Re: North Dakota Officials Block Wind Power In Effort To Save Coal

On 2/25/21 10:13 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
> North Dakota has lots of coal. It also has strong and consistent winds.
> It might be the perfect spot to showcase the long-awaited "energy
> transition" from climate-warming fossil fuels to climate-saving renewables.
> 
> Yet that transition has hit a snag. Two counties in the state have
> enacted drastic restrictions on new wind projects in an attempt to save
> coal mining jobs, despite protests from landowners who'd like to rent
> their land to wind energy companies. It's a sign of how difficult that
> transition can be for communities that depend on coal for jobs and tax
> revenue. The economic benefits of wind power, even though substantial,
> often flow to different people.
> 
> The dispute erupted last year when Great River Energy, a rural electric
> cooperative based in Minnesota, announced that it planned to sell its
> Coal Creek Station, north of Bismarck, ND. If no buyer showed up, the
> company said it would shut the plant down in 2022. A coal mine that
> supplies the plant with fuel also would have to close. Roughly a
> thousand jobs would disappear.
> 
> "This has been a heart-breaking decision," said David Saggau, the
> company's CEO, speaking by video to the North Dakota Lignite Council,
> which represents North Dakota's mining industry. Yet Saggua told the
> miners that he had little choice, because the coal plant couldn't
> compete with cheaper electricity from other sources, mainly natural gas.
> 
> That step cut the company's losses, but it also opened up an intriguing
> new possibility. "We realized there was an opportunity right away," says
> Beth Soholt, executive director of the Clean Grid Alliance, based in
> Minnesota.
> 
> The opportunity lay in a high-capacity transmission line that runs all
> the way from Coal Creek Station to Minneapolis. Closing Coal Creek would
> free up that line, sweeping aside one of the key roadblocks that have
> slowed the growth of wind energy in North Dakota.
> 
> "It's no secret that one of the barriers to development is a lack of
> transmission capacity to move the wind- or solar-produced electricity
> from where it's produced to where it needs to be used," Soholt says.
> 
> Great River Energy, in fact, wanted to build huge wind farms around Coal
> Creek — a combined generating capacity of 800 megawatts — to take
> advantage of that transmission line.
> 
> That's when Ladd Erickson stepped in. He's the attorney for McClean
> County, North Dakota, where the coal plant is located, and he launched a
> battle over access to that power line. "The transmission line is
> everything," he says. "It's the golden goose."
> 
> Erickson wants to keep Coal Creek Station open, because it's a pillar of
> the local economy. Other political leaders in North Dakota do, too.
> They're looking for a company willing to buy the plant and keep it
> running. And in the meantime, they don't want wind companies claiming
> that transmission line. "Without a transmission line, there's no value
> in the plant," Erickson says.
> 
> Two counties next to Coal Creek Station moved quickly to keep wind
> companies from getting access to the line. McClean County adopted new
> rules that allowed the county to deny permits for feeder lines from new
> wind farms. Mercer County, next door, passed a two-year moratorium on
> new wind projects.
> 
> https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/965775584/north-dakota-officials-block-wind-power-in-effort-to-save-coal
> 
> 
> Fucking backward benighted red-state-shithole Republiscums.  You can
> always count on them to do the wrong thing.  They never disappoint.
> 


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> Getting rid of the coal is the right thing to do.

If you don't mind killing people like Marxist Mao did in China during
his *GREAT LEAP FORWARD* where "Mao decided" to change the way they
farmed and he forced millions and millions onto collective farms and
took the land away from the private farmers....

Go look up THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD and you'll find that the IMPROVED
FARMING and FAKE SCIENCE and FAKE PRODUCTION of FOOD THAT WAS TO SAVE
ALL THE Chinese people ended up starving 40 million to death.


Do you think that the Marxist Collectivism of energy and their FAKE
SCIENCE of GLOBAL WARMING, leading to the GREAT ENERGY LEAP FORWARD
won't end with MILLIONS of Americans freezing to death and dying of the
heat without air conditioning for the sick and most vulnerable?

Stupidity repeats and history repeats and so the history of stupid is
about to repeat as the FAKE SCIENCE MISTAKE is repeated.

Because without the truth.... stupid is the only thing that will come
from trying to fix any problem by using lies to decide what needs to be
done.


Will "you" dance with the devil in the pale moon light.....








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