Thanks Barack 3 West Virginia Coal Plants to Close

[Care4all]

Thanks Barack… 3 West Virginia Coal Plants to Close | The Gateway Pundit

Three West Virginia coal plants just announced they will close this year. Metro News reported: Ohio based FirstEnergy Corporation announces it will close three coal fired power plants in West Virginia by this fall. The closings come directly from the impact of new federal EPA regulations. The plants to close are Albright Power Station, Willow Island Power Station, and the Rivesville Power Station. The company says 105 employees will be directly impacted. The three plants produce 660 megawatts and about 3-percent of FirstEnergy’s total generation. In recent years, the plants served as “peaking facilities” and generated power during times of...

They've been given up to 5 years to clean up their act though...that's a pretty long time..... plus the opportunity to "average" their pollution by adding in all plants together, clean ones and piss poor ones....

you would THINK that the coal industry would not just close a plant instead of trying to make it work in the 5 years they could be given to do such.............

Mercury poison's all of our fish, so this DOES affect everyone, NOT just the 100 people being let go by the plants....the coal industry, CHOSE to retire.

They had more time then that. Bush kiboshed the EPA during his 2 terms..but it was well known this was coming.

no, I am saying, from this point onward...the EPA just put these regulations in this past month, so when the regs finally got issued, these coal companies have 3 years with an additional 2 extensions possible, to make these plants compliant to the rule...that's 5 years total from basically starting today.....

I know these are older proposals and they just got done airing them to the public and redoing them some to comply with what some of the public wanted....but the rule for these regulations just "passed" so to say and was just issued..... the coal plants can get 5 years from today, to comply....but they just threw their hands up and quit, NOW....they CHOSE to close the plants, Obama or the EPA did not....the EPA rule gave them plenty of time to come in to compliance in the future and they gave them an "out" with the companies being allowed to "average" their pollution with other cleaner plants operating within the companies....

tampa electric had a situation like this and was given the 5 years to correct their situation and they chose to go another route, they not only became EPA compliant with the Clean air Act, they did it in record time, beating their time period for compliance by 3 years and they were still profitable after the change and compliance too....

 

[daveman]

Ah so private interests can poison and kill the public and the public has no other recourse then to wait for the private interest to decide when enough people are dead?

Good stuff.

Hope you guys run on that.

Oh wait..you already do.

Yes, the eeeevil KKKorporations want to kill all their customers. That will maximize profits.

Sure looks that way..

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It would -- to an idiot.