Global Warming Zealots Kill a Small Texas Town

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Yes, global warming zealotry kills.

It doesn't kill private planes or spacious mansions for the likes of Al Gore and Brad Pitt.
It kills dreams and a decent life for small town Americans, who don't have those luxuries and are struggling to survive...

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Debate over climate costs Texas town
3.28.07
By John Ritter, USA TODAY

COLORADO CITY, Texas - This old railroad town has seen its fortunes rise and fall more than once in the boom-bust cycles of the oil industry and cotton farming. But nobody here ever thought prosperity would ride on the global warming debate.
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This county seat of 4,100 was primed for an economic windfall from a coal-fired power plant that utility company TXU Corp. planned to build. After two New York investment firms bought TXU, the new owners agreed last month to scrap the proposed 858-megawatt plant here and seven others across Texas.
Environmentalists who brokered that deal were elated because plants that burn coal to make electricity release carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.
In Colorado City and surrounding Mitchell County, "there were lots of long faces," Mayor Jim Baum says. "The plant would have been our salvation, even more so than the discovery of oil."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-27-coal-town_N.htm

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