Six major unions beg the Senate to stop EPA coal regulations

[Jroc]

Does Obama care about working people? No...Does he really care about the poor. No... He's a narcissist who only cares about himself and his ideology, which is why he gives billions to failed green energy companies while attempting to put the coal industry out of business.

 

[william the wie]

Does Obama care about working people? No...Does he really care about the poor. No... He's a narcissist who only cares about himself and his ideology, which is why he gives billions to failed green energy companies while attempting to put the coal industry out of business.

He is also an idiot. Fracking coal seams reduces labor costs and increases the pipeline network making the revenues from future fracking higher. That in turn raises the effective cost of alternative energy. His partisans will be thrilled by the unintended consequences of this idiocy.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Without regulations we would all be walking around wearing masks. Hence, China. I hope coal miners who go under ground and work their tails off are making at least $35 an hour because frankly otherwise they are being taken advantage of.

They are being taken advantage of by Democrats. Now that two presidential elections are done, Union votes are no longer needed. Who's taking advantage of who? What's the environmentalists' plan to transition miners into a new livelihood economically? Environmentalists never consider Economic impact. Why? They don't care.

 

[R.C. Christian]

The EPA is out of control, but Obama wants your energy costs to be higher. He said something like 10X higher. He was obviously high at the time but it's going to be hilarious when Demofags can't afford to charge their electric cars.

 

[Jroc]

Without regulations we would all be walking around wearing masks. Hence, China. I hope coal miners who go under ground and work their tails off are making at least $35 an hour because frankly otherwise they are being taken advantage of.

They are being taken advantage of by Democrats. Now that two presidential elections are done, Union votes are no longer needed. Who's taking advantage of who? What's the environmentalists' plan to transition miners into a new livelihood economically? Environmentalists never consider Economic impact. Why? They don't care.

You mean liberal ideologues, they are not real unbiased economists. Those who allow themselves to be are simply tools of the leftists.

 

[tinydancer]

Clean coal technology is out there.

The world's first "clean coal" power plant went on-line in September 2008 in Spremberg, Germany. The plant is owned by the Swedish company Vattenfall and has been built by the German firm Siemens. The plant is called Schwarze Pumpe power station.

The facility captures CO2 and acid rain producing sulfides, separates them, and compresses the CO2 into a liquid. Plans are to inject the CO2 into depleted natural gas fields or other geological formations.

This technology is considered not to be a final solution for CO2 reduction in the atmosphere, but provides an achievable solution in the near term while more desirable alternative solutions to power generation can be made economically practical.

Clean coal technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[william the wie]

Well, there goes MT, WV and PA from the D column more or less permanently.

 

[Papageorgio]

I work in the power industry for a company that makes equipment that cleans the boilers that burn coal. Through the use of SCR's Bag Houses, Precipitators and PSI injection, we are burning coal very clean. You cannot compare the US coal industry to China's, they 30 years behind us in cleaning technology.

Please don't confuse Progressive with facts. They don't believe in science and progress.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Based on the data coming out China...Coal is probably the main cause of Cancer. Do you realize that cancer is the single deadliest disease we Americans deal with?

Yes sir, Let's ban coal.

No, let's dont.

 

[healthmyths]

Charcoal can be made from hemp stalks. Charcoal can be burned to produce electricity. The hemp that is growing for the next batch is taking in the pollution put out by burning hemp-based charcoal.

Cannabis can also produce transportation fuel in every state, limiting foreign petroleum imports and negating the need for international pipelines. And again, the hemp that is growing for the next batch is taking in the pollution caused by burning the fuel.

No more coal, no more deep-sea drilling spewing sludge into our oceans, no more nuclear disasters, no more Keystone XL tar sands poison, but we will have thousands of jobs across America, we will have renewable energy, we will have a reduction of pollution, etc. etc., just from legalizing Cannabis Sativa again.

And marijuana may cure cancer caused by industrial pollution.

Cannabis can also produce transportation fuel in every state, limiting foreign petroleum imports and negating the need for international pipelines. And again, the hemp that is growing for the next batch is taking in the pollution caused by burning the fuel.

DEBUNKED before yet you keep putting smoke up our ..sses!

Osburn figured for the worst farmland.
In fact, if we apply a realistic estimate of average yield—3.5 tons of usable biomass per acre—and suppose that hemp were to be grown on every single acre of arable cropland in the U. S. (421 million acres), we would only produce about 1.5 billion tons of hemp biomass per year. This probably sounds like a lot. However, according to the U.S. government (DOE, 2011) we used 6.8 billion barrels of petroleum and almost exactly 1 billion tons of coal in 2009; this amounts to 66 billion gigajoules of energy.

If we burned all of that hemp biomass, it would optimistically yield 23 billion gigajoules (ORNL, 2011).
In other words, even if we grew hemp on all the farmland in the country, it would only replace 35% of our combined coal and oil use—and this doesn’t even take natural gas into account. Obviously, hemp couldn’t even come close to replacing our fossil fuels.
http://hemphoax.org/hemp-as-a-biofuel/

 

[bripat9643]

Clean coal technology is out there.

The world's first "clean coal" power plant went on-line in September 2008 in Spremberg, Germany. The plant is owned by the Swedish company Vattenfall and has been built by the German firm Siemens. The plant is called Schwarze Pumpe power station.

The facility captures CO2 and acid rain producing sulfides, separates them, and compresses the CO2 into a liquid. Plans are to inject the CO2 into depleted natural gas fields or other geological formations.

