Comments on: NC DAQ approves permit for Duke’s Cliffside coal plant (LAME) http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/02/03/nc-daq-approves-permit-for-duke%e2%80%99s-cliffside-coal-plant-lame/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:38:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: What is Bank of America Doing for Earth Day? « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/02/03/nc-daq-approves-permit-for-duke%e2%80%99s-cliffside-coal-plant-lame/#comment-62914 What is Bank of America Doing for Earth Day? « It’s Getting Hot In Here Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:22:13 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4288#comment-62914 [...] month, they helped finance $3.2 billion to Duke Energy - helping them build two new coal plants at Cliffside, NC and in Indiana. The truth is they DO invest in clean energy. It’s just that they invest [...] [...] month, they helped finance $3.2 billion to Duke Energy - helping them build two new coal plants at Cliffside, NC and in Indiana. The truth is they DO invest in clean energy. It’s just that they invest [...]

]]> By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/02/03/nc-daq-approves-permit-for-duke%e2%80%99s-cliffside-coal-plant-lame/#comment-60893 R Margolis Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:50:26 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4288#comment-60893 As one who lived through some of those thrilling days of yesteryear... ;-) Seabrook Unit 1 went online as did Diablo Canyon. Yes the antis helped stop nuclear by delaying the plants and costing them out of the market. But beware what followed: Canadian hydropower and natural gas became the replacements, not solar and wind. Better make sure that solar and wind are REALLY cheaper or watch for fights over LNG and methane hydrates... :-) As one who lived through some of those thrilling days of yesteryear… ;-)

Seabrook Unit 1 went online as did Diablo Canyon. Yes the antis helped stop nuclear by delaying the plants and costing them out of the market. But beware what followed: Canadian hydropower and natural gas became the replacements, not solar and wind. Better make sure that solar and wind are REALLY cheaper or watch for fights over LNG and methane hydrates… :-)

]]> By: Evan Webb http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/02/03/nc-daq-approves-permit-for-duke%e2%80%99s-cliffside-coal-plant-lame/#comment-60884 Evan Webb Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:55:32 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4288#comment-60884 i last heard this expansion would go on-line in 2012. does anyone know the construction schedule? when it begins? i last heard this expansion would go on-line in 2012. does anyone know the construction schedule? when it begins?

]]> By: Matt Leonard http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/02/03/nc-daq-approves-permit-for-duke%e2%80%99s-cliffside-coal-plant-lame/#comment-60883 Matt Leonard Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:42:12 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4288#comment-60883 Well, Al Gore DID say it a few months ago - and maybe Cliffside should be the place where the climate movement (young and old) draw the physical line in the sand. Errr, dirt. Could we organize a massive shut-down of the construction site? Could we mobilize hundreds or thousands of people to join us in directly stopping the biggest threat to our future? Will we put our bodies LITERALLY in the gears of the machine and prevent Cliffside (and all coal development) from being built? Could we bring solar panels, wind turbines, bicycles and more to the site - to show that another future IS possible? Looking back at the massive (and successful) anti-nuclear movements of the 70's and 80's - could Cliffside be OUR generations' Seabrook? (For those of us not alive then - Seabrook was a massive campaign against a nuclear power plant in 1977 by the Clamshell Alliance - and over 2,000 people occupied the site - see http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918965,00.html ) -Matt Well, Al Gore DID say it a few months ago - and maybe Cliffside should be the place where the climate movement (young and old) draw the physical line in the sand. Errr, dirt.

Could we organize a massive shut-down of the construction site? Could we mobilize hundreds or thousands of people to join us in directly stopping the biggest threat to our future? Will we put our bodies LITERALLY in the gears of the machine and prevent Cliffside (and all coal development) from being built? Could we bring solar panels, wind turbines, bicycles and more to the site - to show that another future IS possible?

Looking back at the massive (and successful) anti-nuclear movements of the 70’s and 80’s - could Cliffside be OUR generations’ Seabrook?

(For those of us not alive then - Seabrook was a massive campaign against a nuclear power plant in 1977 by the Clamshell Alliance - and over 2,000 people occupied the site - see http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918965,00.html )

-Matt

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