The Republican war on the environment continues with more deceptions
Like other Bush environmental initiatives with deceptive names like “Clear Skies” and “Healthy Forests” … the promise of “clean coal” looks like another Bush Administration lie in their unprecedented war on the environment.
Bush touted clean coal technology in 2006, when he insisted that the United States is “spending quite a bit of money here at the federal level to come up with clean-coal technologies.” During Monday’s State of the Union address, Bush said, “Let us fund new technologies that can generate coal power while capturing carbon emissions.”
Yet, just 24 hours after his SOTU declaration, Bush’s Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman indicated the White House was pulling the plug on the ambitious FutureGen project, a clean coal plant that was touted as “the cleanest fossil fuel fired power plant in the world.”
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today issued the following statement in reaction:
“…Secretary of Energy Sam Bodman has misled the people of Illinois, creating false hope in a FutureGen project which has no intention of funding or supporting. In twenty-five years on Capitol Hill, I have never witnessed such a cruel deception. For five years, the Department of Energy has urged our state and others to pursue, at great expense and sacrifice, this critically important energy project.”
What else is new? This is the way BushCo does business. If you are a Republican reading this and have any regard for the environment, you are either 1) ignorant of the Bush Administration’s environmental misdeeds; 2) you are in denial of these misdeeds; or 3) you don’t really care much about the environment.
Which is it?
Try this: do a Google search on these words: “Bush” & “environment.”
About the only good news you’ll get is from ‘WhiteHouse.gov.’
Sigh…
1) ignorant of the Bush Administration’s environmental misdeeds; 2) you are in denial of these misdeeds; or 3) you don’t really care much about the environment.
I hope with knif8y, it’s only a case of 1 and 2. We can fix that, once President Clinton uses her awesome warrantless wiretapping and detainment-without-charges powers to implement the re-education camps!
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About the Futuregen part, this is really surprising. I don’t understand why they pulled the plug. I was looking forward to seeing how this place would work.
Thanx for the graphic Serr8…. but I think I’ll defer to this lady for musical protests… I couldn’t say it nearly so good.