If you have money, you can buy an ad… There is nothing wrong with that. And, you can say whatever you want on any issue ad, even if it is not true…. There may be something morally wrong with that, but it is certainly not illegal… It is protected under free speech….
So if I were to try to get a view across that benefits me, I would buy an ad that lies and says my way is a great way, and possibly demean others who had different views….
This ad begins by saying they will refute the lies told by people living in Newark, those neighbors of the new power plant who don’t want a one spewing carcinogens over top of their properties…
A clock starts and game show music begins to play….
Lie one… Power plants can safely be built in residential areas….
They cite Princeton New Jersey as having a power plant within its city…. As you can see, it is a 14.6 MW facility… Delaware will put in a 248 MW facility… What is the difference? I’ll show you. Imagine each X below represents 100 people getting cancer from carcinogens these plants put out through their smokestacks…….
Princeton New Jersey X
Newark Delaware XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
You tell me…. are they the same? (Being all male, the perpetrators of the TDC probably think size doesn’t matter. Every female knows differently.)
Lie two…. This efficient gas driven turbine power plant is safe because compared to coal, it has less pollution…..
The latter part is true. Gas does have fewer emissions than coal…. But the argument glosses over one very important factor which is visible by keeping he argument as is, but simply changing the topic…. As in: it’s ok for your daughter to sleep around with 4 different guys each week because prostitutes sleep with 28 guys or more every week…
What the hell kinda parent are you?
We are not talking about putting coal into Newark… We are talking about putting a gigantic gas fired turbine into Newark (see X’s above) … Coal is not even part of the equation… It is a distraction… What is at stake, is this:…. having nothing polluting our air RIGHT NOW…. versus to having a gigantic gas turbine spewing carcinogens 24/7 at full capacity for the next 75 years….
And if you remember…the EPA report showed that more people get cancer from gas turbines than coal fired ones… Really? Yes, really. Simply because gas turbines are located in high density areas, and no one…. lives right next to a coal fired power plant… Just like more trees fall on houses in cities, than they do in the middle of forests…..
No big deal? I would think not.
Lie Number 3…. The Sound is no louder than that of traffic..…
They play two clips…. That is actually true. Listen to those clips and think of that sound continuous 24/7…. while you are sitting in your pool. while you are entertaining guests, while you are catching a few zzzzz’s. or at 3:30 in the am when you can’t sleep…… I mean when chirping birds can wake you out of a deep slumber at 4:30 am, what do you think I-95 running down your street will sound like? I mean, have you ever stood on an overpass across a major highway? You have to shout to be heard…..
And this they say… is not a problem….
That is because they are some ad agency being paid a lot of money to try to influence people and have no incentive to tell the truth. They get paid more if the data center goes in…. and get little or nothing if it does not… They have a vested interest in making you think what they want… Not what is best for you….
The announcer then says time (60 secs.) is up and steers you to their website so they can track you and continue to send you more misinformation….. As with all ads, it is not what they say that is most of the problem… it is what they don’t say….
Their report on the level of carcinogens which they are required by law to do… shows that many carcinogens will rain down on Newark… if this plant goes through… Far, far, far more than are falling on Newark now…..
In Washington State, there is a chart showing cancer frequency rates among its towns… One town is off the charts… It has a similar sized gas turbine near its residential area….
75 years is an awfully long time…… Any other business other than a power plant, would give all the benefits… with none of the problems…. And the power plant could then be built in some rural area, with none of the problems this one will give here.
It is all about precision. When they say this power plant is good, they don’t say this power plant is good here… When other say this power plant is bad, they aren’t saying all power plants like this are bad….
It is just that campus of the University of Delaware, 200 yds from families’ houses in the town of Newark, is not the best place in the world to build a 248 MW gas fired CHP power plant….
That will never change, no matter how many ads get run on WDEL…….
kavips 
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June 12, 2014 at 9:18 am
a
Maybe the questions are these:
Why would a university want it’s tens of thousands of students and faculty walking to classes directly under the pollution fallout of a overly huge fossil fuel plant, (under the false pretence of necessity for a data center.)
And the larger agenda regarding greenhouse gases, why would a university choose to remain in deadly ‘DEnial’ and willfully participate, contrary to scientifically established proof of worst case, global climate change triggers.
Truthful information is available and known, everywhere.
Third question. Why are these deliberate, intentional participants ‘permitted’ to ignore, partake, share in the deadly profits of Delaware DEnial.
“Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon, and is comparable over 100 years…”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13053040
What is willfully blind, neglectful, mens rea, contributing to extinction of life on the planet?
Criminal negligence.
