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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on March 25, 2010, 06:12:27 AM
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Legislation would add tire incineration to law boosting wind and solar energy
With just five words quietly slipped into legislation, Illinois lawmakers are moving to include tire burning in the state's definition of renewable energy, a change that would benefit a south suburban incinerator with a long history of pollution problems.
Adding the "incineration or burning of tires" to a measure intended to boost wind and solar energy would clear the way for Geneva Energy to reap lucrative green energy credits for its troubled incinerator in Ford Heights, one of the poorest suburbs in the U.S.
The legislative change also would make the tire burner a player in the growing market for renewable energy in Illinois, where power companies must get at least 10 percent of their electricity from green sources by 2015 and 25 percent by 2025.
Originally sponsored by Rep. David Miller a Dolton Democrat running for state comptroller, the measure would give tire burning, which generates large amounts of toxic air pollution, the same status as pollution-free wind and solar power. It apparently is designed to benefit the state's sole tire incinerator, in Miller's district.
A House committee approved Miller's bill last week, days after an investigator from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's civil rights division interviewed state officials about the tire burner. The agency is probing whether Illinois violated environmental justice laws by allowing the incinerator to operate in Ford Heights, a small village about 25 miles south of downtown Chicago, where more than 95 percent of the population is black and half live in poverty.
Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-tire-burning-20100320,0,2538589.story)
What a load of crap. Why do DemonRats hate minorities so much. Or do they just love donations more?
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My idea of green energy is all the environmental nutso's running in a wheel like rats.
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How bizarre. But since they started claiming that burning wood for heat was more 'Environmentally friendly' than using any kind of fossil fuel, it seems that no idea is really too stupid or contrary to science to fly in the Greenies warped little minds.
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Can we put the tires around the necks of politicians before we burn them??
No?? Okay, I would never suggest such a liberal thing anyways