A lot of coal-burning power plants are on the drawing board. In one case, the desires of some Navajo tribal members are up against a lot of money to be earned by the tribe.
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A lot of coal-burning power plants are on the drawing board. In one case, the desires of some Navajo tribal members are up against a lot of money to be earned by the tribe.
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Review of New Coal Plants on the Drawing BoardThis is a good heads up and timely report on another coal plant going onto Navajo lands, the third within 10 miles of each other. There is a comment at the end that we need to limit these plants to prevent more co2 and other greenhouse gas emmissions. Some of the Navajo protestors tell their personal stories. I'd recommend whoever use this piece to also announce the group's website. There are links to chilling documents. |
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NEW COAL PLANTS ON THE DRAWING BOARD
Daniel Kraker
May 21, 2007
There's been a lot of talk about developing clean energy sources, like wind and solar power. But coal is still king. And to meet the country's growing energy demand there are about 150 new coal fired power plants on the drawing board. But not everyone is thrilled about relying on coal as a significant future energy source. Daniel Kraker takes us to a place where people have lived next to these power plants for decades. And now they're fighting plans to build another one:
In northwest New Mexico, the Navajo Indian reservation is a spectacular other-worldly landscape of mesas and giant sandstone rock formations jutting out of the red earth. Underneath the ground are huge reserves of coal. This is where the Navajo government and a company called Sithe Global Power want to build a 1500-megawatt power plant called Desert...
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Host intro: To meet the country's growing demand for energy, there are about 150 new coal-burning power plants on the drawing board. But not everyone is thrilled about relying on coal as a future energy source. Daniel Kraker takes us to a place where people have lived next to these power plants for decades. And now they're fighting plans to build another one.
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Denis Du Bois
Posted on October 11, 2010 at 05:14 PM | Permalink
Nail in the coffin
Dozens of personal, pointed stories like this one helped to put a stop to coal plant construction, from Four Corners New Mexico to the four corners of North America, in 2008.
As I write this comment, almost every fossil-fueled station like Desert Rock in the U.S. is on hold -- and to some degree so are the coal mining practices that accompany them.
The same phenomenon that stopped the irresponsible expansion of nuclear power after Three Mile Island is the same one that is halting coal in its tracks today: An enlightened American public simply says, "No."
Keep up the good work!
For updates on Desert Rock:
http://www.desertrockenergyproject.com/news.htm