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July 6th, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
In Mississippi Southern Company has invested more than $6.4 billion into the Kemper coal plant – a facility that is “two years behind schedule… and still not operational”.
This experiment in clean coal is a disaster and the plant isn’t even online. According to a report based on “thousands of pages of public records, previously undisclosed documents and emails” provided by Brett Wingo, a self-described whistleblower, the Kemper plant is a problem waiting to be exposed.
In addition, Wingo provided “200 hours of… recorded conversations” as well as interviews with “30 current or former regulators, contractors, consultants, and engineers” who were part of the construction of the plant.
Called the “ Solyndra of clean coal”, Kemper is an environmentalist’s nightmare. The project was begun before the design was completed. With only 15% of the plans to go on, construction of the first facility to use lignite , a cheap source of fuel.
Converting coal to gas has proven more than difficult, and for a great deal of time for that matter. To distinguish between the different gases released by fossil fuel extractions, petroleum fields refer to “natural gas”; whereas “town gas” is produced by coal.
The Kemper project was hailed as the first step toward a low-carbon energy future. However because of shoddy constructions, poor planning, and minimal oversight the Mississippi taxpayers are going to paying for this disaster for quite some time.
For example, in theory carbon capture and storage (CCS) is easy, but as Kemper proved, it is quite tricky because “CCS can come in many varieties”. And while there are 15 projects in operation now that deal with CCS, the congruency of this method is inept.
Another costly problem is Southern has invested in making CCS work with regard to coal which is completely unnecessary because of other energy capturing technologies such as wind, solar and hydro. And while CCS might work for coal in the future, it is expensive now and not worth the trouble.
Besides, an estimated 20% of carbon dioxide emissions come from facilities that produce steel, iron, and cement, just to name a few. This ensures that low-carbon emissions could be a pipe-dream.
In response to the expose on their coal plant, Southern Company issued a statement : “Rather than educate readers on the worldwide benefits of this cutting-edge first-of-its-kind facility, the New York Time’s article on the Kemper project provides a negative recap of previously disclosed developments that have already been addressed.”
Southern asserted that this report on the Kemper facility was a cheap attempt to “deliver a pre-conceived narrative” and of neglecting to “mention key facts communicated to the reports that would clearly illustrated the company’s commitment to completing the project the right way for the benefit of customers.”
As part of the chicanery, Southern is being sued by Treetop Midstream Services (TMS) over the construction of a $100 million pipeline that TMS said they were coerced into paying for and building.
TMS was to purchase the CO2 captured by the Mississippi Power Co’s coal power facility; however in the complaint, Southern is accused of “intentionally misrepresenting and concealing the start date for the facility and forcing Treetop to unnecessarily spend nearly $100 million on a pipeline and other equipment, the Southern Co. defendants have now left Treetop with a pipeline to nowhere that never would have been built but for the fraudulent conduct of the Southern Co. defendants.”
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