Voted Gibbons Out!

sez Las Vegas Sun as it pokes holes in the Governor’s plan for coal-to-magic elixir plan. (Sun)

While the Governor’s trying to sell his version of coal to snake-oil, the power company’s trying to sell the state on the White Pines coal-fired plants. (Sun) There’s a bunch of BLM phone numbers and email addresses at the end [...]

Silver River Project has abandoned plans to restart the coal-fired Mojave Generating Station in Laughlin. Good thing, too. The plant was a source of visibility impairment of the Grand Canyon, said the pre-Bush E.P.A.

The plant was supplied by a coal-slurry from Black Mesa, Arizona, which dumped 485,000 gallons of coal goo in spills over a two [...]

While the hearings on White Pine coal-fired plants are going on, looks like Bush is going to cut back on federal funding for wind power. Sierra Club showed up at the BLM hearing on the White Pine plants in costume while Sierra Nevada Power, who, by the way, contributed $25,000 to the Gibbons’ Balls, assured us [...]

Lahontan Valley News via Nevada Appeal finds a problem with the Gube’s plan to subsidize Wyoming coal mines with his coal-to-liquid scheme:

There’s one problem, however – Nevada isn’t a
coal-producing state. The needed raw material would have to be shipped
in from other states by train, burning fuel and using energy in the
process. Building such a plant and [...]