Monday, April 14, 2008

04/14/2008 TO Enviro-news

Global Warming Has a New Battleground: Coal Plants
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408F.shtml
Judy Pasternak, of The Los Angeles Times, writes: "Every time a new coal-fired power plant is proposed anywhere in the United States, a lawyer from the Sierra Club or an allied environmental group is assigned to stop it, by any bureaucratic or legal means necessary. They might frame the battle as a matter of zoning or water use, but the larger war is over global warming: Coal puts twice as much temperature-raising carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as natural gas, second to coal as the most common power plant fuel."

Big Oil to Big Wind: Texas Veteran Sets Up $10 Billion Clean Energy Project
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041408G.shtml
Ed Pilkington writes for The Guardian UK: "This month [T Boone Pickens] will make the first down payment on 500 wind turbines at a cost of $2m each. The order is the first material step towards his goal of building the world's largest wind farm. Over the next four years he intends to erect 2,700 turbines across 200,000 acres of the Texan panhandle. The scheme is five times bigger than the world's current record-holding wind farm and when finished will supply 4,000 megawatts of electricity - enough to power about one million homes."

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