Ohio Power Plants Increase GHG Output By 7.8 Million Tons In Just 1 Year

[hatrack]

Hmm . . . better call for some more voluntary controls, don't you think?

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WASHINGTON - Ohio power plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, increased by more than 7.8 million tons last year, one of the largest increases of any state.

Preliminary data gathered by the Environmental Protection Agency acid rain program, which monitors emissions from power plants, show the Ohio plants' output of carbon dioxide last year was 137.9 million tons, nearly 5.7 percent more than in 2004.

The largest single sources of the gas in Ohio were the J.M. Gavin power plant in Cheshire, which released nearly 19 million tons, and the Sammis Power Station at Stratton, 15.4 million tons.

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Nationwide, power plants produced more than 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2005, an increase of 48 million tons or almost 2 percent over 2004. Most of the gas came from coal-burning plants. "The increases in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants are directly related to increases in economic growth of a region," said Vicky Sullivan, environmental issues manager of the Southern Co., an Atlanta-based utility holding company. "Economic growth means more demand for power, and we are serving that demand," she added.

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060413/NEWS01/604130352/1056

[Sinti]

1. What the heck are they thinking?

It may be too late to turn the tide anyway, but isn't this kind of spitting in the face of mother nature/god/whatever? I guess when the methane trapped under the ice in the Arctic comes rushing out and threatens their lives and the lives of their children they'll stop to think about alternatives.

Sometimes I wonder if the Outer Limits writers weren't onto something when they made the show where aliens came, got into government, and started terraforming our planet via pollution. :crazy: