Why Are Some Groups Against Technology?

                                    

Here's a story coming out of southwest Georgia that makes you question the effort of environmentalists who try to block construction of modern coal plants.

Developers have plans to build a coal-based power plant with modern pollution controls. The facility, which Longleaf Energy Associates plans to build in rural Early County, would use the most up-to-date scrubbing technology.

Environmental groups — including the Sierra Club, GreenLaw and Friends of the Chattahoochee — tried to block the company from building the plant. That's right — environmentalists wanted to stand in the way of a plant with state-of-the-art pollution controls.

Well a state court ruled last week that environmentalists had no grounds to fight the plant. Click here for the ruling, which rejected the arguments from the various groups.

I hope this decision means that more and more people are seeing that clean coal projects can provide affordable and reliable electricity to meet our nation's ever growing energy demands while keeping our environment cleaner that it has been in decades.