Reply #4: Nuclear New Jersey's grandfathered coal-fired plants just get dirtier [View All]

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http://njpirg.org/NJ.asp?id2=15559&id3=NJ&

75 Percent of New Jersey’s Dirtiest Power Plants Have Increased Soot Pollution in Past Decade

TRENTON—As a key U.S. Senate committee considers the Bush administration’s bill to delay and weaken clean air safeguards, a new Clear the Air report released today by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) finds that 75 percent of New Jersey’s oldest and dirtiest power plants are getting dirtier, not cleaner.

“When it comes to power plant pollution, many of New Jersey’s dirtiest power plants just keep getting dirtier,” said Emily Rusch from NJPIRG. “Pollution from power plants fuels global warming and causes serious health problems, including asthma attacks, heart and lung disease, and even premature deaths.”

New Jersey routinely tops national lists for unhealthy soot and smog pollution from power plants and transportation. Most recently, in December 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that 13 New Jersey counties have unhealthy levels of fine particle soot.

According to the new report, annual soot-forming sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions increased at many of New Jersey’s oldest and dirtiest power plants and 24 percent on average statewide from 1995 to 2003. Smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions decreased statewide, but increased at PSEG’s Hudson plant. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the largest contributor to global warming, increased at most power plants and 25 percent on average statewide. There are no limits on carbon dioxide pollution.

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and another one...

www.net.org/air/local/nj.pdf

And nuclear New Jersey is buying increasing amounts of out-of-state electricity generated by coal...

http://www.dailymail.com/story/Opinion/+/200602013/Making+power+more+reliable+/

AMERICAN Electric Power plans to build a 550-mile transmission line from the John Amos plant to New Jersey. This would take eight years and cost $3 billion.

A 765-kilovolt line from Poca to Pohatcong, N.J., makes sense. West Virginia has the coal that generates the electricity; New Jersey needs the ability to import reliable -- and low-cost-- power.

This would make the Northeast a more viable and more constant customer of West Virginia coal. The company pointed out that consumers paid $1.8 billion in extra costs over the last two years because of the lack of transmission line capacity.

Instead of cheap coal, the more expensive natural gas and oil were used to generate electricity.

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This is what nuclear New Jersey is selling us...

Coal

Coal

Coal

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And does the Southern Company give a shit about global warming???

(nope: the Southern Co. was a charter member of the Climate Coalition - a greenwash outfit that spread monstrous lies about the scientific evidence for anthropogenic global change)

Will the Southern Company shut down its dirtiest-in-the-nation grandfathered coal-fired units after they build these shiny new nukes???

(nope: they won't)

Will the Southern Co. be lavished with billions of taxpayer dollars so they can sell their electricity back to the taxpayers at the highest price allowed??

(Ohhh yes they will)

Will the Southern Co. pay for the full cost of spent fuel disposal from this shiny new nuke???

(nope: taxpayers pay for that too)

This is a Red Letter Day for the Southern Co. indeed.