Great 30 second bit on how TXU is putting profits before health and safety. My favorite part is listening to the TXU representative try and support the company’s case that they’re actually “cleaner” coal. Some of these facts are just outrageous:
Posted on 12 February 2007
Tags: coal
After a lifetime on the East Coast and getting stuck in the Midwestern suburbs of Chicago and northern Michigan I'm finally on the West Coast in the always cool and never hot city of San Francisco. Japhet worked for various outdoor organizations before becoming a member of Howard Dean's webteam (a lowly online organizer) in Burlington, Vermont. Afterwards, he continued his election work with America Coming Together in Madison, Wisconsin where he helped increase voter turnout to the highest in state history. Now, coming back to this environmental and corporate ethics roots, Japhet is excited to put his skills to use for Rainforest Action Network.
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Any news on rainforest protection, or don’t you do that anymore?
I think stopping the TXU plants has everything to do with protecting rainforests. Perhaps you should look at this way:
Global climate change has emerged as perhaps the greatest danger to the the Amazon rainforest at this time and current warming trends threaten to transform it into a state of irreversible decline.
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11952
We know beyond certainty that industrial activities are fueling global warming and that industrialized nations have a responsibility to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions immediately in order to avert catastrophe at a planetary scale.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0122-06.htm
Certainly one of the best ways to turn the tide on this serious threat is to stop it at its source. TXU\’s plans to build these coal plants in the U.S. will single-handedly add 78 million tons of carbon dioxide to Earth\’s atmosphere every year. That\’s equal to the total greenhouse gas emissions of several US states and more than 80 percent of the UK’s Kyoto emission reduction commitment.
http://dirtymoney.org/txu/
It is practically inevitable that these plants overall impact will have a detrimental effect on the Amazon already decreasing ability to act as a carbon sink.
So I say \”Save the rainforests. Let\’s stop TXU.\”
I see Global Warming B4 my eyes in Florida thru the storms getting bigger and their numbers increase. These coal plants will compound this problem by adding all that extra CO2 into the air. The storms might get so bad that they rip down their new coal plants that they build. Two bads don’t = a good. Wake up!