June 12, 2014 at 1:44 pm
a
http://blogs.law.widener.edu/climate/2013/02/16/a-video-why-polititicians-may-not-rely-on-thier-own-unimformed-opinion-on-climate-change-science/
June 13, 2014 at 11:26 am
John Kowalko
I’m sorry, should read deliberate lies and misrepresentations can be broadcast with impunity in a paid ad.
John Kowalko
June 13, 2014 at 3:08 pm
a
When denying is lying
What does lying about ‘clean’ energy have to have do with lying about a fossil fuel power plant?
What does lying about a fossil fuel power plant have to do with lying about climate change?
When one denies climate change, one is likely denying a greenhouse gas polluting power plant would contribute to it. They’re also denying science.
What would cause people to lie about what ‘clean’ energy is, what fossil fuel plants do, or the cause, the effects of reckless disregard for human health as well as the health of the sustainable ecosystem for all life?
That inconvenient truth; that cat you don’t want to let out of the bag.
One of the toughest problems that must be dealt with in reducing greenhouse gases, particularly CO2 and CH4, is that these gases are being added to the atmosphere at millions of locations, at varying amounts that are sometimes known, sometimes unknown. Every source must be dealt with. In order to get greenhouse gases under control (and we must) – decisions must be made based on scientific reality, not lies.
Lying about how necessary, how ‘clean’ an extra huge gas powered fossil fuel plant is, is a convenient lie; just as is lying about how ‘safe’ a plant’s toxic emissions are to human health. Deadly convenient.
What a Newark power plant would release over families, communities, over walking college youths, faculty and what would be released to the world, are matters every politician has a legal responsibility to speak of and make decisions based on – using the latest scientific facts. They must face the inconvenient truth.
Each politician involved in the project must ne sufficiently knowledgeable and honesty answer:
1) Why the extra huge 279 MW fossil fuel power plant that over contributes to CO2, CH4 greenhouse gases and climate change?
2) Why the accompanying huge amount of toxic smokestack releases directly over a university town?
3) Why not ‘actual’ clean energy, with gas line back up, as necessary?
The state, the country, the world needs leaders. The same old denying/lying polluting ways spells – mass extinction.
A huge toxic and greenhouse gas polluting power plant, towering, belching smokestacks to the sky, says Failure.
June 14, 2014 at 6:09 pm
kavips
Does anyone believe the lies anymore? I don’t know. But I think we have to keep the truth boiling on the front burner…. just in case. Because PT Barnum got one thing right: suckers are born every minute……..
June 15, 2014 at 9:28 am
a
“Better for Delaware’s air quality” says the feeding vulcher.
Better than what?
Better for whom?
Better than coal powered energy? Even compared against coal, the total greenhouse effects of drilling, fracking, off burning, on site releasing, piping leakage, other environmental damages, need to be added onto the smoke stack damages, when one talks about ‘air quality.’
Apparently, Mr. Fortsen conveniently isn’t comparing actual ‘clean’ zero emissions energy, such as wind or solar.
Fortsen said. “Also, emissions from on-site cogeneration are better for Delaware’s air quality than if TDC were to rely on power from the regional grid, he claimed.”
A devious, hot diversion:
Not mentioned building and operating an excessively large 279 MW fossil fuel plant that far exceeds the additional energy requirement to operate the data center. These are plans for a Star-ing fossil fuel plant, with an auxiliary data center.
It cannot be said without lying, that unnecessary, excessive CO2 production is “better for Delaware’s air quality.” or that all greenhouse gas emissions were considered in his comparison. After all, when one considers the ‘real’ problem, global warming and it’s continuing DEnial, the denial is local, the damages are planet wide.
One could honestly say, excessive solar or wind energy “is better for Delaware’s air,” because as we all know, wind and solar are truly ‘clean’ and produce “zero” releases of greenhouse gases as hazardous waste industrial by-product.
Yet Mr. Fortsen in effect is saying, more fossil fueled industrial by-products, are better for Delaware’s air, as if the planetary problem doesn’t exist.
That’s what denying/lying does. It causes a pollution problem as large as the planet, to be ‘conveniently’ ignored.
Above the huge hazardous waste footprint of former Chrysler abuses, like circling vulchers, there are those who want to use Delaware’s sky as the entry point for more industrial waste dumping, likely because local government, is proven to be industrial chemical dump site friendly – even in the face of abrupt runaway global warming caused by the same greedy, mindless excessive dumping of industrially caused CO2 and CH4.
Perhaps the need for secrecy, omissions and denial is, the chemical by-product of death is death, not better living. And if the truth be told, how then are the carbon men to profit from death?
Some honest inconvenient truths regarding excessive greenhouse gas pollution:
http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/07/seven-scary-facts-about-how-global-warming-is-scorching-the-united-states/