[EC] Fwd: Opinion Article by Manchin

Attached is the Weekly column from Gov. Manchin for Dec. 7, 2007. We really need to call him on the hypocrisy, because as he is callling for "Clean Coal", the WV Development Office last month provided over $60 million in bonding for dirty old ratholes like Longview and Western Greenbrier.

Is his call for "Clean Coal" simply a smokescreen to keep just building more coal plants, no matter what? (DUH!) Can more expensive Clean Coal plants compete if they have to compete with subsidized old dirty technologies? Will the inductry see any incentive to build with better technologies if the State not only permits, but subsidizes old dirty technology?

If you want to see where someones' priorities truly lie, "Follow the Money!"

JBK