Celebrating Coal
Celebrate Coal! Rally Announced for Monday
Demonstration Will Counter Negative Propaganda of Capitol Power Plant Protesters
A rally to Celebrate Coal! and Keep Energy Affordable will be held in front of the Capitol Power Plant on Monday, March 2nd, from 1 to 3 PM, the Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today. Celebrate Coal! and Keep Energy Affordable is designed to counter the negative propaganda of Capitol Climate Protection’s protest scheduled for the same time in a park near the Longworth and Rayburn House Office Buildings.
CEI has applied to the U. S. Capitol Police for a permit to hold the rally in front of the Capitol Power Plant on the south side of E Street, S. E., between South Capitol Street and New Jersey Avenue, S. E. The District of Columbia Metropolitan Police have also been notified that the rally will be held on the north side of E Street if the Capitol Police deny the permit. The anti-coal protest group, Capitol Climate Protection, has apparently not applied for a permit to protest around the Capitol Power Plant.
“The goal of Celebrate Coal! is to publicize the colossal benefits of coal-fired power and the need for access to affordable energy. If the anti-coal zealots are allowed to prevail politically, electric rates will skyrocket for most Americans and many jobs will be lost in energy-intensive industries as a result of higher power prices,” said Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at CEI and one of the event’s organizers.
CEI invites supporters of affordable energy to attend the rally to Celebrate Coal! and Keep Energy Affordable. For further information, contact Myron Ebell at mebell@cei.org or (202) 320-6685 (cell phone).
When: 1-3 PM, Monday, March 2nd.
Where: E Street, S. E., between South Capitol Street and New Jersey Avenue, S. E.
Metro: Capitol South on the Orange and Blue Lines. From the Metro Station exit at C Street and First Street, S. E., walk two blocks south on First Street (away from the House Office Buildings and Capitol), then turn right on to E Street, S. E. and walk one block west, then cross New Jersey Ave, S. E. The rally will be on the south side or the north side of the street.
posted by Carl Kilo at 2:13:00 AM
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Anonymous said ... (10:21 PM) :
post a commentI cannot get over how the anti-coal naysayers believe we can just quit our need for coal and the answer lies in immediate renewables,conversion and conservation. Yes, I've heard their banter, but it just doesn't compute.
First of all on the renewables front, they are first at the registration line for all public meetings to decry windmills as they harm the birds, bats and their viewshed. They don't like biofuels due to their carbon emissions, nitrogen loadings and increased sedimentation from crop tillage due to crop cultivation. Solar panels, while a great resources, just doesn't make economic sense in VA on a $/kW basis. Conservation measures while worthy of all of actions will not save the day in the near term. And God forbid should we mention nuclear energy! Energy is like a drug addiction...there is a period of weaning off to get to the end point. We need coal during this period while other opportunities are validated.
For those who are against mining, and I'm speaking to those who decry strip mining while in their heart they also want deep mining to go away, they forget one small point...if you want coal mining to cease, then buy up the land, the coal reserves, the mountains you claim are yours due to your love for them and then you can stop coal mining. Don't support a Takings without compensation to those affected. And after you do that, maybe you can convince your President to provide a stimulus package to all of those who will lose their jobs from the loss of coal and all those who will be impacted from the economic impacts. I find it hard to believe in your cause when you use energy produced from coal everyday in your lives to beat up on this energy resource. Show me an environmental group that has purchased renewable energy to fuel your laptops, your internet websites, the paper mills that produce the paper your spread your propaganda on, that fuel the refineries for the gasoline you put into your vehicles, that fuel the tractors that plowed the ground to produce the food you eat, the chemical plants that produce the basics of your clothing, every aspect of your livelihood. I thank the fine men and women who have produced coal for over a century, and developed our nation into what it is. I'm proud to be a coal miner, the grandson of a coal miner and my many friends who are coal miners. We are people who love our nation, our environment and our way of life. For a nation with the most stringent air pollution controls in the world, I wonder why the environmentalist have not focused their attention on those nations that continue without regard relative to our environment? Such as China and India? And others. China has one of the worst environmental records and mine safety records in the world. I don't see anyone going to China to stage protests, sit ins, civil disobedience, etc. Wonder why? Is CO2 any different in China than the US? Must be..maybe it's a little thing called Freedom and fear from not having a Bill of Rights.