Below is an older story from the Athens News about this very thing. Click on the picture for the story.
Well, they're now trying a different approach. Now they've got a Michael Moore type "documentary" being passed around by the cyber hippies.
I thought it might be a bad idea to give this biased, one sided "documentary" any exposure. However, I feel the folks in southeastern Ohio need to know the type of people that are trying to keep us poor and without work. These, so called, environmentalists apparently can't remember what it was like around here when we were really poor. Septic tanks? Didn't have any. Trash pick up? right. What do they think happened to the trash? Poor people had better things to do that worry about the environment, like keeping the crows out of the corn so they could eat in the winter.
But I digress, back to this "documentary". If you don't have 30 minutes, just go to the next post and forget this one. It takes about 30 minutes to view this "piece of work". I'd encourage those of you that live in Meigs, Galia and Athens counties to view this. If you are out of work and hoping to get a job at this power plant, you'll want to see what type of people want to keep you out of work.
This one is 2:48 minutes. here's the link. Watch the wild eyed crazy man. Apparently he didn't take his meds. This is the Al Gore lunatic part of the "environmentalist" movement.
This one is about 27 minutes long. It's the educated, smooth talking, we're smarter than you part of the "environmentalist" movement.
They both play heavy on emotionalism and little on logic, reason or facts.
Below are my comments that I jotted down while viewing this "documentary". If you haven't viewed the "documentaries" you'll have no idea what I'm saying... so go back up and view the first one. Then open another session and view the second one while looking at the comments below.
These comments are concerning the 2nd, longer, so called "documentary".
- Notice the horse and buggy. This is where they want to take us. Back to horse powered lives. Have you noticed though, that none of them drive horse and buggies? What kind of examples are they setting?
- Most of the women in Yellow Springs apparently use the same barber as the men.
- Yellow Springs gets 35% of their electricity from "renewable" sources. However, their "renewable" sources are drying up. How can that be? Is it renewable / sustainable or not? Note: we haven't run out of COAL.
- CJ Williams (co-owner of Living Green, really) believes we are going to be "kicked off this earth" if we use coal.
- Brian Chase mentions the "controversy" in Meigs county. It's not the locals causing this, it's outside agitators.
- Pulverized coal means nothing more than putting lumpy coal through a mill that basically grinds the coal into a fine dust. It can then be injected using air, for a clean, efficient and clean burn.
- The big, wide short stacks are cooling towers. The mist coming out of them is water vapor.
- "This plant will be the fifth power plant in the area" So? It's much safer and "environmentally friendly" to transport electricity via transmission lines than trucking coal to a power plant hundreds of miles away. Of course, they don't really care where it's built, they're against any new coal plant.
- Is the guy in the green shirt getting ready to plant marijuana? What's he holding?
- Elisa Young: On her way back from New Mexico, where she attended a Buddhist Boot camp?
- Coal Gasification: She makes it sound bad. It's making the coal into a gas form, so it will burn cleaner and is in an easier form to use. Cleaner is what they say they want, but again, they really want us to not use coal at all.
- "Contaminated water": The water is treated to as good, if not better condition than when it was brought into the plant. The OEPA is very strict and forces compliance.
- Am I the only one that thinks that the group hanging out with her haven't bathed for a month?
- Nothing meaningful happening in the legislature or the regulatory process? What she means is nothing meaningful that she wants.....from her perspective. Locals think that 3,000 construction jobs are meaningful. They also feel that hundreds of operations (full time) jobs are meaningful.
- "If I wouldn't have moved out here, I never would have looked into this issue." Yes, you heard it right, she moved there....on purpose....and now wants Meigs County to conform to her wishes. (though later in the "documentary" she talks about some of her family being from there).
- "you've got this whole student movement of conscious" (vs. unconscious?) "people who are moved to action whether or not they are directly impacted. (so these Trotskyites are just down here protesting to be protesting? Is this an assignment from some hippie professor in Athens?).
- Is that vehicle she's driving propelled by fossil fuels? If she's against using dried up dead dinosaurs for fuel, she also should be against using liquefied dead dinosaurs. She's in a conundrum, if she gets an all electric car, she'd be a 100% hypocrite....rather than partial one like now. A little walking probably would be a good thing any way.
- Notice all the shots of schools and play ground equipment. This Reeverts fellow must want a job with NBC the way he tries to influence the audience away from the facts.......what he really needed was an OEA member crying that it's all about the children.....just like they do when it's levy time....digressing again.
- She's worried about global warming? Get with the times sister, now it's Climate Change. If you'd read this blog, you'd know that.
- More shots of playgrounds. Barney the dinosaur looks cool.
- Townships using slag on roads? So?
- She keeps speaking for "our community". She's not...she can't. The vast majority of Meigs county wants the new power plant. She shouldn't give the impression that she speaks for "our community". If she wants to speak for Meigs County, she needs to run for Commissioner.
- What's insane is sitting on massive stock piles of energy and not using them, while at the same time, buying oil from people that want to kill us.
- The guy in the welding hat sure doesn't have any logical reasons not to build a power plant or mine coal.
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Thanks for putting this together. I do think some of this stuff, especially those protesters, is a bit one-sided, and it takes an assured person to link to that kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteI do disagree with some of the things you said though. I'm young (25) and am concerned about what coal means for our economy, like for when I get old and when my kids get old. I know those new mines are gonna dry up within a couple decades, and I know coal is, in the end, temporary (I've seen estimates suggesting we have used most of the coal in the U.S, already, even though we still have a bunch left).
With the economy and environment as it is (bad!), it seems like we've only got one shot here. I think we should invest in renewable energy, which lasts longer, employs more people, and is cleaner and safer on the environment and future generations.
What could we do to attract some other kinds of industries, like wind turbine manufacturing, to Meigs County? The river is great for transporting materials, and goodness knows we've got the workforce for something like that...
I agree with Mattie, and then some.
ReplyDeleteSeems rather silly for this original post to be so blatantly personal and inflammatory when the alternatives to coal -- efficient buildings, solar, wind, geothermal, and sensible architecture -- all produce more jobs, more local revenue, and greater economic multipliers than coal. Coal was banned in the City of London in the 13th century because it is so harmful to people's health. Is someone paying you to clog up the blogosphere with this nonsense? The only person you're embarrassing is yourself.
Paul