Kentucky's Latest Proof That Satire is Dead

Oh, this should be a hoot.

At 8:30 a.m. eastern on Monday, be sure to call 800-704-9804, code 82558442#, to get in on the teleconference of the latest meeting of the ... wait for it ...

Kentucky Climate Action Council.

No, seriously.

KENTUCKY CLIMATE ACTION PLAN COUNCIL TO MEET

Public encouraged to attend

FRANKFORT, Ky. (Oct. 14, 2010) – The Kentucky Climate Action Plan Council will hold a full-day meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m., Monday, Oct. 18, at the Department for Environmental Protection in Frankfort, Ky.

WHAT: Kentucky Climate Action Plan Council
WHEN: Monday, Oct. 18, 2010; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Department for Environmental Protection
Large Conference Room 301D
300 Fair Oaks Drive
Frankfort, Ky.

Members of the public may attend in person or by teleconference. The call-in phone number is 800-704-9804 and the conference code is 82558442#.

Background materials for this meeting may be viewed at www.kyclimatechange.us.

Once upon a time, Kentucky had a Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, which had responsibility for regulating the coal industry, and an Energy Cabinet, which had responsibility for promoting the coal industry. NREP may not have been the most zealous regulator on the planet, but at least it was not constantly compromised by a competing internal priority.

Now we have an "Energy and Environmental Protection Cabinet" which states right up front, in the name, what is its first priority.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Approval of KCAPC Meeting No. 4 Summary
3. Purpose and Goals for KCAPC Meeting No. 5
4. Status and Next Steps of the KCAPC Process
5. Review and Approval of Elements of Policy Option Documents from the Technical Work Groups and Presentation of Initial Quantification Results for Selected Options
6. Review of the TWG Specific Common Assumptions Memos for Quantification of the Policy Options
7. Next Steps for KCAPC and Technical Work Groups
8. Agenda, Time, and Date for Next Meeting
9. Public Input
10. Announcements
11. Adjourn

Note the "public input" has been scheduled at the end of the day, when everybody is paralyzed by boredom and dying to leave.

Please, somebody, suggest that the best thing Kentucky could do in the way of Climate Action is to outlaw the coal industry. Be sure to record the response. Just for shits and giggles.

For those cynics who have any sense of irony at all, it's going to be fucking hysterical.