The fight over a western Kansas coal-plant expansion is more than legal and regulatory. It’s also political. The Kansas Chamber of Commerce is using the issue to raise money for its political action committee, with chamber president and CEO Amy Blankenbiller claiming in a letter that the air-permit denial of the plants “will have a chilling effect on Kansas’ entire business and manufacturing community.â€
But that “effect†is speculative at best. Obviously, the chamber is going to support candidates who support business, but shouldn’t that support be based in fact rather than fearmongering?
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Rhonda
“but shouldn’t that support be based in fact rather than fearmongering?”
Wasn’t opposition to issuing the air permit based largely on fear mongering? (AGW, from co2 output).
I wonder if the Chamber will repeat Neufield’s deliberate lies claiming the expansion would be nearly carbon-neutral?
The expansion is not absolutely CO2 neutral.
Be afraid, be VERY afraid.
Kansas is such a JOKE when it comes to economic development. While other states actually HAVE functioning statewide organizations of professionals, Kansas does not. I dont even know if the old KIDA/KEDA group exists anymore, but if it does, it’s on paper only. wKREDA is a regional organization founded by… guess who? Steve Miller of Sunflower Electric. It was first formed to recruit dairy farms to western Kansas, but now?
It’s all Holcomb all the time.
And the Kansas Chamber? It’s just another arm of the ksgop and the karl peterjohns of the world.
Please point out ONE accomplishment of the Ks Chamber? Other than soliciting tax breaks for businesses at EVERY level of government.
They recruit no businesses. They help no startups. They do nothing concerning the pitiful workforce in Kansas. All they do is lobby for tax cuts.
And given the budgets shortfall projected for Kansas this year and out years… ya just gotta ask.. how’s that working for the STATE?
Big eye roll. Kansas has no effective statewide organization for economic development. Yet business taxes are what put us behind other states?
Kansas… as inept in development as you think…
heheheh. Given amy’s newness to the position, you gotta love the “chilling effect” comment.
Here’s a clue girlie. The kansas business development world has been in the DEEP FREEZE for decades.
With no sign of thawing anytime soon.
But keep sayin’ what the boys tell ya to say. Keeps the pats on the head and the paychecks coming, but accomplishments?
not so much…
Like I always say, as it’s practiced in kansas, economic development is the BIGGEST hoax ever perpetrated on the state’s taxpayers.
Oh, and did anyone notice that governor “leadership” declared several counties in the southwest region of the state to be in the second highest drought warning available? There was an article in the Salina Journal, but no mention that I saw in the WE.
So.. even though Finney county isnt on the list, its neighbors are. And that means water use could be severely restricted.
What happens if this water sucking coal expansion is approved… and there isnt enough water to run it?
Color me shocked…
Here’s a little linky. Finney county IS on the list of counties where “consumers” may be ordered to cut back on water usage.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25104924/
heheheheh.
Pretty soon, Finney county, and the other counties where ethanol and irrigation rule, may find themselves in the same position as the city of Russell.
Houshold water usage is restricted so the russell ethanol plant can get the water it needs.
Corporations uber alles!
“What happens if this water sucking coal expansion is approved… and there isnt enough water to run it?”
Not to worry; there’s a rumor the leadership in the Senate is working on a secret invention to solve the problem,it’s called dehydrated water. (??)
Hee hee hee gster!
I think that’s about as practical right now as the magic algae, no?
How do you know neufeld is lying?
His lips are moving…
“ksfarmgrrl” –
I got to thinking about your farm over the weekend. An old high school chum showed up with snapshots of her cousin’s garden. He cousin is a polio surviver and in a wheelchair and has a full garden built by her carpenter dad in a series of watering tanks built up off the ground. She’s all organic. She puts the plants that repel insects that like to eat broccoli next to the broccoli and somehow rabbits or raccoons got to the cauliflower and she figures if that’s all the way they get into the garden, let ‘em eat cauliflower.
A jewel of a human being.
Seventy-two tomato plants. Trough upon trough of herbs, peppers, eggplants, melons, and roots and salads…
In so many ways Connie’s life is different from yours — she has three brilliant kids who are collecting graduate degrees hand over fist and lives with her husband for nearly forty years — but she’s a Kansas pioneer woman!
I wonder if there’s a Kansas Personality? Y’know, like what everyone assumes a “Texan” is?
The quintessential Kansas male, I think, plods through every day, like a homesteader staring at the asshole of a mule every day he plows virgin prairie. The Kansas female does her best to make the best of the godawful situation she’s found herself in.
Sebelius did it her way. Landwhere did it hers. Joan Finney did it her way, considering the times. Connie Morris does it, too.
Damn, I love women!
Even when I hate some of ‘em, I love ‘em.
I cant speak for any other women, but for me? It’s the land. Always the land. And the water and the sky. Being on this land, this farm, begun by my grandfather, who was born in Russia in 1886, is worth fighting wind and hail and drought and wingnuts.
most of the time…
…and given recent scares, it’s a good year to be growing tomatoes!
“I wonder if there’s a Kansas Personality? Y’know, like what everyone assumes a “Texan” is?”
