The enviros recently stopped TXU in Texas from building several power plants, in spite of predictions that the Texas power grid, which is mostly independent of the rest of the US, will be unstable in less than two years due to the rapid growth rate of the state. (Thank you Mexico.)

The Republicans need to scream about this loud and clear at every level- then when the power goes out, maybe some people will remember who tried to warn them.

Unfortunately, those enviros may be our big allies in the looming fight against the TTC. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.

"...After all, up to this point, solutions actively discussed by press members include relative trivialities like changing light bulbs, purchasing hybrid cars..."

I watch this area on a consistent basis and came across this article early today;

AllAfrica- A PhD is calling for a 5yr freeze on biofuel production in light of the fact that it leads to more starvation as well as higher food prices.

... Zeigler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, told reporters in New York that converting crops such as maize, wheat and sugar into fuels was driving up the prices of food, land and water, according to a UN statement. Noting that the price of wheat has doubled in one year, he warned that if the prices of food crops continued to rise, the poorest countries will not be able to import enough food for their people.

"It is a crime against humanity to convert agricultural productive soil into soil which produces food stuff that will be burned into biofuel."

Ziegler argued that biofuels will only lead to further hunger in a world where an estimated 854 million people (1 out of 6) already suffer from the scourge; 100,000 people die from hunger or its immediate consequences every day; and every five seconds, a child dies from hunger. ...

He defines hunger as man made.

Do we freeze people by eliminating an energy source or starve them by providing an alternative?

JDW

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We were told this would be for our own good. And that it would be painless.

The idiots never learned from DDT.

The environmentalist are crazy, arrogant, idiots, with blood on their hands. Far more blood than they claim is on W's hands.

They're the enemy of mankind.

Mr. Sheppard you are making a huge mistake in your assumption that "coal fired powerplants" are being stopped. They are no more being stopped than wind plants are being stopped everywhere......No where except Teddy Kennedy's back pool.

Coal fired plants are being stopped where the pretty people live as always. Just like the people of the northern plains were nuclear fodder during the Cold war while the pretty people lived without missiles in their back yard.

I suggest you once again research Ottertail Power of Minnesota and see how they are busy building COAL FIRED PLANTS out of pretty people Minnesota and into South Dakota.

Ottertail is currently building Big Stone II (Big Stone I is already up and running for 30 plus years polluting the skies of South Dakota so all the pretty people in big cities can have electricity and clean air.)

Coal is mined out of Wyoming and Montana, rail shipped to the Dakotas which have few people, but lots of power plants and the electricity ends up in huge lines going east.

What EVERYONE SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN IS THIS:

Big Stone I was using water run off as it takes billions of gallons of water a year to cool these plants. MINNESOTA HAS A LAW NOW THAT NO MORE WATER CAN BE TAKEN FROM THE BIG STONE LAKE SYSTEM which Ottertail promise South Dakotans is how the plant would be cooled.

Now instead politicians have "granted Ottertail to take billions of gallons of water out of the Veblen Acquifer" which is one of the last clean water untapped acquifers in the world...........and Ottertail is going to use it to cool coal soot. Try drinking that.

So with clean water being a scarce commodity in this world, Ottertail is going to use it to rape the natural resources of a rural state so clean state Minnesota can make billions in profits.

I have posted here that Gorilla Project is now underway for a massive theft of Missouri River water in billions of gallons so a NEW OIL REFINERY WILL BE BUILT IN SOUTH DAKOTA polluting the entire region.

So Mr. Sheppard, respectfully, your idea in blaming greens for stopping coal plants is not the way it works. The greens are still in globalists building coal plants, but just in poverty areas raping them while the large population states feed on people like electric cannibals.

No one is covering this rape of American resources and as our population grows and is now going green electric as more plants are to be built it is past time that someone starts asking why on earth are liberals being allowed to demolish water systems that America will need.
This watershed takes great amounts of water to replenish as South Dakota is an arid region prone to 5 year drought cycles. What happens when American need water and it is all up in coal fired plants mists.

I have no problem with coal plants, but in dealing with the owners they could care less about alternative gravity flow hydro systems I created as the "billions are already invested in the coal plants to be built".
There is the counter balance electric plant I explained here before and not even Alec Baldwin will touch that as it does not make money for the liberal industries which Al Gore is feeding.

Check out the real power grid monopoly and how it is all sown up in the same way the Rockefeller oil companies got rid of rail, soy diesel engines and stopped drilling for oil in America to keep them buying an expensive OPEC supply for their balance of trade.

Coal plants are being built in the poverty areas against the people's will, but without votes there the pollution wins.

Oh and the Sioux were promised by Bill Clinton to never have the Veblin Acquifer EVER tampered with........too bad as that water is about to disappear because "green globalists" demand new plants to fire up their electric cars.

So poor people can suck coal dust and die while people of the east and west regions can drive their electric cars breathing clean air.

When is someone going to break this story instead of ignoring it.

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The enviro-kooks don't like coal, they don't like gas turbines, they don't like oil (or any if its derivatives), they don't like nautural gas, they don't like wind (kills birds), they don't like hydro (kills fish), they don't like nuclear, and I am confident that they would probably find something wrong with pedal-powered generators, too.

You know, if I didn't (cough) know better, I'd swear these people are opposed to anything that would enable economic growth/expansion of any kind.