By Steve Milloy
This excerpt from a ClimateWire story (”Carbon Capture: Consultants help companies tap into stimulus dollars,” July 17) describes the real energy crisis:
Take the case of Joe Tondu, president of Tondu Corp., an independent power generator looking to construct new plants. Tondu said his firm couldn’t build coal plants because no one would approve its permits, and it couldn’t build carbon-capturing coal plants because their costs remain too high. When the company struck out to invest in renewables, it met another roadblock: To get stimulus funds from the Department of Energy, Tondu would have to get an environmental impact review for each project. That would have offered local interests “a huge opportunity to stall your project for years and years and years,” he argued, and it ultimately derailed the company’s plan. “It’s almost unbelievably easy to slow down … it created another hurdle we just couldn’t get through,” he said
We’re not running out of energy. The crisis is being caused by the government and greens who have choke-holds on the ability of businesses to produce energy.Source