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Obama EPA kills power plant, 3,900 jobs in Texas

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Now I understand why Obama didn't mention jobs in his speech the other day.


[h=1]Obama EPA kills power plant, 3,900 jobs in Texas
January 24, 2013 | 9:56 am

Chase Power, the parent company behind the $3 billion Las Brisas coal power plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, announced yesterday that it was cancelling the project.

“Chase Power … has opted to suspend efforts to further permit the facility and is seeking alternative investors as part of a plan of dissolution for the parent company,” Chase CEO Dave Freysinger told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

Freysinger made it very clear who was responsible for the projects death. “The (Las Brisas Energy Center) is a victim of EPA’s concerted effort to stifle solid-fuel energy facilities in the U.S., including EPA’s carbon-permitting requirements and EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for new power plants,” he said
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Obama EPA kills power plant, 3,900 jobs in Texas | WashingtonExaminer.com
 
Now I understand why Obama didn't mention jobs in his speech the other day.




Obama EPA kills power plant, 3,900 jobs in Texas | WashingtonExaminer.com

Holy misleading headline. A more accurate headline would be CEO blames own failure on Obama and EPA with no supporting evidence. Las Brisas project halted » Corpus Christi Caller-TimesHe had problems getting past state level standards. Good to see the Beltway Confidential continues it's fine record of lies and deception.
 
Holy misleading headline. A more accurate headline would be CEO blames own failure on Obama and EPA with no supporting evidence. Las Brisas project halted » Corpus Christi Caller-TimesHe had problems getting past state level standards. Good to see the Beltway Confidential continues it's fine record of lies and deception.

That line of bull came from a former EPA official who heads the Sierra Club’s national “Beyond Coal” campaign. The truth is, Las Brisas applied for its air permit in May 2008 and received approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in January 2011. The only issues that were holding them up were national ones based on new EPA standards.

Las Brisas project halted » Corpus Christi Caller-Times
 
That line of bull came from a former EPA official who heads the Sierra Club’s national “Beyond Coal” campaign. The truth is, Las Brisas applied for its air permit in May 2008 and received approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in January 2011. The only issues that were holding them up were national ones based on new EPA standards.

Las Brisas project halted » Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Actually they still had problems with Texas. From my already supplied link:

The air quality issue culminated in July, when Travis County District Court Judge Stephen Yelenosky ordered the TCEQ to take a more in-depth look at the permit, particularly where it addressed the way the company planned to handle, store and transport petroleum coke onto the site, and the commission’s failure to review the plant according to the latest National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Your story is nothing but a CEO blaming others for his failures in true conservative fashion.
 
Not to mention that coal power plants are geing completely destroyed by natural gas prices plummeting.

Coal Loses Crown As King Of Power Generation

Just a few years ago, Georgia Power generated nearly three-fourths of its electricity with coal. Last year, for the first time, natural gas edged out coal, and just this week the company announced plans to close 10 coal-fired power generators within the next few years.

The dramatic and swift shift away from coal at Georgia Power is part of a nationwide trend: After decades in which coal was king of electricity generation, natural gas is making a bid for the title. And it's scoring big, unexpected wins in places like Georgia, where coal was especially dominant.​

Lying douche boss is a lying douche boss.
 
Actually they still had problems with Texas. From my already supplied link:



Your story is nothing but a CEO blaming others for his failures in true conservative fashion.

Maybe you need a translation of the last few words from what you quoted:

...according to the latest National Ambient Air Quality Standards

Aka... Latest EPA standards, not standards imposed by the state.
 
Maybe you need a translation of the last few words from what you quoted:



Aka... Latest EPA standards, not standards imposed by the state.

Apparently you do not know what TCEQ is. Hint: the T stands for Texas. You are also having problems with the word "and". Or you deceptively snipped part of the quote.
 
Apparently you do not know what TCEQ is. Hint: the T stands for Texas. You are also having problems with the word "and". Or you deceptively snipped part of the quote.

Taking a look at, and denying them a permit are 2 different things.
 
Taking a look at, and denying them a permit are 2 different things.


So what we know is your source lied in it's headline(Beltway Confidential never tells the truth), they had more problems that the EPA and Obama, but you refuse to do anything but look at what one person said and accept it without question because it is what you want to hear. I find that interesting.
 
You can spin this all you want but the bottom line is, Obama's new non-congressionally approved EPA standards are going to cost America 10's of 1000's more jobs and raise electricity rates on nearly everyone in the country.

Now who do you think is going to suffer the most from this... The rich or the middle class and poor?
 
What did you expect, Grim? They were put on notice to invest and clean it up a decade ago.
 
So what we know is your source lied in it's headline...

