If you have a strong stomach, you’ll want to check out the report of the Lincoln Desecration Day Breakfast up in Ely. (ElyTimes) Nevada Governor Jim Gibbers goes on and on about Nevada having to import its energy at the breakfast, and then champions coal, of which there is nary a lump in Nevada, as a [...]
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Even big city paper notices all the ads the coal lobby is dumping on Nevada and other states (WaPo,Grist) Pheobe Sweet left out how Edwards differs from the other members of the big three Democratic presidential candidates on nuclear and coal issues. Edwards is the only one of the big three who is not only opposed to Yucca, he is opposed to new Nuclear Plants, too. He also wants a moritorium on coal plants until [...] Phoebe Sweet‘s been wondering who’s been push polling with a pro-coal message this week. The obvious suspect, our pals over at ABEC, have denied being behind it. At least their local representatives have, the lovely folks over at RnR Partners, home of Billy Vassiliades, Obama’s man in Nevada. Billy needs to wash some of that coal dust off [...] Coal stories are everywhere today! AP tells us about a whole bunch of lawsuits against coal projects: Environmental groups cite 59 canceled, delayed Not to worry. Our old pal [...] Global warming will lead to fewer rainstorms, but they’ll dump more water in a shorter time. Thank the nice Governor and the local coal-fired power company during the next flood, kids. (Sun) A bunch of Utah moms will be heading to Ely, Nevada on a bus called the "No Coal Express" (DeseretNews): Next Wednesday the group is sponsoring a bus trip — "The No Coal Thanks to a comment from NVMojo which led me to an interesting link about Idaho and Nevada Reservoirs: Fish tissue samples taken from rainbow trout collected from four Idaho Mercury Jim’s favorite brain-cell destroying heavy metal is showing up in a rather unexpected place: the smokestacks of crematoriums. The Boston Globe reports that the mercury-laced dental fillings of the dead are vaporized in the furnaces of crematoriums and seep out their smokestacks. The emissions account for only 1 percent of mercury emissions in the U.S., [...] Unable to resist cronyism even in the most innocuous of Gubernatorial functions, the alleged Governor and first co-conspirator have picked coal-fired power plant purveyor Sierra Pacific Resources as a finalist for a "points of light" award, an award usually given to persons or corporations that benefit the state, not those trying to poison it with noxious [...] |
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