Texas gives the world the shaft

 

KINDLY NOTE 'THE EFFECTIVE DATE' - February 6, 2007. Coal Fired Plants? Huh?

These people are the saddest mess I have ever witnessed.

Why am I getting the feeling the 'desperate' are running for the highest office in the land rather than 'the best' leadership that can be found in the country. Desperation has nearly caused a Constitutional Crisis. Habeous Corpus is already on the chopping block and why? Because it is necessary for reasons of National Security? No. Because it is an agenda for the political fodder of the Republican Party.

We are in danger of losing the benevolent nature of Earth. I guess if I had a whole lot of coal mines that no longer produced coal I would come up with a 'scare' tactic that would bring 'the wealthy genteel' to the forefront of reason.

But, to believe that alone only postpones the inevitable. The USA needs to radify Kyoto Protocol and set very tough carbon dioxide emission standards for the entire country. It is literally upto the USA to stop and reverse Human Induced Global Warming. We need to set those standards SPECIFICALLY for the continental USA as well as Alaska and Hawaii.

Preventing higher levels of carbon dioxide in other burgeoning economies is also the right thing to do, but, not exclusively the way to define the reduction in these emissions by the USA.

Absolutely not.

By providing advanced technology and alternative energies to other countries it only inappropriately displaces the contribution of the USA. Some of these countries don't have carbon dioxide emissions to control, yet. The exception is China, but, the population alone and it's new consumerism makes any effort blunted. By building these facilities the USA can displace it's own responsibilty for it's ESCALATING emissions. The USA has to bring it's OWN emissions to 1990 levels or less. We need to do this now.

Legislation to control this type of environmental abuse has to take place at the federal level and soon. To allow it to be defined as an 'election issue' is to postpone it's resolve forever. Time is of the essence and the USA is grossly negligent in it's responsibilty to Earth and our own well being.


Texas Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Plan (Click on title of entry for link. Thank you.)

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Final rule; approval of amendment.

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SUMMARY: We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
(OSM), are approving an amendment to the Texas abandoned mine land
reclamation plan (Texas plan) under the Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The Railroad Commission of
Texas (RCT or Commission) proposed to assume responsibility of the
abandoned mine land reclamation (AML) emergency program in Texas. The
Commission also proposed to revise the Texas plan by updating portions
to reflect its current practices and by removing references to its old
regulations (Texas Coal Mining Regulations (TCMR)) and replacing them
with references to its recodified regulations (16 Texas Administrative
Code (TAC)).

DATES: Effective Date: February 6, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael C. Wolfrom, Director, Tulsa
Field Office. Telephone: (918) 581-6430. E-mail address:
mwolfrom@osmre.gov.

Knock it off !!!

 

February 25, 2007

1430 z

GOES East Water Vapor Satellite (click on the above link for 12 hour loop)

The severe storms today across the USA are not caused exclusively by the current vortex over the country. It is 'accelerated' by the votex over the Atlantic. It is the North Atlantic Vortex that is causing the severity of this weather system to cause such devastation.


Two sided storm: midwest snow, southern tornadoes (click on)

WZZM 13/AP


Created: 2/25/2007 6:20:44 AM
Updated: 2/25/2007 7:56:51 AM


DENVER (AP) - The same winter storm that is affecting West Michigan today moved swiftly across the country Saturday, dumping more than a foot of snow on the Upper Midwest.

The National Weather Service says between 15 and 18 inches have fallen on parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

At least seven traffic deaths in Wisconsin are blamed on the weather. Thousands of people are without power in Iowa, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

The search is resuming Sunday morning in southern Arkansas for an undetermined number of people unaccounted for following yesterday's storms and tornadoes.

National Guard troops have been called in to help with the cleanup. At least 27 people were hurt amid heavy destruction in the town of Dumas, southeast of Little Rock.

The storms cut power, demolished businesses, flipped mobile homes and tossed cars into trees. People who were in a McDonald's took shelter in a walk-in freezer. A hospital passed out sandwiches to people waiting to be treated.

The mayor of Dumas says damage to the town's commercial and industrial district is so severe a lot of people are going to be out of work for a long time.

Officials in Colorado closed about 200 miles of Interstate 70 due to snow and slippery pavement. Whiteout conditions caused a 35-car pileup outside Denver.

More than 250 flights have been canceled at Chicago's two airports.



