Monthly Archives: June 2009
Wind Warrior
Ditlev Engel is staking the future of Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine maker, on America. Watch out for stormy politics. Continue reading
Analysis: Climate bill may spur energy revolution
Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead. Continue reading
NV Energy backs off coal-fired Ely Energy Center; Air Force objects to solar plant
Which is better: Fossil fuels or renewable energy?
The answer seems to be neither one, if you listen to a passel of politicians, environmentalists, military officials and power providers. Continue reading
How a bill became a deal: Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson’s ‘compromise’ with Sunflower Electric
When Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson inked a deal with Sunflower Electric Power Corporation CEO Earl Watkins to allow an 895 megawatt (MW) coal-fired plant to be built in Holcomb, Kansas, the shock reverberated throughout the state and beyond. Continue reading
EarthJustice and Sierra Club ask for Open Permitting Process for Coal Plant
EarthJustice and Sierra Club sent a letter to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment today requesting the public be given opportunity to comment on a new permit for an 895 MW coal-fired power plant Sunflower Electric seeks to construct in Western Kansas. Continue reading
EPA Withdraws New Mexico Coal Permit
Attorney General Gary King says the health and environment of New Mexico are the beneficiaries of today’s decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to effectively withdraw the permit for the proposed Desert Rock power plant in the four corners area. Continue reading
Coal No Answer
Kansas’ new governor has demonstrated his ignorance in cutting a deal allowing Sunflower Electric to build a coal-fired generating plant. Continue reading
Say No To Coal
Gov. Parkinson recently agreed to allow Sunflower Electric to build a huge new coal plant in western Kansas. The governor and Sunflower Electric executives crafted the agreement in a matter of days without public input. Continue reading
The Heat Is On When It Comes to Building Coal-Fired Power Plants
HOLCOMB, Kans.—Kyle Nelson points upward to show off the six-story-high main boiler of Holcomb Station. The 370-megawatt coal-fired power plant sits on the rolling prairie of southwestern Kansas just a few miles from the small town of Holcomb, population 2,100, roughly 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of the Colorado border. Enormous metal pipes crisscross far overhead in a facility where the temperature is a little too hot to ignore, and the machinery’s din is deafening. Continue reading
Coal-fired plant a blot on Kansas
Now that we have had time to peruse the details of the coal-plant “compromise” deal signed by Gov. Parkinson, it is patently apparent that Sunflower Electric and the coal industry comes out smelling like a rose and Kansas gets to withstand the stink of an unnecessary coal plant. Continue reading
