Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Kansas Governmental Agency Gives Nod To West Kansas Coal-Fired Power Plants

As many of you know from high school or Environmental Sciences 101- burning of certain fossil fuels produce certain undesirable atmospheric effects.

Examples include petrol: ozone and coal: acid rains among other enviromental disclaimers.

Nuclear energy is great- but no totally safe way to get rid of the lethal by-products.
Wind- solar and geothermal have always looked promising- but Big Business Utility can't have you cleanly producing your own power and possibly selling some of it back to THEM.

Which leads me- after making a short story long- to tell you what the Kansas Department of Health and Environment- in total contradiction of terms it seems- has just decided to allow 2- 700-megawatt- coal-fired power plants to be built near Holcomb in Western Kansas.

According to THE LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD article- "KDHE Secretary Roderick Bremby said he has yet to make a decision on the issue." Governor Sebelius is against the project.

I refer you back to the the CSW post earlier today- about how a bunch of U.N. scientists say the greenhouse gasses are already at the "critical level."

YOU make the call....
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