02 June 2010

KRLD News Radio 1080

A coal plant hearing today will have a new environmental twist. It’s the first time that a hearing on a new coal fired power plant will take testimony on the green house gas effect of the plant. The Tenaska plant being proposed near Abilene would capture CO2 emissions but Public Citizen’s Ryan Rittenhouse says that CO2 wouldn’t be stored at the plant. " The CO2 is not guaranteed to stay in the ground out there. Tenaska isn’t the people that are going to be pumping it underground out there. They’re just selling it off." Rittenhouse says it would be sold to oil drillers in the Permian Basin to force more oil out of the ground and he says there’s no guarantee that it would stay in the ground out there once the oil is gone.

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