Laura Miller Gets Reasonable

And gets paid for it. Here’s the Texas Observer story on her new role as “Texas projects director” — that is, chief lobbyist — for Summit Power Group, Inc., which wants to build a coal plant in Texas. Key quote:

A year after Miller lambasted TXU’s outdated technology and told the company that “carbon dioxide is a huge, huge issue for us,” Summit hired the ex-mayor to promote a proposed coal-gasification plant that will sequester at most 60 percent of its CO2 emissions. Asked about coal-gasification technologies that target 90 percent of CO2 emissions, Miller told the Observer, “You can’t capture more than 60 percent and have it be [economically] viable.”

4 comments

  1. Typical!!! She never did what she said she would do anyway!!

    @ 12:11 pm on June 17, 2008
  2. She will use the rest of the CO2 to fill our potholes. Too bad CO2 doesn’t work as good as concrete or asphalt…

    @ 2:26 pm on June 17, 2008
  3. Laura Miller’s journey to the Dark Side is now complete.

    @ 3:16 pm on June 17, 2008
  4. Great article… and don’t forget the benefits that planting a tree will have on the environment. Each one will soak up 20kgs of CO2 every year and put enough Oxygen back in the atmosphere to support 2 people.

    @ 11:17 am on June 29, 2008