Tag Archives: Sunflower
Richard Crowson Political Cartoon on the Sunflower Plant
A new political cartoon about the coal plant permit from renowned Kansan Richard Crowson: Continue reading
Long-Delayed Sunflower Power Plant Gets OK to Build
By Karen Dillon of the Kansas City Star After being blocked for four years, a western Kansas utility finally won state permission Thursday to construct an 895-megawatt coal-fired power plant. The go-ahead permit was a huge victory for Sunflower Electric … Continue reading
Kansas Allows Controversial Coal-Fired Power Plant
Today, in the absence of those strong leaders, Sunflower Electric Co. finally got state permission to build its pollution producer. Under a new administrator, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment granted the permit after department workers spent nights and weekends processing the permit, presumably so they could beat a deadline that would have forced the new plant to meet stringent pollution standards kicking in Jan. 2. Continue reading
EPA Leader Pledges Fair Decision on Power Plant
EPA has not yet been party to the Sunflower controversy. That’s as it should be. Our U.S. Constitution shares federal and state responsibility to protect our nation’s air resource. Our keystone Clean Air Act assigns Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) initial responsibility to decide if Sunflower’s pollutants will damage Kansans’ health too much. But EPA will soon have to make some important legal decisions. And recent developments in Topeka and Washington, D.C., warrant a brief explanation of this agency’s duties if the Sunflower controversy hits my desk. Continue reading
Helplessness Fuels Kansas Anger Over EPA
Several committee members briefly broached the idea of mounting a legal challenge to the EPA, like one Texas is pursuing. But the idea makes utilities in Kansas nervous because it creates the possibility that the EPA eventually could step in and cut Kansas out of the process of issuing air-quality permit. Continue reading
GPACE Presents at Green Drinks KC
Join us for an informative and timely presentation from GPACE’s Scott Allegrucci regarding the proposed Sunflower coal plant. KDHE is about to open another round of public comment on the proposal due to erroneous data supplied by Sunflower Electric. Continue reading
EPA: Sunflower must start coal plant permitting process over
The utility behind a controversial coal plant project in Western Kansas must reapply for a new state permit, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. Continue reading
EPA Likely to Send Kansas’ Sunflower Coal Plant Back to the Drawing Board
A decision is imminent from the EPA on what Sunflower needs to do to secure a permit to finally build its power plant, and the expected verdict is stark: start over. Continue reading
GPACE Comments and Questions To Tri-State Generation & Transmission
Tri-State is the large, Colorado-based utility that will own almost all of the proposed Sunflower Electric Holcomb coal plant, and the electricity produced by it. In response to an RFP for baseload power by Tri-State Sunflower abandoned its already-permitted Sand Sage project. As of December 2009, Tri-State had provided direct payments to Sunflower of over $51 million. Continue reading →