POLLUTION SUCKS! MINES SUCK! THANKS TO THE F***CKING MINES IN MY COMUNITY COUNTLESS PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED TO MOVE BECAUSE OUR LANDLORDES ARE BEING BOUGHT OVER BY THE POLLUTING, TOWN RUINING PEOPLE THAT JUST OVER 20 YEARS AGO KILLED ALMOST EVERY MAN HERE! DOWN WITH INDUSTRY UP WITH GREEN!!!
you can think of coal as humanitys smoking addiction, desperately trying to quit, yet tons of our energy runs from coal.
Only way to quit smoking, uhm i ment burning coal is to continue to advance in alternatives (geothermal, nuclear, solar, wind, tidal) untill they are very very compettitive with the global market. This includes being able to recycle any parts that break down, especially parts which use rare earths.
I believe you are working backwards, if you truly want to shut down the coal powered plants, you need to provide good green jobs! There are people who mine coal, others who transport it, and those who work at the coal plants; these people need good, green jobs. We can create them, provide training to work them, and match or pay more than they are making presently, involved with coal production and coal powered plants. All will be happier, healthier, and the coal plants will be no more. Correct?
@814me2u definetly1 where i live there are 9 windmills, they imploy one person. there is also a mine where i live, it will require 200 people to restore and countless others to operate and pays twice as much. so unless they fing "green" jobs for these people there is no way they can live off of it. and considering there is only around 1000 people in my comunity 200 is alot.
if this plant was so toxic the government wouldve shut this down along time ago but yet its been standing since 1912? strange that people in archer park, bridgeport, china town and other surrounding communities arent complaining.
leilar you have no real facts or argument, im sure even if they close the plant youll still be complaining about how sick you supposedly are. im sure youre an easily manipulated ignorant person and believe everything you hear, just like how i am a poor poor sick child!
@lalamcnoodle I am not complaining, I have been stating facts, but I am finished talkinging to you as I don't waste my time trying to convince closed minded people like like....you will be getting sick ....you wait and then you will remember me. don't comment anymore as I won't respond to you.
thinkingthingsthru is exactly right. If you do a little fact checking, you will find that almost all of the particulate matter in the air is caused by construction activity, NOT power plant emissions. If you think nukes are the answer, think again. I have taken a few wire-brush showers, and that "dust you can't see" is alot more harmful than dust you can. So, let's see...Who stands to gain the most if all coal plants are shut down? Follow the money, and watch what happens to your electric bill.
I'll tell you what's stupid-People that don't know anything trying to persuade everyone that they are right. The video shown was clearly shot in cold temperatures which accounts for the thick plume of "smoke" that you see, along with the blowing snow. You people are propagandists, trying to scare people that didn't grow up with daddy's credit cards in their school lunch box. When I sit at the stoplights, I am choking on diesel exhaust from thousands of busses, NOT coal plant emissions! Morons...
This video is "doctored" the only thing that comes out of those stacks is steam. Your "facts" are doctored. You may need a head doctor. Why are there so many kids that go on tour there. Nuclear waste is your problem. The guy who starts this garbage... car couldn't pass an emissions test and he smokes like a chimney. we got pics..He gets kids to do his dirty work while they get arrested. and he doesn't.
"the only thing that comes out of those stacks is steam" Really? As in: the other gases are not there because they don't exist because they're not in the Bible? You can't seriously be that indoctrinated by fossil fuel propaganda as to believe something so stupid in your proper mind, can you?
I'm not going to assume things here, but maybe you should reconsider what you said about someone needing a head doctor...
Very strange, my dad works at this plant for over 30 years and he is not ill, if he thought the plant was unsafe then he wouldn't work there, it is a choice! i live in the Pilsen community? I am not sick nor is my family and friends that live in Little Village, Brighton Park, Bridgeport China town. Green peace wants Chicago to lose over 300 jobs and people to become HOMELESS. These activists aren't even NATIVE CHICAGOANS, as for Leilarmendez I'm sure u live in a rat roach infested home.
@lalamcnoodle You poor, poor, sick child! You have no idea who I am, and yet you judge me.....your comments show me what kind of a person you are. I will pray that someday you find peace. I pray that your father never gets sick. You are lucky that you aren't sick YET, because you will be sick soon. ...you watch and see.
Actually studies have shown these plants have no effect on air and environmental quality. The Fisk & Crawford power plants burn low sulfur and low ash coal form the powder river basin. They are as clean burning in environmental health impacts as natural gas. The plume coming out of the stack is water vapor. Drive by the plants on a summer day you won't see anything coming out of them. Closing these plants will hurt the poor and elderly in Chicago due to higher tax rates and loss of tax revenue.
