Send a message to Citibank, Bank of America: No more coal-fired power plants
April 25, 2008 by Joe Newman
Meet Trevor. He works with Public Citizen’s Texas Office, which is active in the fight against new coal-fired power plants. He’s got an important message for Bank of America and CitiBank, two of the financial giants that are trying to fund new coal-fired power plants. Here’s the deal: Coal is dirty. It’s yesterday’s technology. It’s time that we started investing in renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, and put our efforts into energy efficiency and conservation.
Coal-fired power plants are responsible for about a third of the CO2 emissions we produce in America. Think about it. That’s as much as all the vehicles on the road, planes in the sky and boats on our waterways combined.
But hey, if you don’t want to listen to us, listen to somewhat a lot smarter, like Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. This is from Bill McAuliffe’s story, “Top scientist objects to coal-based power plant,” in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “Phasing out coal-based power, Hansen wrote, “is 80 percent of the solution to the global warming crisis.”
So far, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty hasn’t shown the same political courage as his Kansas colleague, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who has blocked plans to build new coal plants in her state.
But you don’t have to be a governor to do something about it. You can do like Trevor did and send your own message to the companies that want to make money off of new coal plants at our expense.
Nothing wrong with coal.
Only handwringing sissies think otherwise.
Get a life you losers.
TS
“Nothing wrong with coal.”
Except for the mining, which has led to several dozen deaths directly in the past year, and indirectly to hundreds of deaths. Oh, and the mountaintop removal process wherein we literally destroy the tops of mountains to get at the coal inside.
Nothing wrong with coal, except for the SOx and NOx it spews into the atmosphere, causing acid rain, deforestation, etc. Oh, and the particulate matter that gives people asthma and lung disease. And the mercury which causes autism and heavy metal poisoning. Oh, plus the greenhouse gases (CO2, CO, Methane, etc) which contribute to global warming.
Nothing wrong with coal, except it is the single most environmentally unfriendly thing we do is to mine and burn coal.
“Only handwringing sissies think otherwise.”
No, thousands of scientists and economists believe it is time to move on from coal. Actually, the best thing we could ever do is to get all of our domestic energy from renewable sources and then sell our high quality coal on the world market. If we’re going to be in the coal business, we may as well not be smoking it ourselves.
But, Tim, please send us your home address so we can make sure we build all of the new coal plants in your backyard. That way you can breathe the air, get poisoned by the mercury, etc and we can see if you put your own personal health where your mouth is.
LMAO. I did not write that last comment. I just wish I had. It sums up my thoughts, exactly.