Sierra campaign costs Michigan 50,000+ jobs, over a million nationwide.

[gsvol]

Sierra Club?s War on Coal Blamed for 53k Lost Jobs in Michigan [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

The state of Michigan has lost 53,587 jobs — 8th
highest in the country — due to the Sierra Club’s
campaign to shut down coal factories, according
to a report released by the National Mining Association.

The analysis claims the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal”
campaign, in which the environmental group files a
lawsuit against every coal plant in America seeking a
permit, has cost the country 116,872 permanent jobs
and 1.12 million construction jobs. Michigan’s job-loss
figure includes both permanent and construction jobs.

Here's the Drill [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Forbidding directional drilling was bad energy policy
then and it's bad energy policy now. Based on an
analysis prepared by the Senate Fiscal Agency in
2002, continuing the practice would have resulted
in an economic benefit to the state of approximately
$1 billion. Adjusted for the price of oil today, the
economic benefit of tapping Michigan's Great Lakes
reserves would be $3 billion to $4 billion.

State geologists estimate that approximately 30 wells
could be directionally drilled under the Great Lakes.

Directional drilling, also called slant drilling, is performed
at an angle, allowing placement of the well head onshore
rather than on a drilling platform in the lake. While
director of the Department of Environmental Quality in
1996, I was approached by oil companies interested in
exploring for oil and gas under the Great Lakes. After
consulting with then-Gov. John Engler, I asked the
Michigan Environmental Science Board (a group of
scientists mostly from universities with environmental
and natural resource expertise) to examine if directional
drilling under the Great Lakes posed any threat to
natural resources.

The Board concluded: "There is little to no risk of
contamination to the Great Lakes bottom or waters
through releases directly above the bottom hole portion
of directionally drilled wells." The Board went on to
say: "There is, however, a small risk of contamination
at the well head." The board made recommendations
on steps that could be taken to mitigate any impact
to the Great Lakes from the well head, including locating
the wells at least 1,000 feet from the shoreline and
implementing proper waste disposal measures. Before
the ban, eight wells had been directionally drilled
under the Great Lakes without environmental harm.

Even though environmental safeguards recommended
by the Michigan Environmental Science Board were put
in place, the Michigan Legislature still voted to ban
directional drilling under the Great Lakes. The day before
the vote, I received a call from a state senator who
apologized in advance for voting for the ban.

He acknowledged that directional drilling
posed no real environmental threat, but
told me that it was the right "political
vote."

Unfortunately, such actions are all too common among
state and federal legislators who would rather reap the
short-term perceived political benefit of appearing
"green" without taking responsibility for the long-term
damage done to energy supply and jobs.

 

[MG1968]

the green nazis are responsible for far more unemployment in this country than any CEO moving operations overseas

 

[gsvol]

Palin is the BEST candidate that will negate these idiotic green nazi
iniatives, and that is why she has been under such heave media and
legal attacks over the past three years.

EPA Regulations | Texas Company | Layoffs | The Daily Caller

Texas energy company Luminant announced on Monday new burdensome
Environmental Protection Agency regulations are forcing it to close several
facilities, which will result in about 500 job losses.

The company will be idling — stopping the usage of — two energy generating
units. It will also cease extracting lignite from three different Texas mines.

The EPA regulation Luminant cites as too burdensome is the new Cross-State
Air Pollution rule, which requires Texas power generators to make “dramatic
reductions” in emissions beginning on January 1, 2012.

“We have hundreds of employees who have spent their entire professional
careers at Luminant and its predecessor companies,” Luminant CEO David
Campbell said in a statement. “At every step of this process, we have tried
to minimize these impacts, and it truly saddens me that we are being compelled
to take the actions we’ve announced today. We have filed suit to try to avoid
these consequences.”

Obama loaded the TVA board with green nazis who settled out of court in
cases they could have won, enabling the EPA to have a precedent to dictate
the same sorts of policies nationwide.

Then too you have such insane policies as tearing down energy efficient,
non-poluting dams out west in order to enable slamon to run free, the
same salmon that could be raised in fish farms.

Of course the ethanol mandates are about as insane as it gets.

Nnot just that it is counter productive if one believes the oddball theory of
CO2, but now feed corn has tripled in price and that will cost you at the
gocery store, count on it.

When Obama promised energy prices would sky rocket he didn't mention
food prices, btw, all things being equal, just transprotation costs of
food products must increase the end price of all foods.

Think about it.

 

[TennTradition]

The "war" on coal is stopping natural gas drilling?
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[VOLatile]

The "war" on coal is stopping natural gas drilling?
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The only gripe that I've heard from the green campaign about natural gas is fracking.

 

[TennTradition]

The only gripe that I've heard from the green campaign about natural gas is fracking.

There are issues with it, but I'm confused about the connection to coal. There is methane in coal seams, but that still doesn't tie it into coal plants.
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[NEO]

There are issues with it, but I'm confused about the connection to coal. There is methane in coal seams, but that still doesn't tie it into coal plants.
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The marcellus shale in pa is quite a bit but there are groups that are trying to slow it down.

 

[VolsNSkinsFan]

Fracking is fine. Thousands of wells have been fracked and with only a handful of issues. "BeyondCoal" has issues with coal plants and the health issues the pollution causes.
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[TennTradition]

The marcellus shale in pa is quite a bit but there are groups that are trying to slow it down.

It does have a nice amount of natural gas, though the numbers have just been seriously contested - downgrading the potential reserves by as much as 80%. (Not 80% of what was thought...but 20% of what was originally thought to be there.)

My point is I don't get why the lead-in was about opposition to coal-fired power plants and then focused primarily on natural gas drilling. I was on my phone and didn't read the links in detail...maybe there was a connection, I was looking for someone who had read the articles closely to help me out with the connection.

 

[gsvol]

The tie in has to do with the state of Michigan.

Not only have coal fired plants been sabotaged,
directional drilling (primarily for natural gas) under
the great lakes has also been prevented.

We all know the underlying cause is the belief in
the AGW alarmist's propaganda campaign or the
belief by legislators that they may be defeated
in the next election if they don't go along with
this self- defeating agenda for our nation.

Furthermore this is a nationwide campaign waged
in court battles brought on by well funded special
interest groups.

We also know that the radical EPA agenda under the
Obama administration has mandated draconian regulations
with unrealistic time frames that are also killing energy
production efforts and that costs the American people
a lot of well paying jobs.

One could go on ad nauseum about the results of this
idiotic political agenda that is basically based on foolish
conjecture.

When Obama said that energy costs would skyrocket
under his watch, that is probably the only time he didn't
lie and he has been able to do it without the carbon
trading scheme ever being enacted.