Sunflower Electric Power. Corp. is pulling out all the stops – and abandoning reason – in its quest to get approval of two new coal-fired power plants. It filed a federal lawsuit this week claiming that state officials violated Sunflower’s civil rights. There is a civil right to pollute the air? The lawsuit also irresponsibly charges that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson and Kansas Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby opposed the permit application to “further their individual political fortunes.” So why have coal plants been blocked in other states? Are officials in those states building their resumes, too? Were U.S. Supreme Court justices hoping for better jobs when they ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to take action on regulating carbon dioxide?
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Obviously, you just can’t fix stupid.
Looks like a continued assault on the Kansas environment and taxpayers by “Big Power.” Hopefully our Kansas legislators will continue ot resist this although, as I recall, last year the resistance was paper thin.
Sunflower losing reason? No, that happened a long time ago when that idiot Bremby, the puppet of $ebeliu$, denied the permit. The idiot environmentalist wackos are the ones without reason, people like YOU JWink and YOU JMWalker.
I’m going to order some toilet paper with Phillip Brownlee’s face on it. Every time I take a poop, that’s what I’m reminded of.
ICTisInferior
Posted November 20, 2008 at 6:25 am | Permalink
The idiot environmentalist wackos are the ones without reason, people like YOU JWink and YOU JMWalker.
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I don’t know about you, JWink, but I feel so cheap:-)
There are no existing regulations or laws that justify denial of granting permits at this time.
I am not arguing the merits of coal plants, simply that all applicable laws were met in Sunflower’s proposals.
Are we a nation and state of law or whim?
Salute, with my middle finger to Sunflower.
Take you pollution spewing plant and shove it where….it is wanted. That aint here. It also does not seem to be wanted anywhere else.
Maybe Sunflower can build their plant up their own arse.
There is a reality in this world that will eventually slap us all back to reason.
This country has the largest reserve of coal of any country in the world. Our energy needs are increasing every year. This country has the best technology to burn coal clean.
If we don’t develop our vast coal reserves and allow the clean production of energy our jobs will slowly be transferred to third world countries like China and India that are currently building a coal fired generating plant a day. Plants that have no environmental controls.
Because we don’t allow the building of clean nuclear plants and clean coal fired plants and because we are not encouraging the development of our vast natural gas reserves we are actually making the world a much dirtier place. Plus we are transferring our jobs and our economy over seas.
Because of the short sided political whores like Sebelius and her appointed lackeys we’ll soon have rolling blackouts in the Northeast. The mindless greenie weinies on this BLOG and elsewhere are going to have to jam their heads even further up their ass to hide from the truth.
“we’ll soon have rolling blackouts in the Northeast.”
Get on back, AFTER that happens.
The greatest source of energy we have is what we already waste. THAT has to change.
A corporation has civil rights? If they do then they must be freed as this corporate personhood is owned by shareholders who are nothing more than slaveowners. Free the oppressed corporation so that it has no owners!
However corporations do have some civil rights many others don’t have. They can get married and they don’t have to be a man and woman.
I still challenge Sunflower to demonstrate their carbon sequestration technology at their existing plant. Their guy in the legislature has represented that their new plant would be ‘essentially carbon-neutral’; let them show that to be true.
We need the energy from the clean coal plants. There is no climate change that people can control at any price. The Greenies are trying to take control of our lives in the name of Greenhouse emissions. Glad to see Sunflower try to get some reason from Kathy and Rod. The Greenhouse shakedown will only grow worst. Unfortunately the seeds have been planted. Watch our for your freedoms.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson and Kansas Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby opposed the permit application to “further their individual political fortunes.”
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Well, Duh!!
To me, it looks like Sunflower is forum shopping. The allegations reported in the header were needed to try to establish a case in federal court.
At an earlier time, I recall that Sunflower was going to challenge the decision in state court, based upon a rational argument concerning the lack of statutory authority for the Secretary’s decision denying the permit. Does anybody know what the outcome of that was, if suit was indeed filed? The filing of the federal action suggests that either Sunflower was not successful in its state action, or that it didn’t file such an action.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/11/18/ap5711707.html
answers one of my questions. The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that Sunflower must exhaust its administrative remedies, which apparently has yet to occur, before a state court suit may be maintained.
Maybe Nufield has the votes this time, or thinks he does. Must be suffocating to be so deep into the pockets of an energy company.
Dennis
“Maybe Nufield has the votes this time, or thinks he does.”
I dont know, but it seems to me that most of the candidates he and his wingnut republicans back, lost in this election.
I think he is losing the battle against “moderate” (read, slightly less wingnutty) factions of his own party.
I wonder if he will even BE speaker when they reconvene?
You moronic greenies. If carbon dioxide is truly causing global warming and is a pollutant then I guess we should shut down all coal plants! Would that make you happy? Truth is there are more and more scientists who are actually against the idea the there is no such thing as man made global warming. It is just a bunch of propaganda being used to scare us to make certain decisions for us. Like GE owning NBC and having a green week to make us all change the kind of light bulbs in our homes!
“At an earlier time, I recall that Sunflower was going to challenge the decision in state court, based upon a rational argument concerning the lack of statutory authority for the Secretary’s decision denying the permit. Does anybody know what the outcome of that was, if suit was indeed filed?”
Well, I’m not sure enough about this to argue, but I think it got thrown out.
Sunflower is too cheap to try and build anything but old low tech plants. Plants that will power mainly Colorado. If sunflower wants to build maybe they should try and build with clean tech?
And wow the lunatics on here yelling at environmental minded people are quite interesting…for about two seconds then they seem stupid.
Let the oil companies and coal companies bail out the automakers.
All those anti-science people should take care of themselves!
if Coal plants are so wonderful lets build a couple in Wichita one on the East Side one on the West.
They keep talking about “clean coal” technology.
Great. Install it in your existing Holcomb plant.
With the carbon and pollution you stop, you can then build another plant.
BUT NO, they know “clean coal technology” doesn’t really work.
That’s why they only promise to do it later . . .
When I first saw the headline, I thought they were talking about the post-er “sunflower5.”
Hehehehe.
And they’d be right too . . .
As someone who has actually used coal, I can tell you there is no such critter as “clean coal!”
And as someone who has worked with coal technologies I can tell you that right now we do not have clean coal technology. We should be researching that; it’s too bad the R&D was terminated.
I would point out also that Sunflower is supposed to be a rural co-op. What they hell are they doing trying to be a world class power producers. Their business is supposed to be providing power for their member co-ops. Kick the rock boys. It’s another Westar scheme