@thinkingthingsthru Who are you? I live within walking distance from one of the plants and not only is it difficult to breathe but these plants also leave a film of soot in my hair , clothes, nails, in my home etc. Closing these plants would allow the poor and the elderly to breathe again. I wonder who is paying you to say what you just said....People should come before profit!
@leilarmendez Wow Really? you probably smoke and drink and that's why your house is filthy. I live near the plant as well A block AWAY, and why doesnt the inside of my house look like yours? Clean up your filth and get off the bandwagon. Where does your mother and father work? and where do you work? Why don't you do something better and worry about child prostitution, gangs and violence that go on in the neighborhood. And quit using electricity if you feel so strong about this issue.
@leilarmendez Bullshit I have worked at Coal fired power plants for 34 years and most burned 3-4 times the coal these burned. The local environment was always clean. People run at lunch time on the plant premises, not diffuicult to breathe. Large utility coal boilers don't have soot because of complete combustion and pollution control equipment.The poor will really be hurt when coal plants shut down since we would have to rely on Natural Gas to produce power.(renewables do not work)
@leilarmendez IMHO you are very short sighted and not open minded. These plants burn coal in a manner that does not harm the environment. Why do you want t make electricity not affordable for the poor and middle class by shutting down these low cost producing plants. Plus it will hurt the local communities on taxes and businees. Note all these Greenpeance protestors are from out of state. Their rich parents support them.
There are so many better ways to create energy than coal! Why is Chicago falling behind in innovation?
We have all these awesome new ways to create energy and all people can say is "wow...that's great" but nobody ever thinks to implement it! Stop talking and start doing!
POLLUTION SUCKS! MINES SUCK! THANKS TO THE F***CKING MINES IN MY COMUNITY COUNTLESS PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED TO MOVE BECAUSE OUR LANDLORDES ARE BEING BOUGHT OVER BY THE POLLUTING, TOWN RUINING PEOPLE THAT JUST OVER 20 YEARS AGO KILLED ALMOST EVERY MAN HERE! DOWN WITH INDUSTRY UP WITH GREEN!!!
MegaSleepy1234 3 months ago
OH yeah..... A couple of windmills should surely power the entire city of Chicago! Fuck you greenpeace.
WhiteGangster400 4 months ago 2
you can think of coal as humanitys smoking addiction, desperately trying to quit, yet tons of our energy runs from coal.
Only way to quit smoking, uhm i ment burning coal is to continue to advance in alternatives (geothermal, nuclear, solar, wind, tidal) untill they are very very compettitive with the global market. This includes being able to recycle any parts that break down, especially parts which use rare earths.
SereneiBE 5 months ago
I believe you are working backwards, if you truly want to shut down the coal powered plants, you need to provide good green jobs! There are people who mine coal, others who transport it, and those who work at the coal plants; these people need good, green jobs. We can create them, provide training to work them, and match or pay more than they are making presently, involved with coal production and coal powered plants. All will be happier, healthier, and the coal plants will be no more. Correct?
814me2u 8 months ago
@814me2u definetly1 where i live there are 9 windmills, they imploy one person. there is also a mine where i live, it will require 200 people to restore and countless others to operate and pays twice as much. so unless they fing "green" jobs for these people there is no way they can live off of it. and considering there is only around 1000 people in my comunity 200 is alot.
MegaSleepy1234 3 months ago
if this plant was so toxic the government wouldve shut this down along time ago but yet its been standing since 1912? strange that people in archer park, bridgeport, china town and other surrounding communities arent complaining.
lalamcnoodle 9 months ago
leilar you have no real facts or argument, im sure even if they close the plant youll still be complaining about how sick you supposedly are. im sure youre an easily manipulated ignorant person and believe everything you hear, just like how i am a poor poor sick child!
lalamcnoodle 9 months ago
@lalamcnoodle I am not complaining, I have been stating facts, but I am finished talkinging to you as I don't waste my time trying to convince closed minded people like like....you will be getting sick ....you wait and then you will remember me. don't comment anymore as I won't respond to you.
leilarmendez 9 months ago
thinkingthingsthru is exactly right. If you do a little fact checking, you will find that almost all of the particulate matter in the air is caused by construction activity, NOT power plant emissions. If you think nukes are the answer, think again. I have taken a few wire-brush showers, and that "dust you can't see" is alot more harmful than dust you can. So, let's see...Who stands to gain the most if all coal plants are shut down? Follow the money, and watch what happens to your electric bill.
snakeboy60 9 months ago
I'll tell you what's stupid-People that don't know anything trying to persuade everyone that they are right. The video shown was clearly shot in cold temperatures which accounts for the thick plume of "smoke" that you see, along with the blowing snow. You people are propagandists, trying to scare people that didn't grow up with daddy's credit cards in their school lunch box. When I sit at the stoplights, I am choking on diesel exhaust from thousands of busses, NOT coal plant emissions! Morons...
snakeboy60 9 months ago
This video is "doctored" the only thing that comes out of those stacks is steam. Your "facts" are doctored. You may need a head doctor. Why are there so many kids that go on tour there. Nuclear waste is your problem. The guy who starts this garbage... car couldn't pass an emissions test and he smokes like a chimney. we got pics..He gets kids to do his dirty work while they get arrested. and he doesn't.
