AEC chooses renewables and efficiency over coal 2

New across the transom, from Sierra Club (no link yet):

Today, Associated Electric Cooperative, one of the nation's largest and most respected rural electric cooperatives announced they are "postponing indefinitely" their plans to build a massive new coal-fired power plant near Norborne in Northwest Missouri. Associated Electric will pursue wind, energy efficiency and natural gas instead.

Sweet.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. Tim Hurst's avatar

    Tim Hurst Posted 3:59 pm
    03 Mar 2008

    Yes, that IS sweetWill the reverberations from this be felt in the ongoing Holcomb battle in Topeka? How can Kansas be smack dab in the middle of the country, yet seem so isolated?

    Tim Hurst



    ecopolitology.org

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  2. PJD Posted 4:28 am
    04 Mar 2008

    Emissions PermitsIn the ongoing debate over how to allocate emissions permits, I certainly would support the notion that any coal power plant that hadn't received it's construction permits prior to Dec 11, 1997 (Kyoto agreement) should not be allocated any free permits... or at least only permits equaling what an efficient gas combined cycle would have required.
    Any company, cooperative or municipal utility deciding to build coal plants after it was obvious caps would happen should have to sleep in the bed they made.

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