Another coal plant application denied. This one was stiffed because of a law Washington passed this year requiring that coal plant proposals include plans for carbon sequestration or, if that's not possible, plans to purchase offsets in a commensurate amount. But you gotta start with the sequestration plan, and the application from Energy Northwest didn't have one. Said the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC):
"The principal flaw in the (Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan) is its failure to present a plan to achieve geological sequestration. It does not detail specific actions (Energy Northwest) will take ... (Energy Northwest's) GGRP fails to meet the plain language of the statute -- it is a plan to prepare a plan at some indefinite later date."
One can't help but speculate that the reason Energy Northwest didn't include a CCS plan is that it didn't want something on paper demonstrating to its investors that its capital costs were going to be enormous and the power produced well above market rates. Remember, coal: cheap or clean, but never both.
Copenhagen, U.S.A. December 7
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Tasermons Partner Posted 12:05 pm
27 Nov 2007
It doesn't outlaw construction of coal plants, per say, but it pretty much will prevent any construction for several years at least.
Quite a ingenious strategy, to say the least.
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Delay And Deny Posted 3:36 pm
27 Nov 2007
Washington could go under Kyoto simply by approving this coal plant.
They could replace the plant in Centralia, that is responsible for 60% of all CO2 in our state.
It's simple, it's new and it's clean and it does the job.
The only people who don't get a slice of the pie are the Rejectors who can't make things more complicated they they need to be.
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JMG Posted 11:20 pm
27 Nov 2007
Consumers Energy seeks tax break for coal-fired power plant
by: Eartha Jane Melzer
Tuesday (11/27) at 09:11 AM
Consumers Energy, Michigan's largest power company, is seeking tax abatement for an 800 megawatt coal-fired power plant planned for its Karn-Weadock Generating Complex in Bay County's Hampton Township.
The company said that the new plant is expected to add at least 80 new employees to the 370 person workforce at the generating complex.
The Bay City Times, reports that the township is prepared to offer the company a 50 per cent tax break on new construction for 12 years -- the maximum tax break allowable by law. A spokesman for the township said that tax abatements are a standard economic development tool.
The company plans to begin construction on the project sometime after 2010.
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TheGreenMiles Posted 3:19 am
28 Nov 2007
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