Fairbanks area power plants produce little air pollution

December 7, 2009

by Amanda Bohman – abohman@newsminer.com
FAIRBANKS — A study of emissions from the Fairbanks area’s three power plants finds the plants, the most visible polluters, are a minor player when it comes to Fairbanks’ pollution problems.
“They are a contributor, of course they are, but they are not the main one,” said Nicole Mölders, chairwoman of the [...]

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West Texas ‘clean coal’ plant gets $350 million federal grant

December 6, 2009

By JACK Z. SMITH  -  jzsmith@star-telegram.com
A proposed $1.7 billion “clean coal” plant to be built by Summit Power in West Texas has been awarded a $350 million federal grant, the U.S. Energy Department announced Friday.
The 400-megawatt plant would generate a net 245 megawatts of electricity to the power grid, enough to supply about 245,000 homes. [...]

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The ignorance behind anti-nuclear bias

December 5, 2009

By Philip I. Moynihan
The Los Angeles Times excels when it comments on social and political issues on its opinion pages. But when tackling technical issues, it often falls dramatically short. I am both frustrated and annoyed at the lack of knowledge of nuclear power that pervades this country, and the perpetuation of this ignorance by well-meaning [...]

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Study shows San Antonio’s power plants have little effect on public health

December 4, 2009

San Antonio Business Journal
An independent study conducted by the University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio showed that CPS Energy’s natural gas-fired and coal-fired power plant have minimal impact on the health of Bexar County residents.
This is welcomed news for CPS Energy as it is currently building a new coal-fired power plant next [...]

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Exelon closing two Pa. fossil-fuel plants

December 3, 2009

By Andrew Maykuth

In the latest sign of a fundamental market shift toward cleaner fuels, Exelon Corp. announced today that it would shut down two aging fossil-fuel power plants in Phoenixville and Eddystone in 2011, eliminating 280 jobs.
Exelon said that it would completely close the Cromby Generating Station along the Schuylkill in Phoenixville and that it [...]

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‘Progress’ to Shut Coal-Fired Plants

December 2, 2009

Editor comment: Obama sabotages future energy demand. Rolling blackouts may be part of America’s future.
By REBECCA SMITH
Bowing to rising environmental pressures, Progress Energy Inc. said it will shut 11 coal-fired power plants at four sites in North Carolina by 2017 and replace the capacity with gas-burning units.
The action is part of a trend in which [...]

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Indian Nuke plant: worker poisons colleagues

December 2, 2009

Rhys Blakely in Mumbai–The setting was humdrum: the office water cooler, scene of idle chat, gossip swapping and occasional jollity.
The authorities have described what happened there as an “act of mischief”. Yet such a description hardly does justice to an act of workplace revenge so devious and terrifying that it threatens the health not only [...]

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Kaiga nuke plant leak was inside job: Kakodkar

November 30, 2009

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Even as the Atomic Energy Commission confirmed that the contamination of drinking water at the Kaiga atomic plant in Karnataka was an “inside job”, the heavy water that was introduced into a water cooler has been traced to vials kept in labs within the complex. ( Watch Video )
The heavy water, used as [...]

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Cuban migrants land at Turkey Point, raising security questions

November 29, 2009

BY JOHN DORSCHNER AND ANDRES VIGLUCCI

More than 30 Cubans were dropped off close to the `heavily guarded’ Turkey Point nuclear power plant and remained undetected until they call for help hours later.
The illegals, dropped off by a smugglers’ speedboat, spent up to eight hours on the off-limits grounds of the Turkey Point nuclear power plant [...]

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Electric supplier pulls its plan for $4B power plant

November 28, 2009

By TOM HENRY
BLADE STAFF WRITER
The power-supply company AMP-Ohio said yesterday that it is pulling the plug on a massive coal-fired power plant it had planned to build in southeast Ohio for 81 member communities that invested in it, nearly a third of which are in northwest Ohio.
The communities include Bowling Green, Napoleon, Bryan, Clyde, [...]

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