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As Mr. Brandon has indicated, not all the particulars are known, so sweeping generalizations based on insufficient facts (even - or perhaps especially - if supplied by an accountant) may not predict the future very well.
I realize that your accountant is undoubtedly in charge of helping you prepare for the worst possible scenario; after all, it's not for nothing that economics (and by association accounting) is called the Dismal Science. However, similar stuff has happened in the...
Mr Defor makes an interesting contradiction to his own argument: "Too green" is a simplistic identification of why energy is more expensive. Other factors include increased global demand, (slightly) better understanding of the cost of not getting stuff correct in the first place - e.g.: BP oil spill, size of the population that is using energy, etc.
It really isn't "cheaper" to foist the problems of developing energy off on other sectors of the economy or on future generations. It...
Mr. Defor, I think you've made my point: if the only way to develop energy cheaply is to push environmental costs onto future generations or to the government, the costs are understated & the price one pays to an oil or gas company/utility is not representative of the real cost.
BTW - the projects you've cited, especialy Keystone, is not stopped dead, but proceeding more slowly. AND some of the outputs of coal are real killers, period. Black lung disease is not just a figment...