East Texas Power Plant shut down

[Hogmauler]

Hallsville power plant will be shut down in 2023. Folks this bad bad news. This plant powers parts of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Why? The Sierra Club and other green e c o organizations have filed a lawsuit against the EPA for failure to monitor and enforce green guidelines. I’m paraphrasing here.
I totally agree that we have to be good stewards of Gods creation but not in a way that literally will create hardships in peoples lives. And death in some instances if the elderly can’t hear their homes. Please start or continue to pray for the downfall of these Marxist organizations and for Gods mercy upon or nation that has fallen so far away from Him and His precepts.

[Tyrex750]

Has nothin to do with God, its dumbass people.

[rolylane6]

Dumb*** or not, they're still under His authority.

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[Man]

So they are shutting it down in 2023 regardless of whether or not the area's it supplies will have an alternative source in place day of shutdown?

[HogHunter34]

It’s the Californians moving in bringing their environmental focus with them. They will knock out coal burners one by one. Same thing happened to Big Brown in Fairfield & there’s another on radar for a 2028 shutdown

[CEO]

https://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/counties/pirkey-plant-closure-to-bring-economic-losses-potential-opportunities-to-marshall-area/article_9ea068f6-5253-11ec-a98d-df31d835ef85.html

[Hogmauler]

So they are shutting it down in 2023 regardless of whether or not the area's it supplies will have an alternative source in place day of shutdown?

Southwestern Electric Power Company, SWEPO, “ elected to shuttle the plant after an economical analysis weighing the cost of environmental compliance and needed maintenance “
They went on to say that this will devastate towns like Marshall, Kilgore, Carthage etc. They are not done either folks. They have seven other plants inTexas in their sights.

[Hogmauler]

Dumb*** or not, they're still under His authority.

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Well said Roly. How arrogant can people be to actually think we are going to control the climate.

[lovemylegacy]

We need to shut “them” down and send them back to Cali

What are our politicians doing about this?

[Wampuscat]

This was the most important part of that article. Its in the last paragraph.

The meeting was sponsored by the Just Transition Fund, a nonpartisan grantmaking organization helping coal communities navigate economic transitions away from fossil fuels.

Every time you see the word "transition" in an article or spoken by a politician, you should be worried for your future.

[Hogmauler]

We as a nation, or half a nation has to find a non violent way to shut this bull shat down for good.

[Lost10mm]

Unfortunately, this will continue because our government doesn't want to step in and help the plants come current or stop those who are shutting them down. Maybe they haven't noticed, but our energy grid has already had struggles before shutting down plants.

[Quackerbox]

They already got gibbons creek.

It all makes perfect sense really. Build more homes for all the new people moving in. Add 25 electric plugs for battery cars at buccees. Then tear down plants to power all that crap.

Idiots

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[Hayek'sPupil]

Unfortunately, this will continue because our government doesn't want to step in and help the plants come current or stop those who are shutting them down. Maybe they haven't noticed, but our energy grid has already had struggles before shutting down plants.

Government is the problem not the solution. As stated previously, government mandated environmental compliance increased to cost of operating to the point where the plant was forced to shut down. The company ran an analysis on whether to continue operating or shut down. Sometimes the cost to shut down is more expensive than it is to continue operating so they keep pumping. Shutting down reduces the variable costs to zero but the company is committed to paying its fixed costs in the short run. Not the case here.

These people are not stupid. They know how to get a coal plant to shut down through heavy regulation to accomplish their anti-humanistic and anti-fossil fuel agenda while they fly back and forth on their private jets.

Wise up grasshopper

[BowhunterB]

Yeah, happening all over. Like OP said, I am all for being a good steward of the environment, but we have to move forward rationally and logically. They want to move forward at breakneck speed. What is really sad is all the new alternatives they are pushing aren't so clean in some aspects either and the "green" is more about the green in the politicians pockets.