Of course, the outlook for new coal-fired power plants will only get worse in light of the EPA’s recent CO2 “finding,” but it’s not just the coal-fired power plants he’s targeting. It is also the mining operations. The EPA is rescinding or denying permits for mining operations in wholesale fashion.

The idiot UMWA supported Obama, of course.

Now onward to rationed health care for the masses to cure our health care system.

Rapunzel on April 29, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Re: Laughlin

The CA equivalent of the Public Utilities Commission shut down the $1.2 billion dollar project to make those two old coal fired units meet the 2005 emission standards and become more efficient. Since the power was to go to CA, they had a say in the project funding. so the two units had to shutdown. I was to run the project’s power plant modification aspect. There was also to be a new coal mine and pipeline to service the facility, with spending above the $1.2 billion for the facility modifications. Now as to why the PUC wouldn’t approve the project, since we meet the new standards in the design with all of the necessary equipment, I was never informed. We had scrubbers and baghouses in the design, from my memory, and our company had instlled them in many other earlier designs. IMHO, it was environmental politics since I have seen worthwhile projects stopped before such as the refinery in north central CA where after 5 years of hassle it was canceled in the US and built in Indonesia.

And a little irony was involved since my next and last job before retirement was being a major player in the testing of one time use only, newly designed equipment and the overseeing of operations for the destruction of mustard agent under the Dept of Army. Hey, when they shutdown private industry, there will always be a government job. (sarcasm/off)

Take care and be safe

quikstrike98 on April 29, 2009 at 8:24 AM

As my husband said last night “Time to build an icehouse”.

I am so excited about the idea of mythical power. Is that like burning unicorn poo in your car, or something?

But on a side note, I wonder how many of these Navajo’s voted for BHO. Bet they are changing their minds now.

TrickyDick on April 28, 2009 at 1:42 PM
I said it before and I’ll say it again. Liberals aren’t going to be happy until everyone’s living in grass huts or caves again in access controled mega-cities and buffalo roam freely everywhere in their historic range. They hate you everyone including themselves!

Fixed.

Friendly21 on April 28, 2009 at 6:24 PM

+1

uh, I didn’t just imagine it, I knew it.

And hundreds of posters on this site knew it too.

Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley said in a statement the decision was further proof that the U.S. government isn’t “honest and truthful in its dealings with Native America.” Shirley said that the EPA withdrawal of the permit will harm the Navajo people.

Good grief, the US Gov’t isn’t honest in its dealings with the rest of the US, so this is no surprise. By the time Obama and Co. are finished, America will be a third-world banana republic.

Fixed.