Thanks to the work of a terrific environmental attorney from Minnesota, as well as some simple common sense and economics, the first major “clean coal” power plant slated in the current wave proposals is just about “Dead, dead, dead”.
As reported in a previous post, this could set a major precedent. Especially noteworthy in this process are the findings that “The plant is not as new or innovative as promised, its power would cost more than alternative sources of electricity and its plans to keep some plant-generated carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere would cost more than $1 billion”
In the end, as ever before, there is no such thing as clean coal.
