Green Leadership from Gov. Sebelius
From the wind swept plains of Kansas, Governor Sebelius fights against the building of two new coal-fired power plants while strongly advocating the use of wind power to provide Kansas with clean renewable energy.
State Senate Bill 148 was set to allow the building of two plants by Sunflower Electric that would have produced about 11 million tons of CO2 annually. The Kansas legislators in favor of the bill pushed the idea that the project would bring jobs and low-cost energy to the region. Governor Sebelius vetoed the bill and the legislators brought it back but failed the post enough votes to override the veto.
After the rise and fall of corn based Ethanol as the “savior” of the global ecosystem, a movement that affected the Kansas farmers greatly, groups like “The Alliance for Sound Energy Policy” are now steering the people of Kansas into the pit of cheap energy at the cost of their health and the environment. Governor Sebelius is promoting wind as an obvious alternative power source, capitalizing on the abundance of wind available throughout the Great Plains region.
In today’s world, the people who we elect to represent us in State Government need to understand that the jobs on the line here are theirs, if they fail to lead in these issues.
