Well said. We need balance in everything. We need to look at ALL aspects of this project both the good and the bad. All aspects need to be fully reviewed by the public.
I went to school at Purdue and got my degree in Environmental Science and Conservation of Natural Resource and I went to school with a lot of Big Time FARMERS. They are my friends. I still want to keep food prices down.
Just last night I saw a TV news program about the high costs of food. Some food prices have really skyrocketed. One lady shopping for food really had to be careful what she bought for her family as she could not afford to buy all the groceries that she needed. Her little kids were going to do without that week because mom ran out of money to buy food. This is happening in America.
We have subsidized Agricultural Operations for years now. There is no way that we will let the food production in this country lapse. It's way too important to this country. One French General, Napoleon, said that an army marches on it's stomach. So food production is part of NATIONAL SECURITY.
We also don't want to put all our eggs in one basket. That's never a wise thing to do in life or when investing in the stocks. Diversity is the key.
We have all kinds of ways to produce new energy. These are the times when we have to make the wisest choices to HELP AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE not just a few people. The choices we make today will have pronounced effects on us for years to come.
I would much rather see them putting up windmills to use the wind to produce electricity than to see another coal fired boiler being produced.
I would much rather see a new **** built over the Ohio River that would convert the rivers ever constant current into hydroelectric power. Plus the lake that would be formed would benefit the fishing too. Double Plus there. Negatives would be that some towns would have to be moved to higher ground. See KY lake and the moving of some of towns that were flooded. Eddiville KY was moved when they damned the Cumberland River to form Barkley Lake. But look at the amount of hydroelectric power that was produced by that ****!
I don't fish Snakey point but I want too someday. I just found out where it was last fall. And I intend to fish it someday this next spring when the Patoka River floods and the crappie swim out of the river up into Snakey point to spawn.
This last month I had two NOSE BLEEDS. Both were associated with high air pollution levels. IE the nose bleeds when the Ozone Levels get high.
Back in 1977 the Ozone standard was 0.08ppm or 80 ppb over a period of one hour. If you had a reading of 0.086 for more than one hour you were violating the NAAQS for Ozone. Today the USEPA allows this same concentration to occur for 8 hours legally. That's EIGHT times the level of Ozone allowed these days. Plus back in the late 1970's the recalibrated all the ozone monitors in the USA run by USEPA to read about 50% lower than they did previously. So god only knows how much Ozone we are really breathing these days as compared to 30 years ago.
My point is that we must be very careful about building new plants that emit lots of hydrocarbons or NOX emissions. Our air pollution at times is already too high now. We have to watch how many more emissions we add to our air.
We need to start to control the pollution coming from EXISTING Plants before we add new plants. If the buss is full of kids and you want to add ten more kids to the buss you first have to let eleven kids get out before you add the next ten kids to the buss. This is EPA's Emission Offset Policy which helps keeps the air clean. The reason you let 11 kids out is because you are already over the limit of kids on the buss and the goal is to get below the limit not to exceed it more. Therefore the net is a reduction of one kid so that you have less kids on that overcrowded buss.
Air pollution is the same way. If you already have too much air pollution you must reduce it before you add any new sources of air pollution. If not you will never have clean air.
Originally Posted by bassmanic1
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