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To: Brumar89 who wrote (910171)	12/22/2015 9:52:02 AM
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Greens are forcing removal of 4 hydro-electric dams on the Klamath river that provide a lot of clean energy. They don't even support clean energy. Whistleblower: Klamath Dam Removal Based on False Science 19Apr, 2014by Dave Hodges Print this articleFont size -16 + Barbara Peterson Green Screen Report The Department of Interior is misleading the public and purging scientists who don’t go along with an increasingly radical green agenda. Eight government scientists were recently fired or reassigned after voicing concerns to their superiors about faulty environmental science used for policy decisions. Which begs the question, “Are some government agencies manipulating science to advance political agendas?” Rural America has long been a target of environmentalists. Government agencies such as the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and the DOI (Department of Interior) have been hijacked by extreme elements of environmentalism and rural America is feeling the heat. When environmental protocol is pitted against the welfare of a rural community, these agencies almost exclusively side with the environmental cause, and adverse consequences to the human element are considered last, if at all. DOI has engaged in an aggressive crusade to obstruct and undermine the use of natural resources, restrict human access to public lands, and increase its influence over private property. Decisions made by the agency are presumed to be based on sound scientific analysis, but often times policy is driving the science, rather than science driving environmental policy. This has led to harmful decisions and a violation of the public trust. According to the DOI the premise for Klamath River dams removal is to restore Coho salmon spawning habitat above the dams even though there is no conclusive evidence the Coho were native to the area. Official DOI documents reveal scientific concerns that dam removal may, in fact, result in species decline based on millions of tons of toxic sediment build up behind the dams that will make its way to the ocean. Water temperature increases without the dams could also negatively impact the salmon. These studies were ignored. Concerns about the human toll and impact to local Klamath Basin communities were also brushed aside. Those most interested in the well-being of the environment they live and work in, were given a backseat to special interests thousands of miles away. The Klamath hydroelectric dams provide clean inexpensive energy to thousands of local residents who will be forced to pay much higher premiums if the dams are removed because California has strict new laws for use of renewable energy. The town of Happy Camp sits on the banks of the Klamath River and could be wiped out with seasonal flooding without the dams. Once Coho salmon are introduced into the upper Klamath, farmers and ranchers will be faced with water use restrictions and invasive government regulation of private land. The economic impact will be devastating, property values will depreciate and the agriculture community, often operating on slim profit margins, will be subjected to the fate of the once vibrant logging industry which fell victim to the spotted owl crusades. http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/04/19/whistleblower-klamath-dam-removal-based-on-false-science/

To: Brumar89 who wrote (910171)	12/22/2015 9:53:29 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587770

And yet, coal consumption is down 5% so far this year. "it would contradict your claim that the world is abandoning coal" It's not an on-off switch; it's a dimmer switch. Half of world's coal may go unmined to meet Paris climate target Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial revolution, is in hiding. While the world still has 890 billion tons of reserves, enough to last for more than 65 years, about half must stay underground if nations are to meet environmental limits agreed to this month in Paris, Bank of America Corp. said in a report. Burning less coal is the easiest way to lower emissions blamed for climate change, the bank said. The pact reached by 195 nations does not target specific fuels, yet coal remains the world's largest source of planet- warming carbon dioxide. A global oversupply of the power plant fuel has pushed producers into bankruptcy and sent prices to at least seven-year lows. The Paris agreement only further diminishes prospects for a recovery. “The latest carbon initiatives are the nail in the coffin for global coal,” Sabine Schels, Peter Helles and Franciso Blanch, analysts at Bank of America, said in the Friday report. If emissions limits take hold, “50 percent of the world's current coal reserves may never be dug out.” Coal demand stopped growing in 2014 for the first time since the 1990s as China's economy cooled, the Paris-based International Energy Agency said Dec. 18. Coal for delivery to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, an Atlantic benchmark, is trading near an eight-year low. Newcastle coal, a barometer for the Asia-Pacific market, is at the cheapest in records going back to 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show. In the United States, power generators are switching from coal to natural gas. CME Group Inc., which owns the New York Mercantile Exchange, ended a futures contract for Central Appalachia coal in 2016. Alpha Natural Resources Inc., Patriot Coal Corp., and Walter Energy Inc. are among producers that sought bankruptcy protection this year. “Coal has the bull's eye on it,” Lucas Pipes, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets & Co. in Arlington, Va., said Monday. “It has never been more villainized.” Read more: triblive.com