2008.07.31
Discuss Thursday's letters and columns
Wise plant adds to life cycle
Pete Sarjeant
Sarjeant is retired from Westvaco and moved recently to Bedford.
The Southern Environmental Law Center (whomever this may be) is appealing and trying to obstruct the state board's permits for the Dominion VA Power plant in Wise County by citing a failure to meet Clean Air Act requirements, namely providing for means to capture the carbon dioxide pollution.
With banks, it's a matter of trust
Peter Morici
Morici is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Business and former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Once again, we have good news and bad from Wall Street.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has announced Citigroup and three other banks will begin issuing covered bonds in an effort to rejuvenate commercial bank mortgage lending and the housing market.
Making do on less
Linda Whitlock
Whitlock, a Roanoke Times columnist, is an adjunct English professor who lives in Salem.
When one of my uncles developed emphysema after smoking for most of his life, he didn't sue the cigarette manufacturers. He didn't blame them either. Whatever the tobacco companies had or hadn't done, my uncle knew he was the one responsible for his smoking and for the disease that would ultimately kill him.
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Well said Pete! You hit the nail right on the head. I too am very tired of these knee-jerk reaction 'environmental groups' that pop up from nowhere to protest and file lawsuits with little or no real science to back up their claims. The whole 'global warming' hoax grows very tiring. Thanks for offering some real facts instead of the usual emotion driven cliches.
Comment by Nick — July 31, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
I hope Pete's insight isn't clouded by breathing the air at the Westvaco Plant, or within a thirty mile radius of same.
I'm not positive, but I think I saw a very hungry looking Polar Bear on a small chunk of ice, floating down the Potomac last week.
Comment by Blue John — July 31, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
BJ- That polar bear was floating on the same piece of styrofoam that they used in Al Gores movie.
Comment by Nick — July 31, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
Nick,
So you saw the bear too. Gotta love styrofoam, one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Whew, for a minute I thought I might have had a flashback!
Comment by Blue John — July 31, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Ha Ha! Where's Pete Sarjeant been living? Oh -- West Virginia. Now I understand.
Comment by Kay — August 1, 2008 @ 8:24 am