For those of you who are motivated and have the free time to attend such, here’s a notice I just got about a public hearing regarding Santee Cooper’s proposed coal-fired plant in the Pee Dee:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 9, 2008
Public meeting set for air application for proposed Santee Cooper power
plantCOLUMBIA – A public meeting on an air quality application submitted by
Santee Cooper for a proposed new coal-fired power plant in Florence
County will be held July 22 at Hannah-Pamplico High School, the S.C.
Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today.DHEC’s Bureau of Air Quality received an application for a
Case-by-Case Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT), also called
“112(g)” air permit by Santee Cooper. The public meeting is being
held for local citizens and other interested persons to ask questions
and offer comments on the proposed project to be located near Kingsburg
and Pamplico.The meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. at the school located at 2055 South
Pamplico Highway in Pamplico.At the meeting information on the 112(g) application and DHEC’s air
permitting process will be provided, along with an opportunity for the
public to ask questions and provide comments on the application.The U.S. Court of Appeals eliminated the federal Clean Air Mercury Rule
for power plants. Until a new mercury regulation is issued by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, each new power plant will have to
propose emission limits to control hazardous air pollutants, including
mercury. DHEC is required to review the proposed limits and application
and make a MACT determination.-###-
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Those who want electric and hybrid cars should come out and support a new source of electricity.
Did something get missed at the end of that last post?
“Those who want electric and hybrid cars should come out and support a new source of electricity”… because you obviously like them because of the “electricity” part and not because you think they’re better for the environment.
Try to get your thoughts together and post again. You make no sense.
Sorry. You implied people who like hybrids and electric cars should come out and support a new coal powered plant. Since many of the people who like hybrids and electric cars do so for (what they think) are environmental reasons, they would presumably not like (what they thought) were the environmental ravages inflicted on the state by a coal powered plant. Hence, I assumed your sentence was sarcasm, and was attempting to sarcastically finish it to make that point.
I realize that most people who like (at least the notions of) electric and hybrid vehicles do so for emotional reasons, and also dislike all fueled electric generating plants for emotional reasons.
But the reality is that putting more electric and hybrid cars on the road requires more electricity to charge them, and that means more generating facilities.
Like the fears of gasoline and diesel car pollution, the fears of coal-fired turbines are baseless fears arising from ignorance of how the combustion process works, the actual emissions, and trade-offs involved.
“the fears of coal-fired turbines are baseless fears arising from ignorance”
That would have been much less convincing if you had made a lot of your livelihood as a shill for energy producers. Thank you again for providing the unbiased truth to the ignorant!
You have no idea what I do for a living, nor my clients. You have no point to make, and cannot dispute any of mine.
The next time you use hydrogen power, thank a nuclear or coal-fired power plant.
Coal Plants have provided the majority of the power to the world for the last 80 years or so and we are all aware of the impact that coal power plants have had on the environment. Today coal plants are cleaner and more efficient then ever before. People need to release that we the power plant people are working aggressively to reduce the impact on the environment. The end result is that we achieve cleaner air through scrubbing the air that exits the plants but this technology is very expensive and those costs are past off to you the electricity consumers. The bigger issue is that people need to learn how to conserve electricity to reduce the new construction of plants that need to be build and reduce the over all load that is being consumed from the power grid.
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