I think it’s the “Double S” personality.
Stubborn and stupid! :)
It is not true that Neufeld does not have a solution for the water problem vis vi the coal plants.
If all of us would just get together and grab our garden hoses, we could refill the aquifer in no time.
No problem, watch out for the magic algae underfoot.
What they really need to do is design a BS cooled coal plant and then build it in Topeka and take advantage of that never ending coolant supply there !
And make Nufeld in charge of coolant supply– problem solved. Maybe put the plant in his office?
“If all of us would just get together and grab our garden hoses, we could refill the aquifer in no time.”
Hee hee heeeeeee Clark!
That would be an improvement over all the boys in Topeka just grabbing their d****!
well, since no one has taken me up on listing the kansas chamber’s successes, I’ll answer my own question.
http://www.kansaschamber.org/docs/WinningWays.htm
I rest my case. Tax cuts, nothing more.
“ksfarmgrrl” identifies the Kansas Personality –
“…the “Double S” personality.
Stubborn and stupid!”
And THAT should be the slogan on the new license plates!
We get most of our electricity from dirty old coal plants now. What’s wrong with a new model? Nothing.
Go ahead and build the damn things. It’s not like that part of Kansas isn’t a sh*thole anyway.
ksfarmgrrl
Posted June 13, 2008 at 11:24 am | Permalink
well, since no one has taken me up on listing the kansas chamber’s successes, I’ll answer my own question.
http://www.kansaschamber.org/docs/WinningWays.htm
I rest my case. Tax cuts, nothing more.
Hey Butch, I red your link. Kinda discouraging, ain’t it? But I guess I don’t expect the Chamber to give a shit about workers.
Ya know nano, calling me butch is just another way we know how small your “manhood” really is.
Are you jealous of me?
Or afraid of me?
BOO!
And just how many nics do you use? Doesnt matter. Shit by any other name and all…
Bigoted bass turd. YOU are the reason kansas is in the dumpster.
heheheh. There was only one other poster who ever called me butch. She even commented on my nonexistant “moustache”.
heheheheheh!
Remember, I’m twice the man you’ll ever be and three times the woman you’ll ever have…
“ksfarmgrrl” –
I know it’s way too early to consider your epitaph. But you should remember –
“… twice the man you’ll ever be and three times the woman you’ll ever have”
as a likely candidate.
Well said, friend.
Thanks MonkeyHawk, but I’m sure it will be closer to the Double S thing…
“I was kicked off of Noah’s ark, just for makin’ unkind remarks, about two of every thing, and one of meeeeee. And when the rains came tumblin’ down, I held my breath and I stood my ground. And I watched that ship go sailing out to sea.
Take it back, take it back, oh no you cant say that. All of my friends are not dead or in jail…Sweet revenge, sweet revenge will prevail, without fail”.
Oops. Posting from memory, I made a mistake in the lyrics.
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/john_prine/sweet_revenge.html
I wish it was “You’ve Got Gold” but it is more likely to be “Freebird”. heheheh.
In honor of my friends in low places…
But since no one smokes anymore, I hope they all remember to bring their Bic lighters!
Nice touch as usual WE blog. You show a power plant from another state in cold weather where the water vapor in the flue gas shows up and gives the impression of the proverbial pollution belching smokestacks of the past. Try driving by one on a 100 degree day when the plant is running at 110% trying to keep your A.C. on and funny thing is, there is almost no visible emissions. Just another way the media manipulates a gullible public
“tinfoil hat wearing kook” Chris – the serious pollutants are not visible anyway.
“and funny thing is, there is almost no visible emissions.”
Just sulfates, mercury and other toxins. And lots of CO2.
“Try driving by one on a 100 degree day when the plant is running at 110% trying to keep your A.C. on and funny thing is, there is almost no visible emissions.”
The emissions in question regarding the plants is CO2 – invisible regardless of the temperature.
Just returned tonight from vacation, drove past the Windmills and noticed none of them turning. Is the project up and running or was there just a lack of wind to turn the propellers?
We actually had no wind in Central Kansas yesterday. Of course the windmill blades just set there conserving energy for another day. Oops what did I say, the wind blows all the time from the eco freaks.
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ksfarmgrrl
Posted June 13, 2008 at 3:53 pm | Permalink
Ya know nano, calling me butch is just another way we know how small your “manhood” really is.
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Yeah, but it brought you right out on your hind legs, didn’t it?
Are you jealous of me?
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That’s obviously it.
Or afraid of me?
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Of course I am, you scary old thing!
BOO!
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BOO HOO! When’s the punch line?
And just how many nics do you use? Doesnt matter. Shit by any other name and all…
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If it doesn’t matter, why do you bring it up? Conflicted much?
Let’s see, I had 27 nics at last count, both sides of the political spectrum. Thing about arguing with myself, I always win.
Bigoted bass turd. YOU are the reason kansas is in the dumpster.
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I’m married. You can’t get married. Nyah!
It appears I have my own private stalker.
I’m afraid tippy lives.
But hey, I’m enjoying the poodle dancing anyway.
Dance, poodle, dance!
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