Comments on: The Utility MACT: Fighter of Green Energy’s Battles

By: CB

CB — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:23:30 +0000

Eternal Vigilance… or…?

Once shut down for only a few years, those stations will be dead. Getting them running again will take years. Years.

Of course, nobody will blame those who are to blame: the hippies. And as children die in winter cold, predictably, the hippies will frolic in California, predictably. And in Congress, of course. And in the media. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.

This then is the real world: if you are too stupid to keep your children alive… then you will watch them die. If you are too pathetic to fight for your children’s future, to stand against their enemies… then they will have NONE, and their enemies will… frolic, in the sunshine.

By: BobRGeologist

BobRGeologist — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:03:02 +0000

I speak with many years of experience as a geologist in the coal industry and I know that the condemning of the use of coal in power generation is equivalent to “cutting off your nose to spite your face.” We are in a glacial climate with iced up polar areas and need a robust (plenty of CO2 in our greenhouse gas) to stave off the next continental glaciation,
#6 in the series of 100,000 year Pleistocene glaciations. Besides it will do wonders in the growing of food for our burgeoning world population

By: far2right

far2right — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:49:23 +0000

Theoden King of Rohan lamented, “How did it come to this?”

This is how. GHWB signed the CAAA of 1990 into law. Title III of these amendments required a precise regulatory framework for reduction of specified “hazardous air pollutants” for industry sectors to be defined by EPA, one of which was utilities. The WJC Admin. said only Hg needed to be regulated from utilities. The GWB Admin. said that regulation for utilities under Title III was not reasonable and appropriate, opting for a CAMR approach instead. The D.C. Court b-slapped GWB, vacating and remanding CAMR. The court, being the public health and environment experts that they are (they know everything there is to know about any thing), also told EPA that utilities and industrial boilers must be regulated under Title III. The BHO Admin. then started the MACT process all over determining the best 12% performing sources and thereby setting MACT limits for all existing sources based on brand new emissions data measurements collected after years of technological improvements since 1990. So, by kicking the can down the road by WJC and GWB (at industry’s prompting), the lobbyists shot themselves in the foot. Had utilities accepted Title III back in the 90′s, the NESHAP would not have been nearly as aggressive. Industry would also have been in a much better position to fight against residual risk claims by EPA.