IGCC Fact sheet (2 page handout version) IGCC Fact sheet (longer version)
FBC plants operate at lower temperatures than conventional coal power plants. [2,3,4,5] FBC plants use low oxygen (excess air) levels (to reduce NOx formation). [2] Low oxygen levels and the lower temperature range used by CFB plants increases emissions of carbon monoxide. [2] The lower operating temperature leads to far higher emissions of nitrous oxide…
New York Times Published: September 29, 2003 This country needs a purposeful long-term energy strategy that reduces itsdependence on foreign oil and deals with climate change and all the otherair-quality issues that are directly related to the burning of fossil fuelslike oil and coal. So how has Congress chosen to develop such a strategy?By passing…
By Christian Davenport Austin American-Statesman Staff April 16, 2000 Original articles (were) online at: http://www.austin360.com:80/news/1metro/2000/04/16pipelines_001.html Several lines cross Central Texas, but they go unnoticed — until an accident happens They are three feet below the surface, a labyrinth of steel veins that pump oil and gasoline from one end of the country to the other…
Where are oil and gas extraction connected to human rights abuses? Where isn’t it? Oil extraction is a very capital-intensive undertaking, dominated by large corporations and centralized governments, and usually requiring cooperation between the two. Often, the rights, health, and even lives of the local population are ignored, abused or assaulted.
Updated December 2009 [See printable PDF of this fact sheet] Where Our Energy Comes From
2007 Energy Bill: Look Before You Leap!December 13, 2007 Help STOP Subsidies to the Ethanol, Coal, Landfill, Incinerator and Nuclear Industries! WE LOST. Late in the day on 12/13/2007, the Senate passed the bill in an 86-8 vote. It’ll soon coast through the House and be signed by resident Bush. The bill passed without the…
Other useful resources: Groups opposing cement kilns and the use of cement kilns for waste incineration:
– by Kaya Banton, Chester Environmental Justice My name is Kaya Banton and I have been a resident of Chester, Pennsylvania all of my life. Chester is a small city right outside of Philadelphia known as one of the worst cases of environmental racism. There are a number of polluting facilities in and surrounding Chester.…
We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
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