Clean coal’s dirty secret

July 6, 2008


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Man if there ever was an oxymoron, ‘clean coal’ is it… what a load of bullshit.

This is what ‘clean coal’ is about, it’s about greed and phoney capitalism, it’s about a bunch of people who’s capitalism can’t get passed either digging it out of the ground, chopping it down or bribing politicians into selling public assets, because when it comes down to it, like I said they are nothing but phoney capitalists, they couldn’t build or design something new and worthwhile, they have to resort to skulduggery to take more than they’ll ever need, they are for the most part addicted to greed and don’t have the balls to make an honest living.

Today I heard our (Australian Labor) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (aka Kevin Dud) intimate that ‘Clean Coal’ was the future and that selling of our state electrical power utility was the way to go… words fail me, well maybe not. Lets look at their reasons.

Apparently a government can build a public utility, but apparently it can’t run it efficiently? Basically they are admitting that they are incompetent, and they are trying to tell us that private enterprise would do it better, they could raise the funds and do a better job of it… who would you sooner loan money to, a government or a privet company? what a bunch of morons.

This is what will happen if the power utility is sold. First thing that will happen is there will be layoffs, maintenance will be cut back, the price of electricity will go up and the supply will become unreliable… the same sort of thing that happened in California will happen here. The other thing that will probably happen is the coal companies will probably buy the power utilities and it will be the end of alternative energies and meeting the Kyoto limits.

If they had any balls they would put it to a referendum, but they won’t because they know it would be shot down… so much for ‘democracy’ eh?



Written by Beam · Filed Under Energy, Environment, People, Political, Sustainability 

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One Response to “Clean coal’s dirty secret”

  1. Tanushree on July 7th, 2008 11:39 pm

    The entire idea of “clean coal” lies mainly on the ability to capture and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide that is produced by coal fired electrical generation plants. But the truth is burying carbon dioxide is a false hope (http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/new-greenpeace-report-exposes).
    Unfortunately, the major problem is that coal companies try hard to prove that they are working on this problem where as in reality doing nothing measurable to begin reducing these emissions. For more information on “Clean coal” please read http://www.coal-is-dirty.com/

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