Renaeandbob 9 months ago
@Renaeandbob
"the only thing that comes out of those stacks is steam" Really? As in: the other gases are not there because they don't exist because they're not in the Bible? You can't seriously be that indoctrinated by fossil fuel propaganda as to believe something so stupid in your proper mind, can you?
I'm not going to assume things here, but maybe you should reconsider what you said about someone needing a head doctor...
arneperschel 9 months ago
Very strange, my dad works at this plant for over 30 years and he is not ill, if he thought the plant was unsafe then he wouldn't work there, it is a choice! i live in the Pilsen community? I am not sick nor is my family and friends that live in Little Village, Brighton Park, Bridgeport China town. Green peace wants Chicago to lose over 300 jobs and people to become HOMELESS. These activists aren't even NATIVE CHICAGOANS, as for Leilarmendez I'm sure u live in a rat roach infested home.
lalamcnoodle 9 months ago
@lalamcnoodle You poor, poor, sick child! You have no idea who I am, and yet you judge me.....your comments show me what kind of a person you are. I will pray that someday you find peace. I pray that your father never gets sick. You are lucky that you aren't sick YET, because you will be sick soon. ...you watch and see.
leilarmendez 9 months ago
Pleas watch this highly educational PBS documentary about the life of Nikola Tesla!
" Tesla - The Master of Lightning " watch?v=SkcM-Dw1eBI
depro9 9 months ago
Wow, very moving and enlightening video. It is time to quit coal and other toxic ways of obtaining energy sources.
TeamEarthNow 9 months ago
Actually studies have shown these plants have no effect on air and environmental quality. The Fisk & Crawford power plants burn low sulfur and low ash coal form the powder river basin. They are as clean burning in environmental health impacts as natural gas. The plume coming out of the stack is water vapor. Drive by the plants on a summer day you won't see anything coming out of them. Closing these plants will hurt the poor and elderly in Chicago due to higher tax rates and loss of tax revenue.
thinkingthingsthru 10 months ago
@thinkingthingsthru Who are you? I live within walking distance from one of the plants and not only is it difficult to breathe but these plants also leave a film of soot in my hair , clothes, nails, in my home etc. Closing these plants would allow the poor and the elderly to breathe again. I wonder who is paying you to say what you just said....People should come before profit!
leilarmendez 9 months ago
@leilarmendez Wow Really? you probably smoke and drink and that's why your house is filthy. I live near the plant as well A block AWAY, and why doesnt the inside of my house look like yours? Clean up your filth and get off the bandwagon. Where does your mother and father work? and where do you work? Why don't you do something better and worry about child prostitution, gangs and violence that go on in the neighborhood. And quit using electricity if you feel so strong about this issue.
lalamcnoodle 9 months ago
@leilarmendez Bullshit I have worked at Coal fired power plants for 34 years and most burned 3-4 times the coal these burned. The local environment was always clean. People run at lunch time on the plant premises, not diffuicult to breathe. Large utility coal boilers don't have soot because of complete combustion and pollution control equipment.The poor will really be hurt when coal plants shut down since we would have to rely on Natural Gas to produce power.(renewables do not work)
thinkingthingsthru 9 months ago
@thinkingthingsthru It is obvious who is paying you.....I pray that you don't get sick.
leilarmendez 9 months ago
@leilarmendez IMHO you are very short sighted and not open minded. These plants burn coal in a manner that does not harm the environment. Why do you want t make electricity not affordable for the poor and middle class by shutting down these low cost producing plants. Plus it will hurt the local communities on taxes and businees. Note all these Greenpeance protestors are from out of state. Their rich parents support them.
thinkingthingsthru 9 months ago
Lets stop climate change!
Watch our upcoming documentary about climate change activists and find out what YOU can do to change the world. Just Do It!
JustDoItFilm 1 year ago
There are so many better ways to create energy than coal! Why is Chicago falling behind in innovation?
We have all these awesome new ways to create energy and all people can say is "wow...that's great" but nobody ever thinks to implement it! Stop talking and start doing!
GrowTheTruth 1 year ago
O.o NO!!! Don't quit coal, I love acid rain killing the fish in ponds etc!! o.O
mythicalhell 1 year ago