Alabama Power closes coal-fired plant, cites Obama-era regulations
The Alabama Public Service Commission blamed Obama-era regulations and emissions mandates for the closing of a historic coal-fired power plant in Walker County on Wednesday.
“In 2008, candidate Obama declared war on coal and promised to bankrupt anyone who built a coal-fired electricity plant,” the PSC said. “President Obama immediately went to work signing one after another punitive, burdensome federal mandates on the coal industry. Now, his promise has come to fruition at Plant Gorgas in Parish, Alabama.”
The PSC said the “astronomical rising cost to comply with Obama era mandates,” has left Alabama Power with no choice but to close Plant Gorgas.
“The company has taken every possible step to keep the plant up and running, but the war on coal finally took its toll,” said Public Service Commission President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh. “Obama said he wanted to make it too expensive to run coal-fired plants, and he did. I commend President (Donald) Trump for rolling back as many of the Obama mandates as he could. The problem for us here in Alabama was that Obama placed the biggest bullseye on us, and Trump’s valiant effort at finally implementing common sense came along a little too late.”
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