Says your source from the Sierra Club, but not according to the man who runs the company...

Based on the strangling effects projected by Obama's new EPA regs, and the anything but credible Sierra club and their steady stream of far left propaganda, the smart money says the headline is absolutely correct.

The fact you ignore all that is par for your ideological course.
 
You can spin this all you want but the bottom line is, Obama's new non-congressionally approved EPA standards are going to cost America 10's of 1000's more jobs and raise electricity rates on nearly everyone in the country.

Now who do you think is going to suffer the most from this... The rich or the middle class and poor?

You can't link to a source that spins the story, and then in the very same thread complain about spin. Further, I am not the one doing the spinning. I am simply reporting all the facts, something your source very carefully declined to do. I am a big fan of facts myself. You can go ahead and believe some guy blaming his own failure on Obama because it is what you want to believe all you want, I will stick with facts.
 
Says your source from the Sierra Club, but not according to the man who runs the company...

Based on the strangling effects projected by Obama's new EPA regs, and the anything but credible Sierra club and their steady stream of far left propaganda, the smart money says the headline is absolutely correct.

The fact you ignore all that is par for your ideological course.

Actually my source was the local newspaper. Yours was Beltway Pundit:lamo
 
BS. Everyone knows Obama loves coal.
 
Next time you hear a liberal bitch about infrastructure.

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You can't link to a source that spins the story, and then in the very same thread complain about spin. Further, I am not the one doing the spinning. I am simply reporting all the facts, something your source very carefully declined to do. I am a big fan of facts myself. You can go ahead and believe some guy blaming his own failure on Obama because it is what you want to believe all you want, I will stick with facts.
Shall we forget that Grim is the self proclaimed expert on bias? The Washington Examiner is a conservative newspaper. LOL
 
Maybe you could elaborate on the relationship.

The reason Texas has not given their OK to the plant(note that it is Texas where they are having problems, not just the EPA) is their poor planning to handle pollutants. See, that is why we have the EPA, and why we have regulations regarding emissions. Some of us are old enough to remember when LA and other cities would get so bad from smog that some people could not even leave the house on certain days.

The problem in this case is of course not that the hurdles are so high, but that the company was unable to get the work done to get past the hurdles. That is not Obama's fault, that is not the EPA's fault. Just because some one blames them does not make it true.
 
Holy misleading headline. A more accurate headline would be CEO blames own failure on Obama and EPA with no supporting evidence. Las Brisas project halted » Corpus Christi Caller-TimesHe had problems getting past state level standards. Good to see the Beltway Confidential continues it's fine record of lies and deception.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I googled "Chase Power Closes Texas" and the only news outlets that came up reporting anything were conservative blogs, conservative papers, and FOX News. But yeah, yeah, I know, "that's because liberal media outlets hide everything that Obama does to destroy our good Christian country." Blah, blah, blah... :roll:

Says your source from the Sierra Club, but not according to the man who runs the company....

And this man, who runs a multi-billion dollar company, would never lie or stretch a truth to make himself look like a victim?
 
So what we know is your source lied in it's headline(Beltway Confidential never
tells the truth), they had more problems that the EPA and Obama, but you refuse to do anything but look at what one person said and accept it without question because it is what you want to hear. I find that interesting.

Did Obama as a candidate say he would put coal fired plants builders out of bussiness ?

Has the Federal EPA standards for coal fired plants been increased to the point of draconian ? Have these new EPA standards hurt the coal industry ?

Is this plant having problems meeting the requirments of Obamas new EPA standards ?

These questions are yes or no questions.

And as far as natural gas Obama made a pre-election speech in Colorado extolling the virtues of Natural Gas and then promptly closed off access to federal lands after 60 million morons re-elected him.

I think its a bit hypocritical fpr a liberal to accuse somone of lying.
 
Your story is nothing but a CEO blaming others for his failures in true conservative fashion.

What? you didnt hear? If you are a business that is failing due to your own mishap, it is now standard procedure to blame Obama for your inability to run a business, and to get your story in printed on a right wing news blog that no one reads.
 
More 'conservative' whine. The 'draconian' clean-coal regulations have been regulation for at least ten years, the industry has known all about it waaaay before President Obama took office.

The problem is soft coal, it is dirty.

The problem is Natural Gas production has skyrocketed driving the ACTUAL cost of a kilowatt down. Most competently run energy companies have already converted to NG and only their hard coal plants continue to run.

The problem is Texas heavily invested in coal burning plants, I know, we get air quality alerts here in Oklahoma from coal burning plants in Tx.

The CEO isn't about to stand up and say, "Even though we knew for a decade the era of soft coal power production was over, we literally bet the house on Willard winning and not having to clean up our act."
 
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