Thanks Barack… 3 West Virginia Coal Plants to Close

Gateway Pundit  "Before the election in 2008 Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that he would cripple the coal industry and bankrupt coal plants."

The plants operated under subsidiary Monongahela Power. Mon Power recently finished a study of unscrubbed coal fired plants in the system to determine the potential impact of the most recent environmental regulations from EPA. Company officials determined the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) made it unfeasible to retrofit or continue operating the three plants.“The high cost to implement MATS and other environmental rules is the reason these Mon Power plants are being retired,” said James R. Haney, regional president of Mon Power and president of West Virginia Operations for FirstEnergy.

They told us back in August this was coming:  Getting ready for a wave of coal-plant shutdowns   "CRS notes that many of the plants most affected by the new EPA rules were facing extinction anyway: “Many of these plants are inefficient and are being replaced by more efficient combined cycle natural gas plants, a development likely to be encouraged if the price of competing fuel—natural gas—continues to be low, almost regardless of EPA rules.”


Not that it matters to the Obama Administration any more than this shutdown that killed the economy of Garibaldi, Oregon back in the 70's bothered the EPA.

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Oh, yeah- there's this as well: Forest fires and wind turbines: The danger no one is talking about

Industrial Wind Turbines Cause Real Damage.




(Left) Two griffon vultures killed by turbines in Navarre, Spain. One of them has been sliced in half by the blade.