From my column today: Steve Miller, a spokesman for Sunflower Electric Power Corp., the company proposing the Holcomb plants, pulled out all the emotional stops in responding to ads attacking coal plants: "We’re like a wounded deer laying in the middle of the highway now," he told the Lawrence Journal-World. "So you can imagine everyone who wants to finish us off is throwing money in the pot right now."
Somehow I never thought of a massive coal-fired power complex as a wounded deer.
Or even an endangered species.
If so, this wounded deer has a truckload of highly paid lawyers in its corner.
I’m betting Bambi will survive.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Bambi vs. Godzilla, I hope.
In the case of this figurative wounded deer, I would run over it, then back over it, then run over it again. (small truck)
They’re more like road kill.
WAH! How about like the Dead skunk in the middle of the road?
Let’s hope it’s the wounded deer caught in the headlights of modern man
“Somehow I never thought of a massive coal-fired power complex as a wounded deer.Or even an endangered species.”
Posted by Randy Scholfield
They are an “endangered species”, unless they can find an economical way to capture and sequester carbon.
No new coal plants, and phase out existing ones by mid-century.
‘No to coalNASA climatologist calls for no more coal plants to avoid global warming tipping point.’http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5247097.html
Dressing up petroleum energy in another costume does not make it a clean fuel. We need to concentrate on energies that produce the most with the least. What ever happened to fusion research? Or fusion/fission synergies? Nuclear has the greatest potential with the least inputs, although when good goes bad they do represent an immediate and potentially long-lasting ill. Wind and solar have a ways to go as far as cost vs. benefit, but they’re clean once they’re up and running.
On the other side of the equation: What are we, the people, doing to cut our dependence and reduce demand? We keep saying we want green technology, but it’s only because we want to feel good about being able to use as much energy as we want.
This Bambi analogy makes me think of the adage “put lipstick on a pig and its still a pig”.
Recent Cheveron commercial.
“Imagine that, an Oil company as part of the solution”.____________________________
Definitly a Wolf in Sheeps clothing.
This Bambi analogy makes me think of the adage “put lipstick on a pig and its still a pig”.
lol, yup.
or, if you spray dog shit with cologne its still a peice of shit.
Or you could tip a 2 dollar hooker 50 bux, and still,
oh nevermind.
Love it! Funny and gets a point across, great for reading to make you happy. Let’s all be wounded deer, and get some rich lawyers!
It would seem that talk is cheaper than doing. How come the people of Sedgwick County are not reducing power usage?
“So far, 345 Sedgwick County residents have made the pledge to change at least one light bulb in their homes to an energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL). This is a great start! If each person who made the pledge changes at least one light, our community will save 97,290 kilowatt hours, $9,047.97 and 141,105 pounds of greenhouse gasses. If everyone in Sedgwick County changed a light, those numbers would look more like 127,709,058 kilowatt hours, nearly 12 million dollars and 185,223,421 pounds of greenhouse gasses.”
http://www.sedgwickcounty.org/
Steve Miller has NO idea what his words sound like outside the echo chamber of Hays.
Remember his call for ALL of western Kansas to BOYCOTT Lawrence because they DARED to have hearings about HIS plant and to protest it?
hehehehe. How’s that boycott of Lawrence working out? I be Lawrence never even noticed it.
Kinda like hitting something and thinking it was a speed bump when really, it was BAMBI?
Jesus WEPT! Maybe Nicole Cochran can get a job at Sunflower when they wake up are realize what a BOZO Steve Miller is.
Ann Richards, the last REAL governor of Texas, used to say that “you can put lipstick on a hog and call her Monique, but she is STILL a p-i-g HOG!”
Texans. Never use a few words when many will do…
As I and others have said on this blog, fluorescent light bulbs do contain mercury. If thrown into regular trash that goes to our regular landfills, the mercury from these light bulbs has potential to leak down to the underlying gravel and alluvial aquifers that will eventually poison some city’s drinking water supply downstream.
Modern landfills are built with an impenetrable vinyl liner to “prevent” leaching downward. But think back to the relatively new Harper County landfill. Within weeks after beginning to use that landfill, the “impenetrable” liner was examined and found to already contain a number of tears and holes penetrating the liner. So much for protection of our water supply aquifers by the “impenetrable” vinyl liner.
Of course, now the Kansas Supreme Court has agreed to review objections to the Harper County landfill by several groups of opponents fearing for their water supply. So tons of trash from Sedgwick County already dumped in Harper County during the past year might have to be hauled back to the Sedgwick County Courthouse for further instructions.
Back to the fluorescent light bulbs, a couple months ago I discussed these with Mr. Bonham an operations manager at Sedgwick County’s “Household Hazardous Waste Facility.” This is located a long block south of West High School in the Sedgwick County Public Works complex.
Mr. Bonham said they do handle these mercury-containing bulbs very carefully. Fluorescent bulbs both the long tubular kind and the new small spiral shaped bulbs are placed in special sealed containers and shipped to Phoenix, Arizona, for dismanteling and recycling the mercury.
SO TAKE YOUR BURNED OUT FLUORESCENT BULBS TO SEDGWICK COUNTY’S HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY FOR DISPOSAL.