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leanin' H

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SALT LAKE CITY -- One of Utah's biggest energy projects is dead, and it appears to be largely because of concerns and uncertainties about global warming. Utility planners have aborted their effort to build a third-generating unit at the Intermountain Power Plant near Delta.

The slow death of IPP Unit 3 has been apparent for quite awhile. But until now, there hasn't been a formal declaration of death for the $2 billion project.

It has big implications for Utah's coal industry and for our energy future. The existing Intermountain Power Plant sends nearly all its electricity to California. Utah's municipal utilities wanted to add a third unit--another 900 megawatts--but that required Los Angeles to be on board, and they backed out because of California's aggressive stance against global warming.

Douglas Hunter, with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, said, "The city took the position that if they had the ability to stop any coal plants from being built, they were going to do it."

Supporters of IPP expansion battled Los Angeles in the courts, but now they've quietly settled the lawsuit and abandoned the project. The unknown costs of new greenhouse gas regulations made the project too uncertain.

"With the lawsuit, we decided just to finish up and settle and get our money back that we spent on studying it and look at other things," Hunter said.

Those other things include renewable energy like wind power. It's a change of direction from coal that environmentalists have been pushing for.

Joro Walker, with Western Resource Advocates, said, "Already, we're seeing that across that state, and this will change the focus from dirty, polluting sources of energy, high in green house gas emissions, to alternative energy."

The death of the coal project reflects a national policy shift that could affect other proposals in Utah.

Hunter explained, "I don't see anything in the near future. I don't see any large conventional, what we call pulverized coal plants, being planned or built in the near future."

"When you truly examine the costs of greenhouse gas emissions and the benefits of advancing technology, and cleaning up the air, cleaning up the environment, yes, it's good for our economy," Walker said.

Hunter argues the project would have helped keep utility costs down. But in the face of regulatory uncertainty, he says abandoning it was the right thing to do.


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So unemployment is over 10%, the economy continues to drop, we depend on damn dictators for oil and our energy independence is so low it's silly but we won't build power plants! Perfect liberal sense! Those are sorely needed high paying jobs at the mine, transporting the coal to the plant and at the plant! As a newly UNEMPLOYED guy in a rural area this is totally assinine! Please defend this logic.........
 

leanin' H

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Officials say a power outage is causing traffic jams across the west side of Los Angeles and leaving people trapped in elevators.

Fire Department spokesman Lauren deRosier said a transformer blew up at a Department of Water and Power facility at about 7:47 p.m. Wednesday.

He says that firefighters have responded to 13 reports of people trapped in elevators within 30 minutes. Meanwhile, police say traffic lights are out, snarling traffic across Brentwood, Westwood and other neighborhoods in the area.

It's not immediately clear how many people are without power. DWP officials have not returned calls seeking information.


I just found this! I reckon you'd call this KARMA!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Shut all their dang power off! Just once i'd like to see the enviromentalist's loose thier jobs, livelyhoods, traditions and places where they live! Let them try it and see if it might OPEN SOME EYES! I doubt it! In fact lets return the entire state of California to it's natural state. ZERO PEOPLE! Everyone out for the sake of animals and the enviroment! Cept BBuckaroo cause he's one of us! :D
 
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Maybe you need a progressive Governor and state government- and marketing plan... :wink: :p

This came to mind because I was talking to a couple of railroaders today that had looked at the possibility of transferring to run the coal train line between Billings- and Roundup-- but they said the absence of housing and price of housing was so high with all the people moving into both Billings and Roundup for the mine work- that they had decided to forget it for now...And these guys both had top 6 figure jobs...

Signal Peak Mine south of Roundup nears completion
LINDA HALSTEAD-ACHARYA Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:00 am


According to the laws of physics, energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

But sometimes it takes energy to tap energy. And that's why the developers of Signal Peak Mine south of Roundup are - fast and furiously - pouring resources into the state's largest current construction project.

At 3,000 tons per day, miners are sending a steady stream of coal out of the mine's portal. The flow is currently being directed to a temporary stockpile. But by summer, the black heap will begin to shrink as the first of Signal Peak's product is shipped off to power plants in Ohio.

"We measure it in tons, but we really sell energy," said Michael Placha, vice president of Signal Peak Mine and the related Global Rail. "When it gets to the power station, they look at the BTUs."

A visit to the burgeoning mine site south of Roundup reveals a landscape under rapid transformation.

In the shadow of six mega-cranes hoisting materials from point A to point B, trucks and heavy equipment rumble through the mine's network of surface roads. Deliveries from around the globe are staged strategically at a dozen or so active construction sites.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_194ddb51-de3d-59f6-b758-b939ec7d5fe4.html

Musselshell County aided with coal growth
LORNA THACKERAY Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:00 am |

While Musselshell County is hiring and buying thanks to nearly $1.75 million in Coal Board grants, the city of Roundup came home empty-handed and wondering how to finance improvements needed to encourage housing development.

"We feel good about what the Coal Board did for us," County Commissioner Larry Kilby said. "We notified the implement dealers and our ad for two new county road employees will be in the paper (Roundup Record) next week."

Sheriff Woody Weitzeil already is advertising for a new deputy and seeking bids on two new patrol cars.

"This is going to help us out a lot. We're always shorthanded," the sheriff said. "Man, it's been going 100 miles an hour. We're just going from one crime to another. We hardly get the chance to patrol anymore."

It isn't workers at the new Signal Peak Coal Mine driving up the crime rate, he said. But a lot of people have moved into town lately, and it's more than the seven officers on staff can handle.

In all, Musselshell County walked away with the lion's share of $2.7 million in grants distributed June 12 by Montana's Coal Board. Roundup school also won approval of a $100,000 request for purchase and renovation of property that may be used for school expansion and $17,274 for planning capital improvements.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_fc01735b-0fed-57d8-8bd1-53bbaa50435d.html
 

leanin' H

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Maybe you ought'a try being unemployed! Maybe you ought'a come out here and explain your liberal agenda to coal miners and power plant guys who might lose thier homes! Maybe you ought'a wake up and realize THEY ARE COMING FOR YOUR COAL TOO! You can't think they greenies will be happy that you Montana-ites are mining and shipping coal! THEY WANT TO STOP ALL COAL! And YOUR guy in the whitehouse is helping them do it! Pardon me for laughing in your face when it happens up there!
 

Faster horses

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Shawn Hannity told the world right before the election what Obama was going to do to the coal industry. I could not believe the coal producing
states that voted for him anyway. All of 'em, except Wyoming. Of
course, the msm never picked it up, so if you didn't hear it on
talk radio, you didn't hear it.

This country has so much in the way of natural resources and the
greenies are just letting it sit there--or burn up. Makes me sick.
 
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