Comments for CLECO fights back on coal ash contamination claim at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.theind.com Thu, 23 May 2013 18:33:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6880-cleco-fights-back-on-coal-plant-contamination-claim#comment-10293 Plumpy, "click" brrrrrrr, you hear that, OBAMA & LISA and CHU, just lowered their AC units, so turn your AC up, and help save our planet ! No-one ever died of lung cancer breathing depleted gas fumes, what about coal residue ? - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:54:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6880-cleco-fights-back-on-coal-plant-contamination-claim#comment-10262 If people would cut back on their electric usage. We wouldn't need these coal monster's. I pray that our heroic president Obama is reading Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and the Sierra Club report. Hopefully our Energy chief Dr. Steven Chu and EPA chief Lisa Jackson will band together and shut down these EARTH KILLER'S... - Plumpy Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:16:35 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6880-cleco-fights-back-on-coal-plant-contamination-claim#comment-10259 There is a coal mine in Louisiana, not far from the Dolet Hills power plant. Remember Mansfield's Historic Civil War Battlefield? Well part of it was destroyed to get at the coal. It is not a dense high-grade coal, it's is the worst polluting type of coal, but it is coal. Coal is only "cheaper" because a great quantity of the pollution generated by coal-mining and coal-burning is not regulated or poorly enforced if regulated, unlike some of the other extraction sectors which have previously confronted problems in the past and somewhat successfully have seen cleanup take place to remediate ground water problems generated at disposal cites, and rules put in place since 1970 per law to begin tackling these problems. Coal however, is allowed to remove mountain tops, over 500 in Appalachia, and surface mines elsewhere, upon which point the rules in place if any, allow for what amounts to long term disruption of people's ground water, surface water in creeks and rivers, and the loss of the land they sit on, because they did not own the "mineral rights" beneath which trumped their land ownership rights. Coal also through this sloppy disposal process upon burning, essentially is again, externalizing all community, citizen and environmental costs onto us individually, our families and on the public treasury. There is no $20 Billion BP fund for this one, yet it is spread throughout this country. Many of us don't know about it, because we don't live next to it. Consider this though, if your water comes from a ground source or a surface source that becomes polluted, your city will pay more for treatment, if it can. If it cannot, EPA might put a fine on the water utility, which then means either your local government has to borrow more money, or the federal government will borrow more money to grant it back to the locals to pay for the improvements. One way or another, this COSTS US in the end. The only solution is to put the REAL COST of using coal as an electricity source INTO the cost of the kilowatt hour generated by coal. When that happens, investing in efficiency will make a lot more sense, as will other less-polluting and other more renewable systems of power generation. But you all know, this is Louisiana, and we sure love to be dumped on, so just keep it coming, will keep taking the cancers and the mental-neurological problems and we'll keep passing a good time. - Jason D. Faulk Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:21:23 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6880-cleco-fights-back-on-coal-plant-contamination-claim#comment-10257 State regulators would probably never agree to a regulated utility owning natural gas fields and burning that gas in their own plants since the price of the fuel is passed on to the the customer. Customers would be exposed to over priced gas. It is my understanding that state regulators do encourage utilities to hedge their fuel purchases. We all want a cleaner environment until we find out our electric bill is going up due to increased environmental controls on power plants. - JamesR Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:07:53 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6880-cleco-fights-back-on-coal-plant-contamination-claim#comment-10250 What?-- I'm not sure, but I think coal is the cheapest fuel for power plants available. I think the price of coal is quite a bit less volatile than natural gas, too. Now, if a utility could develop its own natural gas fields, that would insulate it from price fluctuations alot better than hedging in the commodity futures market. But the federal government won't allow that. - ragin_cajun Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:55:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6880-cleco-fights-back-on-coal-plant-contamination-claim#comment-10243 It is often cheaper to burn Powder River Basin coal than natural gas. We all want a cleaner environment until we find out our electric bill is going up due to increased environmental controls on power plants. Fuel related expenses are generally passed on to the customer. - Reply to What: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:42:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6880-cleco-fights-back-on-coal-plant-contamination-claim#comment-10235 ? Why is there a coal fired plant in Louisiana in the first place? As far as I know there are no coal mines in our state, but plenty of natural gas... - What? Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:21:32 +0100