Florida's Dirty Dozen
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January 29, 2008

Florida's Dirty Dozen

Cleanairwatch_2 Clean Air Watch has published a list of what it calls Florida’s “Dirty Dozen” electric power industry sources of global warming pollution.

"In order to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals set forth by Florida Governor Charlie Crist, these “Dirty Dozen” electric power plant units will probably need to be retired or repowered," according to Clean Air Watch.

The “Dirty Dozen” are on average 47 years old – older than the 35-year-old national average of coal-fired power plants, it points out.

Florida is a critical battleground in the fight against global warming, the groups say, because it ranks third in the nation in terms of power plant carbon dioxide emissions.

Click here to read more about the Dirty Dozen, who are in order of greenhouse gas emissions:

Plant Name               Owner                         Fuel Type                        

Scholz 2                     Gulf Power                     coal                            
Scholz 1                     Gulf Power                     coal                            
Suwannee 2                Progress Energy             oil                              
Big Bend ST1              Tampa Electric               coal                            
Crist 4                         Gulf Power                   coal                            
Suwannee 1                 Progress Energy            oil                              
Lansing Smith 2           Gulf Power                   coal                            
Bartow ST2                  Progress Energy            oil                              
Crist 6                         Gulf Power                   coal                            
Lansing Smith 1           Gulf Power                   coal                            
Crist 5                         Gulf Power                   coal                            
Crystal River                 Progress Energy          coal                            

- David Adams

Comments

Oh Oh Oh can I throw a tax cut at them?

Top 10 Defenders of the Truth against the bogus myth of Global Warming!

Now we'll have an increase from the electric companies to clean up their dirty plants. They'll claim they need to increase the cost to customers to fix the problems. Not that they don't make billions in profit now. Another line item they can add below the customer charge and fuel charges.

Oh, don't worry - they'll get their rate increases for bogus "improvements" - after all, they supported Charlie on amendment 1 - another bogus solution!

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