## EPA HEARING - JULY 29, 2014
MY NAME IS DAVID MARTIN JUSTICE. I AM A NATIVE OF COLORADO, BORN AND RAISED IN WHEATRIDGE, ABOUT 5 MILES STRAIGHT WEST OF THIS HEARING ROOM. I ATTENDED CU DENVER, 7 BLOCKS EAST OF HERE, GRADUATING IN AUGUST, 1970. ON APRIL 20, 1970, THE FIRST EARTH DAY WAS PUT TOGETHER BY THE STUDENTS AT UCD AND IT WAS HELD IN THE THEN BRAND NEW CURRIGAN HALL, ABOUT NINE BLOCKS EAST OF HERE. IT WAS TORN DOWN TO BUILD THE CONVENTION CENTER SEVERAL YEARS AGO. OUR EARTH DAY WAS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY, PERHAPS BECAUSE WE INVITED SENATOR GAYLORD NELSON TO BE THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER. HE IS, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF THE EPA". SO, MY INTEREST IN THE ENVIRONMENT GOES BACK A LONG WAY. FOR MANY

YEARS, I WAS PRETTY AMBIVILANT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
MY INTEREST IN THE ENVIRONMENT WAS RENEWED BY THE MOVIE "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH" IN 2006. SINCE THAT TIME, I HAVE LOOKED FOR WAYS TO LESSEN MANKIND'S CARBON FOOTPRINT.
I HAVE LIVED IN COLORADO SPRINGS SINCE FEBRUARY 1973. THE MARTIN DRAKE POWER PLANT, THAT SITS AT THE CROSSROADS GATEWAY TO COLORADO SPRINGS, ABOUT A MILE FROM WHERE I LIVE, CAUGHT FIRE AND WAS CLOSED FOR REPAIRS IN APRIL, OF THIS YEAR. THIS CAUGHT MY INTEREST AND I WONDERED IF THE THREE STEAM TURBINES AND GENERATORS COULD BE MOVED TO THE NIXON POWER PLANT SOUTH OF TOWN AND COMBINED WITH A NATURAL GAS POWERED GAS TURBINE AND GENERATOR, THAT COULD PRODUCE CONSIDERABLY MORE POWER AND CONTRIBUTE CONSIDERABLY LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. THE OLD POWER PLANT COULD BE TORN DOWN AND THE AREA REDEVELOPED.
THIS IS A CONFIGURATION KNOWN AS A COMBINED-CYCLE POWER PLANT OR A CCPP. THIS IS WHERE A GAS TURBINE IS POWERED BY BURNING NATURAL GAS AND THE EXAUST HEAT WOULD THEN HEAT WATER INTO STEAM AND POWER ONE TO THREE OF THE STEAM TURBINES. THIS COULD BE DONE WITH MANY STEAM TURBINE POWER PLANTS WHERE THERE IS ABUNDENT NATURAL GAS. WHERE THERE IS ABUNDENT COAL, EXISTING COAL-FIRED STEAM TURBINE PLANTS COULD BE CONVERTED TO AN INTIGRATED GASIFICATION COMBINED-CYCLE PLANT OR AN IGCCP. THIS IS WHERE THE COAL IS TURNED INTO SYNGAS TO POWER THE GAS TURBINE AND THE EXAUST HEAT USED TO HEAT WATER TO POWER THE STEAM TURBINES.
OR A GASIFICATION PLANT COULD BE LOCATED NEAR THE COAL MINES AND SYNGAS COULD BE SHIPPED BY PIPELINE.
A WATER-GAS SHIFT REACTOR COULD BE ADDED TO EITHER OF THE GENERATING SYSTEMS TO PRODUCE HYDROGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE. SEPARATED, THE HYDROGEN WOULD BECOME THE FUEL TO POWER THE GAS TURBINE, WITH WATER VAPOR AS THEEXAUST GAS AND THE CO2 WOULD BE SEQUESTERED, LIQUIFIED AND USED AS AN EFFICIENT WATERLESS FRACKING FLUID.
THE LATTER TWO COAL- RELATED SYSTEMS ARE BASICALLY WHAT "CLEAN COAL" IS ABOUT. AS A WESTERNER, I AM ACUTELY AWARE OF HOW SCARCE AND PRECIOUS WATER IS AND I AM APPALED THAT A MILLION GALLONS OF WATER FOR EACH WELL BECOMES SO POLUTTED BY HYDROFRACKING THAT IT CAN NEVER BE TREATED ENOUGH TO EVER BE USED FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN HYDROFRACKING AND MUCH OF IT IS INJECTED IN TO DEEP WELLS, WHICH ARE SUSPECTED OF CAUSING EARTH QUAKES. IF CARBON DIOXIDE CAN BE SEQUESTERED, LIQUIFIED AND USED AS A FRACKING FLUID, IT CAN BE SEPARATED OUT AND USED AGAIN.
ALL OF THESE SCHEMES ARE EXPENSIVE AND I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD HELP BY PAYING HALF OF THE COSTS.
CLIMATE CHANGE OR GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING AND IF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING SERIOUS, NOW, IT WILL BE TOO LATE. I DID A SIGN THAT MAY BE A LITTLE HYPERBOLE THAT I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH: THE CLIMATE DENYERS AND CARBON PERVEYERS HAVE DOOMED THE WORLD TO HELL AND HIGH WATER. THANK YOU.