Fossil Fuel Hatred Run Amok: Sierra Club Against Clean Air in PA
Converting from burning coal to burning natural gas to produce electricity is, according to the vast majority of Americans, a good thing to do. Coal burns much dirtier than natgas--it's a plain and simple fact. We're not slamming coal or saying we should stop burning coal--we're just keepin' it real. When Invenergy announced they planned to build Pennsylvania's largest gas-fired electric plant near Scranton, in Jessup Borough (Lackawanna County), PA, and fire it with cheap, abundant and clean-burning Marcellus Shale gas, most folks welcomed it (see Marcellus Gas to Power Combined-Cycle Electricity Plant in NE PA). Oh, there's always a small minority who oppose such plans (see Gas-Powered Electric Plant to be Built “on Thousands of People”). You would think so-called environmentalists would be the first in line to support such a project because it makes the air cleaner. But then, you would be wrong. A classic case in point is the Sierra Club--an organization that exists to fundraise. The Sierra Club is against the Jessup electric plant project. Why? Because it will "encourage further natural gas hydraulic fracturing in Northeast Pennsylvania"...
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