Friday, February 05, 2010
Beshear Stresses Importance Of Coal
KENTUCKY....
In hopes of gaining support for the White House’s energy policy, President Barack Obama met in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington with governors of coal-producing states, including Governor Steve Beshear. Obama announced a series of “clean coal” proposals which included pledging to fund five to 10 commercial carbon capture and storage demonstration projects by 2016. In addition, the White House announced a carbon capture and storage task force charged with figuring out how the nation can deploy affordable cleaner-coal technology on a widespread scale within 10 years. Beshear promised Kentucky would aggressively pursue some of the projects, while also stressing the state and nation are heavily reliant on coal. On the issue of cap-and-trade, Beshear told the President, “It will drastically increase the cost of electricity in our state and other energy-producing states and drive industry not only out of our state but out of this country.”
In hopes of gaining support for the White House’s energy policy, President Barack Obama met in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington with governors of coal-producing states, including Governor Steve Beshear. Obama announced a series of “clean coal” proposals which included pledging to fund five to 10 commercial carbon capture and storage demonstration projects by 2016. In addition, the White House announced a carbon capture and storage task force charged with figuring out how the nation can deploy affordable cleaner-coal technology on a widespread scale within 10 years. Beshear promised Kentucky would aggressively pursue some of the projects, while also stressing the state and nation are heavily reliant on coal. On the issue of cap-and-trade, Beshear told the President, “It will drastically increase the cost of electricity in our state and other energy-producing states and drive industry not only out of our state but out of this country.”
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