Obama’s environmental balancing act
Last week, The New York Times provided some additional insight into President-elect Obama’s upcoming obstacles. The chief challenge: striking “the right balance between his environmental goals and his plans to revive the economy.”
This balance is something we’re all striving for. At ACCCE, we understand that there’s no silver energy buckshot. The president-elect himself has recognized the critical role that technology will play in an emerging climate policy, and we strongly support his plan to invest in the demonstrations of full commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects.
Keeping our options open sounds like a good strategy to me—especially given that 50 percent of our electricity is produced using coal. I’m not sure why anyone else would suggest doing anything to the contrary.
On May 22, 2008 David from ACCCE posted this reply in response to a question as to whether this blog would post comments which differed from the viewpoint of ACCCE. "This is a place to discuss America's energy future. All comments are welcome (so long as they use appropriate language)."
On January 8, 2009 I tried to post a comment to this blog entry which was critical of clean coal in general and asked why there has not been any statement about the coal ash spill at the TVA Kingston plant in Tennessee however no inappropriate language was used. It has not been posted.
Just curious as to why.
Jason
Posted by: Jason | January 09, 2009 at 03:12 PM
Mr. Burns,
It's been over 2 weeks and still no blog entry about the billion gallons of ash waste spilled at the TVA Kingston Plant.
Oh I forgot it was "Clean" ash waste. Because nothing's cleaner than 40 acre pool of toxins and metals. Yessir voluntary standards and almost non-existent enforcement are the only things needed since power plants always have the best interests of their customers in mind.
Give my regards to Blinky.
Posted by: Jason | January 09, 2009 at 03:12 PM