This technology is considered not to be a final solution for CO2 reduction in the atmosphere, but provides an achievable solution in the near term while more desirable alternative solutions to power generation can be made economically practical.

Clean coal technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coal is already clean. CO2 is not a pollutant.

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[percysunshine]

Love you nuclear. Lets invest into fusion.

Nuclear is off limits. The environmentalists closed that industry down in the Carter administration. It is a good idea, though.

Guess again a new nuke plant is being built in south Carolina
About time

Must be a red state.

 

[freedombecki]

Based on the data coming out China...Coal is probably the main cause of Cancer. Do you realize that cancer is the single deadliest disease we Americans deal with?

Yes sir, Let's ban coal.

No, let's dont.

Hear, hear!

 

[g5000]

So, our regulations keep even coal emissions in check. Coal supplies nearly 40% of our electricity. The EPA proposals will effectively reduce that to zero.

Nope.

Do the math, Matt.

Making shit up =/= "math".

 

[novasteve]

The consolation for these people will be that they have to let men into the women's bathroom and can get riskier blood transfusions. Yay liberalism.

 

[Jroc]

Clean coal technology is out there.

The world's first "clean coal" power plant went on-line in September 2008 in Spremberg, Germany. The plant is owned by the Swedish company Vattenfall and has been built by the German firm Siemens. The plant is called Schwarze Pumpe power station.

The facility captures CO2 and acid rain producing sulfides, separates them, and compresses the CO2 into a liquid. Plans are to inject the CO2 into depleted natural gas fields or other geological formations.

This technology is considered not to be a final solution for CO2 reduction in the atmosphere, but provides an achievable solution in the near term while more desirable alternative solutions to power generation can be made economically practical.

Clean coal technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coal is already clean. CO2 is not a pollutant.

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More Co2 means a greener planet. I think the green movement should be renamed because they certainly aren't for a greener planet

 

[RoadVirus]

Know it'll suck for the miner community, their families, and their communities, but the sooner we make coal unprofitable and more trouble than its worth, the better off everyone else will be.

Better off? Not having a job and not being able to afford food because of it is "better off"?

Typical Liberal thinking.


But then there's always the lifetime help from the government that Liberals love so much: Come on now-unemployed miners! Come join the sucking of Uncle Sam's financial titty! Just tell that crackwhore with 6+ kids to make a hole for ya...there ya go! And hey...bring your family over too! And tell your kids that they can do this too without having do a lick of work for their entire adult lives, cuz Uncle Sam will be right here, waiting to give them the life of laziness!

 

[Jroc]

Know it'll suck for the miner community, their families, and their communities, but the sooner we make coal unprofitable and more trouble than its worth, the better off everyone else will be.

Better off? Not having a job and not being able to afford food because of it is "better off"?

Typical Liberal thinking.


But then there's always the lifetime help from the government that Liberals love so much: Come on now-unemployed miners! Come join the sucking of Uncle Sam's financial titty! Just tell that crackwhore with 6+ kids to make a hole for ya...there ya go! And hey...bring your family over too! And tell your kids that they can do this too without having do a lick of work for their entire adult lives, cuz Uncle Sam will be right here, waiting to give them the life of laziness!

of course our electricity bills will "Sky rocket" but that's necessary in Obama world

 

[Synthaholic]

I guess the unions should have thought of this before supporting Obama in the first place

Dear Chairman Wyden and Ranking Member Murkowski:

During promulgation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPAs) Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS) rule, our unions consistently raised concerns regarding the short timeframe available for compliance and the devastating effects on jobs, especially good-paying middle-class employment in the coal-fired electricity generation sector. During the rulemaking process our unions stated for the record that MATS and its short compliance timeline would result in the closing of 56 Gigawatts of coal-fired generation and the loss of approximately 250,000 jobs. Despite assurances by EPA to the contrary, our prediction is now coming to pass.

As the deadline for compliance with MATS approaches, we are increasingly concerned with the effect of a short compliance timeline as hundreds of coal generating units retire and are permanently removed from service. Our concerns are compounded by the reduction in utility revenues from existing generation, increased reliance on demand response, and from unregulated distributed generation. These reduced revenues may increase the number of coal – and possibly nuclear – plant retirements as available income will not justify maintaining and/or retrofitting the remaining plants. Needless to say, the more plants that retire, the more jobs will be lost. In addition, as these plants retire, sufficient generation assets to meet demand become questionable, as witnessed by the astronomical electric price spikes during the recent polar vortex.

With these concerns in mind, we respectfully request the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to hold a hearing on the effects of MATS on the regional transmission organization (RTO) markets and their preparedness for generation retirements in the 2015-2017 timeframe. A hearing would be timely and beneficial. Please contact Jim Hunter at (202) 728-6065 or via email at [email protected] if you or your staff would like to discuss these matters further. Thank you for considering our request and we hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Newton B. Jones

International President

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers



Edwin D. Hill

International President

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers



Robert A. Scardelletti

International President

Transportation Communications Union/IAM



John Previsich

President

SMART Transportation Division



Cecil E. Roberts, Jr.

International President

United Mine Workers of America



D. Michael Langford

Utility Workers Union of America

Six Unions Call for Senate Hearing on EPA Coal Regulations ? Wyoming Energy News

You're quite the simpleton. Why do you believe every union is Democratic?

 

[Jarlaxle]

You're quite the pathetic fool. Which ones AREN'T?