Wilson's Toxic Plant

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Charlie Wilson's Coal to Liquid Coal Plant: Bad for Wellsville, Ohio and Bad for You and your Children

September 2, 2008

On May 21, 2008, Charlie Wilson Issued the following press statement:
"I have been working hard to help bring a new coal-to-liquid plant to Wellsville," Wilson said. The Ohio River Clean Fuel's (ORCF) coal to liquid plant, managed by ORCF's parent company Baard Energy, will be a state of the art facility for Columbiana County which would turn coal into liquid diesel fuels and store carbon emissions which are harmful to the earth."
What Charlie Wilson failed to tell the public are the 10 bad things about this and the Baard Liquid Coal Plant:
1.   The cost of coal doubled since 2007. It is not cheap anymore.
2.   Last year, Congress prohibited the federal government from buying fuel that emits more CO2 than petroleum. It will be illegal for the Defense Department to Buy Baard's liquid coal, as the company has planned.
3.   Banks are refusing to invest in coal projects across the country. Over the past two years, several coal proposals have collapsed to due a lack of financing.
4.   Charlie Wilson's plant will emit enormous quantities of mercury, the very chemical known to cause metal retardation and autism in children.
5.   The plant will capture none of the carbon emissions it produces.
6.   Charlie Wilson's plant will draw coal and employ destructive mountaintop removal mining. The mountain tops that are dynamited will dumps waste rock into streams, contaminating drinking water.
7.   Replacing just 10% of our oil needs with liquid coal would require 43% increase in destructive coal mining.
8.   Emissions from Charlie Wilson's plant are doubled the co2 produced in our current crude oil system.
9.   The next Congress will almost pass legislation restricting carbon dioxide pollution, making this plant more expensive and less competitive with clean fuels.
10.   The air in Jefferson County is classified as highly polluted, so Charlie Wilson's plant will place it pollution sources a few meters into Columbiana County instead.

This is Charlie Wilson's Green Energy Program for our future. It won't hurt Charlie's family, he's a millionaire and lives in Washington. It will hurt your family in the sixth district.
   
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