Barack Obama Supports Developing Clean Coal Technology

This TV ad uses Barack Obama's own words to punctuate the fact that investing in clean coal technologies promotes energy independence, creates jobs, and ensures sustained environmental progress including the ability to capture and store CO2 in response to climate change concerns. The footage used in the ad comes from a campaign rally in Lebanon, VA, held September 9, 2008. http://www.americaspower.org

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[Wesley Doughman]

President Obama says that he was for Clean Coal Technology. From WYMT "It's a bill aimed to reduce emissions and improve the environment, but many people in eastern Kentucky say the proposed Cap and Trade bill would devastate the commonwealth. On Saturday, thousands rallied together in Knott County to have their message heard. "I think everybody here is for doing the proper coal mining process, making it as safe and as environmentally friendly as possible," says Joe Grieshop, Harlan Co.J/E

[balancedenergy]

Thanks for that comment, Joe.

[iskandhar]

sorry to be politically incorrect, but doesn't this make him the Poster Boy for "clean coal"?

[balancedenergy]

Barack Obama supports clean coal. Here's what he said a while back while he was on the campaign trail: I am a big proponent of clean-coal technology and I want us to move rapidly in developing those sequestration technologies that's required. What we need to do though is to put clean coal technology on the fast track and that means money. It means investment in research. That's something that we should have already been doing.

[Frettsy]

would someone please explain to me how investing in clean coal technologies promotes energy independence? if anything it makes coal less affordable. and how does it create any new jobs?

[balancedenergy]

Frettsy: First of all, coal is Americas most abundant resource, so USING it for energy through clean coal technologies would make us energy independent

Clean energy is one of President Obamas pillars of his economic recovery plan. In a report conducted by BBC, a coalition of labor groups found that power plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies could create between 5 mil and 7 mil man-years of employment during construction and a quarter of a million permanent jobs.

[PeaceChannel711]

Look up how it is mined!!! There is no such thing as "clean coal". They are blowing up entire mountains and the pollution runs down into the water supplies. West Virginia is a disaster area, as well as any areas that the rivers and streams reach. This is very sad.

[branmaster7]

i thought obama was intelligent.... lol

[rocketsredglare101]

"The cheapest way to stop global climate change is not converting to

solar power or buying a hybrid car. It's putting on a condom.

That's the conclusion of a London School Of Economics study showing money spent on contraception is five times more efficient than money spent on clean energy technologies. It backs up a recent Oregon State University study tha

t concludes overpopulation and massive immigration is the single biggest threat to the environment." NUMBERSUSA(DOT)COM

[standforamerica]

it's not the governmnets job to spend money that is not theirs just for R/D.

[Frettsy]

I mean, I'm all for us using coal.. we already do. but shifting to "clean" coal will not promote energy independence. it will simply raise the cost of domestic coal.

[jasbcor]

Comparing "clean" coal to putting a man on the moon is completely pointless. They are entirely different engineering problems. This is what you get when you have the best government money can buy...*cough cough*