TVA users expect drastic electric rate increases.

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Fuel Fix TVA will reduce its coal operations to settle lawsuit

The Tennessee Valley Authority over the next five years will shutter operations that account for about 16 percent if its coal-fired capacity to settle lawsuits from several states over air quality, its board said Thursday.

TVA chief executive Tom Kilgore said the nation’s largest public utility will also pay a $10 million civil penalty under the agreement with the states, the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups.

The shutdowns starting in 2012 include all 10 units at Johnsonville Fossil Plant and two units at John Sevier Fossil Plant in Tennessee, along with six units at Widows Creek Fossil Plant in Alabama. Kilgore said the moves will phase out 2,700 megawatts of TVA’s 17,000 megawatts of coal-fired capacity by 2017.
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“This is the largest coal retirement agreement the nation has ever seen,” said Bruce Niles, the Sierra Club’s deputy conservation director.
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The agreement also calls for TVA to spend $350 million on environmental projects over the next five years.
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It requires TVA to invest up to $5 billion on new and upgraded state-of-the-art pollution controls ....
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Kilgore said the timing of his decision to stop the legal fighting that began in 2009 was not related to the change in presidential administrations and the prospect of new environmental enforcement.

But Niles said “for eight years the Bush administration refused to enforce the Clean Air Act.” Under Jackson’s watch at the EPA, “they are playing catchup.”

Bear in mind that Obama has stacked the TVA Board with radical environmentalists.

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I figured this conversation would eventually turn this way, so I'm saving you the effort of having to search for pictures.
 
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Kilgore said the moves will phase out 2,700 megawatts of TVA’s 17,000 megawatts of coal-fired capacity by 2017.

About half of that 2700 MW will be replaced next year or in 2013 when Watts Bar Unit #2 gets online.
 
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I figured this conversation would eventually turn this way, so I'm saving you the effort of having to search for pictures.

That wouold be you in the back, third from the left,
I would recognize your stinking ass anywhere.

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how many jobs will this cost also?

It's in the link, I forgot, several hundred.



About half of that 2700 MW will be replaced next year or in 2013 when Watts Bar Unit #2 gets online.

Thanks, that's nice.

TVA has also agreed to buy a certain amount of MW from wind sources.

The only problem is, gee whiz, the windmills are all
so far away.

The plains states are really the only option that
can supply that kind of power but the infrastructure
doesn't exist.

That is, transmission lines from there to the TVA grid.
 
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Those 1 terabyte external hard drives come in handy for something.

1? C'mon, give me credit for at least 10.

My best regards to the McGhee family, how is Dirty Dingus getting along?? Tell him I said hi!

The mission statement below is from Institute for Environmental Security.

The IES is associated with the Club of Rome and Agenda 21 and are basically instruments of the world central banking system that intends to run the whole world in a feudalistic manner. (at least according to Carroll Quigley, Bubba Clinton's mentor.)

This article is the first of a series detailing the activities of this organization.

Part 1 will outline the "Potentially catastrophic climate impacts on food production over the long-term".

Part 2 will cover energy will show a correlation between the geography of the Jasmine Revolution of North Africa and this group's plans.

"The Institute for Environmental Security (IES) is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002 in The Hague, (which Rosary Joe Biden said would be a dandy place for a world capitol.) in order to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development."

Food and energy: everything hinges on these two items. The government excludes both of them from our inflation rate but we are all feeling its effects as their prices increase daily in our country.

Control food and energy (not to mention money supply) and you control countries, economies and people. As the following quotes from the article outline, climate change will be used to respond to the issue of "food security":

Nevermind that the scientific facts refute the theory of "climate change" or "global warming".

Nevermind that mandated ethonol use is detrimental to the climate (according to their own theory) and that it puts a lot of needless pressure on food supply, it does make sense in an Orwellian sort of way.

The plan to subjugate people using food and energy is the "change" that we hoped would not materialize. As we are preoccupied with political and media misdirection, we must not lose sight of our loss of individual freedom and its consequences.

IES News Potentially catastrophic climate impacts on food production over the long-term Food security merits greater space in the climate change agenda.

(would one of you guys that really know it all, and don't deny yourself this opportunity, thre are several of you scoffers who daily denigrate me, please define "climate change agenda????") gs

31 March 2011, Rome - "Potentially catastrophic" impacts on food production from slow-onset climate changes are expected to increasingly hit the developing world in the future and action is needed now to prepare for those anticipated impacts, FAO warned today in a submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"Currently the world is focused on dealing with shorter-term climate impacts caused mainly by extreme weather events," said Alexander Müller, FAO Assistant-Director General for Natural Resources.

"This is absolutely necessary," he continued. "But 'slow-onset' impacts are expected to bring deeper changes that challenge the ecosystem services needed for agriculture, with potentially disastrous impacts on food security during the period from 2050 to 2100. Coping with long-term changes after the fact doesn't make much sense. We must already today support agriculture in the developing world to become more resilient," he said.

"While these changes occur gradually and take time to manifest themselves, we can't simply ignore them," said Müller, adding: "We need to move beyond our usual tendency to take a short-term perspective and instead invest in the long-term."

In its submission, FAO outlines steps that governments could consider in climate change negotiations to ensure that food security is not threatened.

Food insecurity as an indicator of vulnerability to climate change

FAO recommends that food security be used as an indicator of vulnerability to climate change.

Food production systems, and the ecosystems they depend on, are highly sensitive to climate variability and climate change. Changes in temperature, precipitation and related outbreaks of pest and diseases can reduce production. Poor people in countries that depend on food imports are particularly vulnerable to such effects.

"If we're looking to assess vulnerability to climate change, it makes very good sense to look at food security as one important indicator," said Müller. The FAO submission to the UNFCC added that “Food insecurity could be an indicator, within a broader methodology for assessing vulnerability to extreme events and slow-onset changes. FAO work on food insecurity, including its annual publication The State of Food Insecurity, prepared jointly with WFP, its work on Feeding the World in 2050 and its contribution, in the context of “Africa, Climate Change, Environment and Security” (ACCES)* to a vulnerability discussion paper wherein food security vulnerability is used as an indicator of vulnerability to climate change, could be utilized in this regard.

* Since January 2011, the Institute for Environmental Security has been serving as the International Secretariat for the Africa, Climate Change, Environment and Security” (ACCES) dialogue process.

If black Africans thought colonialism, apartheid and such was bad or that despotic black rulers are even worse, just wait until the international secretariat of Africa takes complete control.
 

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