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Thursday, 04/17/2008 |
WHEN it comes to building the power plants that generate the
electricity Americans need, the Not In My Back Yard crowd is now
screaming Not in Anybody's Back Yard.
A coalition of anti-coal groups contends it has scored 65 victories
over coal in the past three years, reported Judy Pasternak of the Los
Angeles Times.
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Thursday, 04/17/2008 |
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Coal-fired power plants provide half of this country's electricity.
Half. Considering coal is by far our cheapest fossil fuel, imagine how
expensive -- and unreliable -- electrical power would be if every
coal-fired plant in the United States were shut down and use of the
resource were banned.
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Thursday, 04/17/2008 |
Allegheny Energy has agreed to reroute part of the $1.3 billion power
line proposed for northern West Virginia in a deal that eliminates
major opposition from state Public Service Commission staff.
But the settlement, announced late Tuesday, does not include several
citizen groups and many residents who are working against the project.
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Thursday, 04/17/2008 |
The President and Chief Operating Officer of Appalachian Power says
they'll ask the Virginia State Corporation Commission to look again at
the company's proposal for a $2.23 billion clean coal power plant in
West Virginia.
On Monday, Virginia's Commission denied Appalachian Power's request to
build the plant in Mason County. "We'll provide some more detail to
address their concerns," Dana Waldo says of the appeal. "We put on, I
think, a very powerful case about the IGCC (Integrated Gasification
Combined Cycle) technology, the need for the power plant and the need
to use coal."
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Friday, 04/11/2008 |
The full year's schedule of the Legislature's Monthly Interim Committee
Meetings has been set. All the meetings will occur in Charleston with
the exception of September, which will be held in Bridgeport. The
dates are: May 18-20; June 22-24; July 27-29; August 24-26; September
7-9 (Bridgeport); October 12-14; November 16-18; December 7-9; January
11-13, 2009; and, February 8-10, 2009. Interims will meet in February
since the Regular Session begins 30 days later than usual to allow time
for the Governor's Inauguration and preparation of the
State-of-the-State Address.
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