Arkansas Blog

"The fight for the bottom revisited?" While most of the intelligent world is rejecting this money-grab by the energy industry, we fall meekly into the support of bidness at all costs! Will it never end?

So sad Suskie couldn't make the right call on this one. He's just another one of the good ole' boys. Odds on favorite to be working with one of the industries he regulates now within a few years.

Judge Harvel said that the SWEPCO plant would have no environmental effect on Texas which is true!

All environmental impact and polution will be downwind in Arkansas!!!

If I were king of the world I would require coal plants be upwind of power users. Also waste water would have to be released upstream of the user's intake.

That way the users would be self regulating on if polution level is acceptable.

Why should one person be able to pollute someone else's air or water?

but the company also needs approval from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality
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SWEPCO has said it will build the plant with or without a certificate from Texas regulators.
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If SWEPCO doesn't intend to honor Texas Regulators, why are they asking for permission in the first place?

Does anyone have any suggestions of the best way to put up a fuss with Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality?

>>If I were king of the world I would require coal plants be upwind of power users. Also waste water would have to be released upstream of the user's intake.<<

Well just move to NWA, to Fayetteville-Rogers-Eureka Springs and all small surrounding towns. Fayetteville discharges its waste into the White River UPSTREAM from the water intake that serves 300,000.

There's so many implications with this judge's ruling. If SWEPCO ignores the Texas judge and builds the polluting monster anyway does that mean the entire cost will go to people like me and Cato?

Glad the veil was stripped away about NEED. They need to make a profit selling to wholesalers.
Now that the NEED bullshit is gone what say you Citizen Journal?
Even RWing, bidness friendly Texas can see thru this facade.

God, I love cheap electricity --- and lots of it. SWEPCO has always been a good neighbor, helped recruit industry and jobs to our area. The Duchy of Pulaski is just jealous it is "served" by a different company. As for me, let 'em built TWO plants at McNab if they can just find the space.

elWood

I don't remember seeing Citizen's Journal post here in a while. I figured he was on the road with Huckabee wanting to change the constitution to fit his Journal.

2,400 acres will hold another 600 megawatt generator with room to spare. It's calculated to increase global warming by itself to a point where it will cause strong warming winds from the south that will blow all the greenhouses gases straight north.