Coal Plants In East, Central Texas Will Harm DFW Air Quality
By Vince Leibowitz on Feb 11, 2007 in Texas Environment
I can’t say I’m surprised by this:
Pollution created by new power plants planned for East and Central Texas will harm Dallas-Fort Worth’s air quality and probably put Waco and Austin in violation of federal clean-air laws for the first time.
All this comes from a UT Austin study released on Friday. Power plant opponents say it is the most “comprehensive analysis” yet of the problems the power plants will bring.
To wit:
It’s also the first to demonstrate that Waco and Austin, and even the Tyler-Longview area 150 miles southeast of Fort Worth, could be dramatically affected by the power plants’ pollution.
Woah. That’s problematic. Air quality in East Texas has been getting worse every year with more cars, factories, etc. If you suffer from allergies or respiratory difficulties of various types and have lived in East Texas all your life, you can tell this has happened.
Of course, the power plant folks say the study isn’t objective because it was commissioned by the Texas Clean Air Coalition, a group of cities fighting the coal plants.
Sorry, but I don’t think a UT researcher is going to sell their soul for Laura Miller or Bill White. The coal power plant crowd probably thinks global warming is a fairy tail, too.
You think you could find any UT professor that hasn’t drunk the “global warming” kool-aide? I’m sure that was the best report money could buy. I wonder why they didn’t also report on the effects of electrical blackouts?
Ah, a “global warming denier”. Wonderful. Do yourself a favor - pull your head out of the sand, put down that copy of Soldier of Fortune, and grab yourself a “Science News”, “Scientific American”, “Popular Science” or just about ANY non-political publication about science, and you’ll see a universal consensus that global warming is real, and that it’s caused by human activity. The only controversy left is whether or not mankind can reverse it.
Blackouts can be avoided by conservation - especially on the part of business users, who tend to overload the grid during hours of peak demand. Google “Demand Response” for another solution.
Nobody has drunk any “kool-ade” here, except the people who deny solid scientific evidence and decades of climate monitoring.