to sequester the CO2 emissions or recycle that CO2 for biodiesel production. Coal is not a renewable resource. We should be investing in Wind/Solar to suppliment our electricity needs. This power generation is not needed for Arkansas. It's for Texas and Louisiana. How would you feel if your neighbor built a house and put his septic tank in your front yard? It's the same concept. They get the benefits, we get the pollution.
Clean coal is about the equivalent of a filtered cigarette Bubba. The only way to make clean coal work is to sequester the CO2 emissions or recycle that CO2 for biodiesel production. Coal is not a renewable resource. We should be investing in Wind/Solar to suppliment our electricity needs. This power generation is not needed for Arkansas. It's for Texas and Louisiana. How would you feel if your neighbor built a house and put his septic tank in your front yard? It's the same concept. They get the benefits, we get the pollution.
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