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07-01-2008, 08:16 PM
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Energy: A state judge has blocked construction of a power plant on grounds that its emissions permit does not set a cap on carbon dioxide. Global warming alarmism wins another round.
Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore of the Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court invalidated on Tuesday a government permit issued in 2007 for construction of a coal-fired plant in the southwestern part of the state.
She based her decision on last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that forced the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, even though it is harmless to humans and animals and is necessary to plant life.
Naturally, environmental groups are thrilled that another energy-producing project has been shut down. "We will be taking this decision and making the same arguments to push for an end to conventional coal," said Bruce Nilles of the Sierra Club, which is involved in legal challenges to the construction of about 30 coal-fired plants.
Since environmental groups also oppose nuclear power, we'd like to know if they have plans for providing energy to a world where electricity needs are growing. It seems that their solution is for everyone to live with less and like it.
For Patti Durand of the Sierra Club's Georgia chapter, it's "a new day" in the U.S. Yet between her expressions of glee, she still grumbled that it is "a scandal that energy companies are still trying to build coal plants even though they cause global warming."
The real scandal, however, is that she and others have conned the public — as well as five members of the Supreme Court — into believing that man is causing the planet to heat because of CO2 emissions. They've used conjecture, not scientifically proved fact, to create fear and instill a sense of guilt and duty in the public.
No matter how many power plant projects they block, environmentalists will have no effect on the planet's temperature. Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the Cato Institute, says that if implemented by every nation, the economy-choking Kyoto Treaty, which would do far more than shut down a few dozen power plants, would prevent warming by a mere seven-hundredths of a degree Celsius.
At 1,200 megawatts, the hijacked facility could have produced enough energy to power a million homes in Georgia, Alabama and Florida. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that it would have created "more than 100 high-paying jobs and millions in tax revenues" for Early County, the state's sixth-poorest.
A reasonable person would have to say those benefits far outweigh the risks of nontoxic gas emissions. Only an extremist would see it another way.
At some point, these lower court decisions need to be appealed to a higher court, and on to SCOTUS so they can take another look at that decision. If not, we are rapidly going to send ourselves back to the stone age over the myth (and Religion) of global warming and climate change.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Energy: A state judge has blocked construction of a power plant on grounds that its emissions permit does not set a cap on carbon dioxide. Global warming alarmism wins another round.
Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore of the Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court invalidated on Tuesday a government permit issued in 2007 for construction of a coal-fired plant in the southwestern part of the state.
She based her decision on last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that forced the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, even though it is harmless to humans and animals and is necessary to plant life.
Naturally, environmental groups are thrilled that another energy-producing project has been shut down. "We will be taking this decision and making the same arguments to push for an end to conventional coal," said Bruce Nilles of the Sierra Club, which is involved in legal challenges to the construction of about 30 coal-fired plants.
Since environmental groups also oppose nuclear power, we'd like to know if they have plans for providing energy to a world where electricity needs are growing. It seems that their solution is for everyone to live with less and like it.
For Patti Durand of the Sierra Club's Georgia chapter, it's "a new day" in the U.S. Yet between her expressions of glee, she still grumbled that it is "a scandal that energy companies are still trying to build coal plants even though they cause global warming."
The real scandal, however, is that she and others have conned the public — as well as five members of the Supreme Court — into believing that man is causing the planet to heat because of CO2 emissions. They've used conjecture, not scientifically proved fact, to create fear and instill a sense of guilt and duty in the public.
No matter how many power plant projects they block, environmentalists will have no effect on the planet's temperature. Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the Cato Institute, says that if implemented by every nation, the economy-choking Kyoto Treaty, which would do far more than shut down a few dozen power plants, would prevent warming by a mere seven-hundredths of a degree Celsius.
At 1,200 megawatts, the hijacked facility could have produced enough energy to power a million homes in Georgia, Alabama and Florida. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that it would have created "more than 100 high-paying jobs and millions in tax revenues" for Early County, the state's sixth-poorest.
A reasonable person would have to say those benefits far outweigh the risks of nontoxic gas emissions. Only an extremist would see it another way.
At some point, these lower court decisions need to be appealed to a higher court, and on to SCOTUS so they can take another look at that decision. If not, we are rapidly going to send ourselves back to the stone age over the myth (and Religion) of global warming and climate change.