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 THE 
EXAUST 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.