Vindicator Editorials are Pure Fiction when it comes to “Clean Coal”

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Vindicator Editorials are Pure Fiction when it comes to "Clean Coal"

December 14, 2008

Tuesday's Vindicator Editorial "Coal to Liquid Fuel project Meets Obama's Energy Goal" has to be the most ill-informed editorial ever written by Dennis Mangan and Bertram de Souza. These guys should begin writing fiction novels.

Just last week Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, the League of Conservation Voters, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club launched the "Reality" Coalition, a national grassroots and advertising effort to tell a simple truth: there is no such thing as "clean coal." The coalition is arguing that coal cannot be considered clean until its carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored, and that until coal is truly clean, there should be no new coal-fired power plants built in America. The Baard plant in Wellsville, Ohio CANNOT capture and store carbon dioxide. Even Baard's CEO admitted this at a press conference last week.

"The coal industry has spent hundreds of millions promoting 'clean coal' technology, but in reality, there is not a single large-scale demonstration project in the United States for capturing and safely burying all of coal's CO2 emissions," Gore said. "The industry must make good its promise if they truly want to do their part to solve the climate crisis. Until that happens, coal cannot be called 'clean.'"

Mangan and de Souza wants to sell newspapers to the "thousands" that plan to move into Columbiana County to work at the plant. Al Gore wants to save the planet.

Who do you believe?  I'll bet my twenty on Gore.

Sincerely,

Dennis S. Spisak

Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party

www.ohiogreens.org

www.votespisak.org/thinkgreen/