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Big Coal Gets Wired: With A Little Help From Its Friends
The plan to build new power lines from Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia to the Washington DC area looks like a good way to increase the carbon "footprint" of East Coast city dwellers. According to testimony at a a formal public hearing, it was learned that an agency of the US Federal government encouraged construction of power transmission lines across state lines without examination of distributed power options closer to the customer base. And, of course, it is pure coincidence that the lines will be fed by coal fired power plants.First you blow up the mountain tops and then you cross forested lowlands with transmission lines. No wait.
Source: TreeHugger