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webfarmerMore reports tumbling out of Greenpeace.
Greenpeace Calls Carbon Capture Retrofit to Power Plant a Scam - Times-Republican - 08 May 08 [includes graphic]
"In a report released this week, Greenpeace dismissed carbon capture and storage as a viable solution to combat global warming.
A future retrofit of Marshalltown’s new coal-fired power plant to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground was one of the possibilities reserved by the Iowa Utilities Board in their April 30 approval of the project. But the international activist organization says such technology is unproven and expensive — ultimately an excuse to build new coal-fired power plants, which are claimed to be the single largest contributor to global warming."
"The report, 'False Hope: Why Carbon Capture and Storage Won’t Save the Climate,' [PDF] instead calls on governments to invest in clean and proven energy technologies like wind and solar."
NASA Climatologist: Coal Plant Would be "Waste of Money" - Cedar Rapids Gazette - 09 Jan 08
"James Hansen, an Iowa native who heads NASA's Goddard Space Center in Manhattan, is expected to testify as a private citizen before the Iowa Utilities Board next week in opposition to Alliant Energy's proposed Marshalltown power plant.
'It would be a tremendous waste of money to put money into coal-fired power plants at this time, because it has become clear that we're going to need to phase out coal use where it is not possible to capture and sequester the carbon dioxide,' Hansen said. Coal plants being constructed now will never be able to fill out their useful lives because the government will be forced to regulate them out of existence, Hansen said."
Greenpeace Calls Carbon Capture Retrofit to Power Plant a Scam - Times-Republican - 08 May 08 [includes graphic]
"In a report released this week, Greenpeace dismissed carbon capture and storage as a viable solution to combat global warming.
A future retrofit of Marshalltown’s new coal-fired power plant to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground was one of the possibilities reserved by the Iowa Utilities Board in their April 30 approval of the project. But the international activist organization says such technology is unproven and expensive — ultimately an excuse to build new coal-fired power plants, which are claimed to be the single largest contributor to global warming."
"The report, 'False Hope: Why Carbon Capture and Storage Won’t Save the Climate,' [PDF] instead calls on governments to invest in clean and proven energy technologies like wind and solar."
NASA Climatologist: Coal Plant Would be "Waste of Money" - Cedar Rapids Gazette - 09 Jan 08
"James Hansen, an Iowa native who heads NASA's Goddard Space Center in Manhattan, is expected to testify as a private citizen before the Iowa Utilities Board next week in opposition to Alliant Energy's proposed Marshalltown power plant.
'It would be a tremendous waste of money to put money into coal-fired power plants at this time, because it has become clear that we're going to need to phase out coal use where it is not possible to capture and sequester the carbon dioxide,' Hansen said. Coal plants being constructed now will never be able to fill out their useful lives because the government will be forced to regulate them out of existence, Hansen said."
