Edited by author 12-10-2006 02:45 PM
Soren and I agree - NoSmog includes pros and cons of power plants. Sources are coming from different opinions and research work. Alternative power sources are posted for people to know. FPL can build a clean power plant but it seems they would rather put the "best possible" cheapest anti-pollution devices they can get away with so as not to hurt their coffers . First they are very lucky to be guaranteed 12% profit no matter what. Why can't I have that type of business incentives?

Second, there was an info that the power plant they're building in Glades County will have $9 million less scrubbers, i.e. less anti-pollution devices. If the Glades County Commissioners and its residents want this so badly for "tax benefit" and they will approve it no matter what, I would rather get FPL build this plant correctly with much better anti-pollution devices, less pollutant to the environment and it should be better than what they offered at St. Lucie County.- after all they renamed the same pulverized coal plant from SUPERCRITICAL to ULTRASUPERCRITICAL coal plant. So tell me what's the difference between the two with the latter less that $9 millions?

As for China and other poor countries - it is usually due to ignorance of the majority of the people and nosmog is there for them to read and get some information on almost everything related to power plant and other issues. I think we are getting there as there are other countries who have been to the site and has been coming back to read more information posted.

You can't blame these corporate owners moving their manufacturing firms to third world countries - this is about capitalism with less liabilities and cheaper to produce. Do I like it, of course not! Maybe you should ask the attorneys and some of these "do gooders" in the U.S. to stop some of these silly lawsuits such as knowingly "putting a cup of hot coffee on your lap is stupidity". Or parents who let their children run amok in department stores and end up getting hurt resulting to parents suing the dept. stores, or turning the street as a playground and blaming the drivers for negligence!

Japan goes to the Philippines and do logging, mining in the area causing a big problem on erosion and killing thousands of people. CSR Rinker is an Australian owned company and mining in the U.S. So it's not only U.S. who's benefitting from these countries as well. Don't forget the Alqueda groups and terrorists living in this country are using U.S. economy and sending money to their own countries to support terrorism worldwide. Other countries are benefitting from the U.S. We give millions if not billions of dollars in aid to these third world countries. I'm not even born in the U.S. and recently got my citizenship and I'm being patriotic!