Clean coal is a friendly choice
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Dear Editor:
It would seem unusual that area rice farmers and STP would be partnering together to bash clean coal technology. But they both have similar goals.
The area rice farmers claim they want to maintain their heritage. This is true in recent years; their heritage is to be benefactors of government welfare. Check out EWG farm subsidy database and you will be shocked by the millions of dollars poured into our local farmers’ pockets. Rice farming is no longer economically viable in Matagorda County especially for a product that is mostly exported. They should stand-alone and get off the taxpayers back.
STP is seeking government dollar to build two new units, they want their share of 644 billion dollars that have been spent on energy production funded by the taxpayers. The Price Anderson Act and the Nuclear Waste Fund are also tax money they want. We must also remember history. STP made a hug fiasco out of the construction and startup of the two original units. It is unlikely their management team would fair better this time judging from the issues with contractors and investors they currently have.
From the environmental stand point Clean Coal has lower emission standards than refineries and chemical pants in the area. Even a minor leak at STP will make Matagorda County a permanent wasteland. Think it cannot happen. There have been more than 25 serious incidents involving nuclear energy production including Three Mile Island, Saint Laurent and Braidwood plants.
The truth is Clean coal is the safest, economical and environmentally friendly choice. It will be criminally wrong for our leaders to not support Clean Coal. No longer do we need to suffer cronyism for the sake of a few.
Silas Richards
Bay City
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Will Mr.Richards tell all of Matagorda County what Clean Coal is since local elected officials will not??
"There are no homes in America powered by Clean Coal" -- MIT database.
The Coal Plant has applied to the LCRA to remove 56 Square Miles of water from the Colorado River each year - by comparison Matagorda Bay is 59 Square Miles. That water will not be retained in a cooling pond and returned to the river like STP, but will go right up the coal plant 60 Story tall smokestacks. That amount of water is 1/4 the entire annual usage of Austin.
For those and other reasons, is why the US EPA, Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept., US Fish & Wildlife Service, and The Nature Conservancy have filed documents denying the Permit Application for the White Stallion Coal Plant.
March 2, 2010 at 4:37 p.m.There is no such thing as clean coal...no matter how you spin it.
February 25, 2010 at 1:27 p.m.