Typically, “you’re fired” is a line you’d expect to hear from Trump — not from the environmentalist left. What’s worse is when they laugh about it.
To wit, the Richmond Times-Dispatch interviews the anti-energy folks over at the Southern Environmental Law Center — if it makes you think of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), then you know why they named it that way — over the decision by Dominion Energy to finally wind down nine units from five older coal-fired plants this year:
The number of affected employees, while not immediately clear, should be far less than 390, Koonce and Anderson said. More than 100 vacancies won’t be filled, and some employees could move to jobs in other divisions of Dominion.
What should gall readers is the tone deaf happy dance at the announcement of job losses from the environmentalist set, comments that simply could not be ignored. From Will Cleveland with the SELC:
“From a carbon perspective, that’s a great win,” he said.
Great win, you say? For the folks who won’t have a paycheck to take home to their families from a “carbon perspective” that’s precisely the sort of heartless, cold and unfeeling tone the progressive left seems to heap upon any blue collar worker simply trying to make a living.
Five plants in total will be effected, including Bremo Power Plant in Fluvanna County, Virginia — long an economic mainstay for working families in Fluvanna and Buckingham Counties.
The four other plants in Chesterfield, Bellemeade, Possum Point, and Mecklenburg will all be put into what is known as a “cold reserve” — meaning that in an emergency they could be put back into service, but given the low amount of power they contribute to the grid, highly unlikely that they will ever see service again.
Environmentalists might be slapping one another’s backs over craft beer and brie cheese, but for those who have to take the tough news back home to their families? The SELC spiking the football over their pink slips is contemptuous at best.
…from a “carbon perspective” — naturally.