Storm rages across state, spawning tornadoes (click on)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON - A church in Indianola was nearly cut in half Saturday evening as a fierce storm swept across the state, spawning tornadoes, causing more than 9,000 power outages and leaving some structures heavily damaged.

The Sunflower County Sheriff's Office said a church on Highway 49 in Indianola had major water damage after its roof and some bricks were blown off. In the same town, a house's carport was ripped off, as high winds and tornadoes moved across the area.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office had reports of power outages after a tornado touched down in the county near the Arkansas border.

In Issaquena County a tree limb fell on the roof of a house.

No injuries were reported in any of the incidents.

According to WLBT, Entergy confirmed about 9,630 customers across the state lost power Saturday night. The news station said some of those customers may not get power back until late Sunday.

Satan resides in Texas and it feels good to say it.

 

Oil

Coal

Despots

Cattle Feedlots

Methane

Childhood Respiratory Disease to daunts the amount in the rest of the nation

Illegal immigrants and the abuse of their labor force

You name it and Texas produces it. Every dispicable form of economic exploitation with complete disregard for human dignity and well being. Whoever thought anyone would object to a woman's longevity with protects from crevical cancer. Where does it stop?

Texas houses the dregdes of American society. If any one society needs to examine it's own citizens, the USA needs to take pity on those in Texas still trying to 'have their way' and 'have it all.' They started a war for profit with complete disregard for human life.

If you think the 'Godly' of Texas aren't capable of such monsterous plans masked by the political rhetoric of the Bible Belt, you are sadly mistaken. The 'back room' hubris is interesting.

Always patriotic.

Always religiously righteous.

Always making the 'tough' decisions, that lead to THE EASY WAY OUT.

What would it take to melt the Arctic Ocean for the oil beneath it?

 

A whole HELL of a lot of carbon dioxide.

Agreed? It's happening though, isn't it? Who cared? The current President? The current Vice President?

No.

The countries that signed Kyoto Protocol were the first to step to the challenge of stopping and reversing the ravages of consumerism that would prove to destroy Earth's biotic benevolence.

Now.

I ask again.

What would a bunch of wealthy men from Texas want with so many coal fired power plants?

Longevity in providing GOOD service to the people of that state or a larger picture goal of not only profiteering the remainder of the Texas coal WHILE melting down an entire planet's ice cap in reaching for the oil that lie in abundance beneath it?

The people involved in this venture are highly immoral and desperate people with very short term goals of profit.

TXU to Curtail Coal Plants to Smooth Approval of Planned Buyout (click out)

By Edward Klump

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- TXU Corp., the biggest power producer in Texas, will curtail plans for coal-fired generators to win support from environmentalists for a proposed $44 billion buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group.

Dallas-based TXU has agreed to cancel eight of the 11 coal units it has planned and to support mandatory U.S. limits on power-plant pollution that contributes to global warming, said a statement from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The company will devote $400 million to cutting power demand in Texas, pleasing environmental groups that favor conservation.

``The new owners don't want to be your grandfather's power company,'' said David G. Hawkins, director of the environmental group's Climate Center. They will ``turn instead to cleaner sources of energy,'' he said yesterday in a phone interview.

The Western USA has very little coal compared to the Eastern USA

As of the year 2000, Texas had approximate 14% of the coal in the USA. That continued to fall off and Texas actually had a NEGATIVE contribution to the coal total in the USA.

So, what's up in Texas with all these coal fired plants?

Energy?

Nope.

Try again.

Irresponsible Citizenship

 

There just isn't that much coal in Texas. So, what's this lame excuse for a utility venture and what is the goal that most Texans will appreciate?

 

It's Sunday Morning

"Highway Robbery" by Dillinger Escape Plan

You'd never imagine us bringing a loaded gun to the ballroom this party's about to kick off tonight is the wrong night the devil's own are only starting up the first round of the fight so hang on tight dear mother the needle is jabbing the womb draw back and release this child of disease this mob is a riot the outlaw youth are only emptying the first round of the night 'cause everything's not alright I suppose you thought you had our hands behind our backs wool over our eyes now your pulse is in my palm and you stand hands to mouth wearing your disguise it's pretty apparent this boy is a curse the christ of the moment so blow him away hey come on and take the new number if you're next in line then kid I got a really big fucking surprise there won't be a next time