No Energy Plant For You, Georgia

Yup, the enviro wackos win another one.

The construction of a coal-fired power plant in Georgia was halted Monday when a judge ruled that the plant's builders must first obtain a permit from state regulators that limits the amount of carbon dioxide emissions.

Fulton County Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore 's decision overturned a ruling that allowed the construction of the $2 billion Longleaf Energy Plant, which would become Georgia's first new coal-fired plant in more than two decades.
Environmentalists said the decision marks the first time that a judge has applied a U.S. Supreme Court finding that carbon dioxide is a pollutant to emissions from an industrial source.

Just add this one to the growing list of why you pay so much at the pump. All this week, we have brought you stories of one sort of energy or another being squelched by the enviro-Nazis, whether because of prairie chickens or some other environmental concern. Do you get the hint that the oh so compassionate tree huggers are trying to kill you with their kind of kindness? They seem hell bent on making humans become a member of the endangered species list.
It wasn't enough that last summer while Georgia was going through a drought in the Atlanta area that we were being forced to send water downstream to Florida to ensure the survival of mussels, a program that is still ongoing, but now they have any sort of energy production for this country squarely in their crosshairs. Liberals and Dems are working hard to cause you pain, only so that they can then tell you "they feeeel your pain" while retreating to their multimillion dollar, energy-hogging, Countrywide "sweet deal"-financed mansions to eat arugula salad while scheming to take oil company profits or, worse yet, make them a part of the government so that they will have even more money to spend on their grand, doomed-to-failure, social experiments.

The plant is expected to create more than 100 full-time jobs and give millions of dollars in tax revenues to Early County, where almost a quarter of the 12,000 residents live in poverty. It would power more than a half-million homes through utilities in Georgia, Alabama and Florida.

Of course, this cottage industry in America, environmentalists supported by zealous lawyers and activist judges, is becoming the perfect storm for the destruction of America's economy. What communism and Al Queda terrorists couldn't do now seems to be at the mercy of these activists.

Nilles said he and other environmental attorneys are preparing similar challenges to delay about 30 coal plants now in active litigation. "The issue is now teed up from Nevada to North and South Carolina," he said.

And of course the big boogie man is Al Gore's make-believe best friend and partner in crime, global warming.

"It's a scandal that energy companies are still trying to build coal plants even though they cause global warming," she said. "I can't be more thrilled. It's a huge ruling. This is a new day in the United States, and I'm thrilled."