Sunflower Electric Power Corp. said months ago that it needed a go-ahead by June 1 if the Holcomb expansion was to be built. That urgency helped propel the passage of three bills during the legislative session, which brought three vetoes from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. But it turns out the deadline, credited to Sunflower president and chief executive officer Earl Watkins, wasn’t one. “The reason Earl used a June 1 date through the session is because there’s going to be a time that Tri-State and Golden Spread might say ‘We’ve got to do something else,’†Sunflower spokesman Steve Miller told Harris News Service, referring to project investors Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association of Colorado and Golden Spread Electric Cooperative of Texas. For now, the issue is a matter for the courts and a regulatory appeals process.
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Just maybe if they had a different name for the plant…
The Green Environmentally Friendly Power Plant…
The Friend of the Sky Power Plant…
The Soft Furry Bunny Power Plant…
Just saying…
What, the public was being lied to by Holcomb coal-fired power plant promoters? Surely not. Only the future of air quality and availability of cool, clean drinking water sources across the State of Kansas were at stake.
JWink…this is a state full of science deniers.
Haven’t you heard? Coal is clean fuel.
Also…………….smoking cigarettes is good for you and thalidomide is good for pregnant women!
Too bad about not getting the coal-fired power plants.
Hey, maybe we could get our legislature to campaign for a nuclear waste depository.
Lots of jobs, and it would take a hundred years to complete. We wouldn’t see it in our lifetime…we could leave it to our kids!
If this rain keeps up for another month – and should the Ogallah aquifer rise six inches (which I don’t think is likely for a deep aquifer), then the intertwined Sunflower/Tri-State/Western Fuel coal owners will have a new argument for the 2009 legislature. Mother Nature has solve the water problem! Not.
The price of coal doubled in the last yr., how’s the price of wind done over the same period ?
Also, the cost of shipping has greatly increased. I think Sunflower had better start adjusting their numbers!
“Lots of jobs, and it would take a hundred years to complete. We wouldn’t see it in our lifetime…we could leave it to our kids!”
Jesus WEPT nano, dont give them any ideas!
They might just take you up on it, since we’re not leaving our kids any WATER!
Maybe a lead smelter? Naaaaw. Hays’ economic development director already proposed that, and the citizens there pitched a fit and got the deal killed.
But… he’s gone, so ya never know. Hays will probably try to put a lead smelter in Trego county. I mean, since they are stealing all the water anyway….
How about being the designated landfill for Colorado and Oklahoma. Bound to be some job ops. there.
So.. if watkins, ahem, “misspoke” on the June 1 deadline, it kinds makes ya wonder what ELSE sunflower might be, ahem, “misspeaking” about?
Heh phantom, we dont have any “low spots” to fill in. It’s all just flat out here! They’d have to dig big holes. More jobs I guess. And ground water pollution.
But there’s always lead….
I think we need Emma Lazarus to do a kansas version.
“give me your tired, your poor, your dirty industries that cant find a home among smart people…”
“I lift my lamp beside the dumpster door”.
With a little recording of “beep beep beep” as the trucks back up so Mr. Peabody’s coal train can “haul it away”.
Sounds like you need some man made mountains!
Perhaps the coal plants can capture the 64% energy that they waste in heat in generating more power. Nah, I’m told efficiency is wasteful so it’s best to keep with the standard program.
Perhaps we can be like California. They have laws that forbid coal plants. They wont allow Nukes. They shut down Rancho Seco Nuke plant and turned it into a Photovoltaic version. The only thing, it now produces 0.1% of what it did. heh. Solar not quite up to heavy industrial tasks.
Now they need 54000 MW of NEW power. So they BUY it at high rates from outside the state… Think ENRON here folks.
And the other states are starting to grumble..guess what? They may start cutting them off it they don’t want to play in the dirt and build their own. Again think ENRON..only legal.
They are now losing business big time. Intel killed off a big new 3 BILLION dollar plant and built it in Arizona. Google refuses to build their big server farms there and move one to Washington to get hydro power. These Google server farms are 10 story buidings with 10’s of thousands of computers running 24/7 and need reliable power. Not the “brown” power of California that goes off and on and is reduced at times.
Looks like they want to turn California into a giant movie set and Taqueria taco shop as their only industries.
They seem to like that Service Industry and its 5 dollar wages rather than the Intel 50 dollar per hour jobs.
No ksfarmgirl…what we need is to get the Park Service folks to rip that silly Emma Lazarus plaque/poem off the Statue of Liberty.
We no longer need the worlds poor. We can make our own quite nicely now.
That was for a different time, different day.
Both McCain and/or the Dems are intent on importing the entire Central American continent here. The dems need more victims groups to develop new grievance theaters for.
mrbill,
So you like Rancho Seco’s low lifetime capacity average of only 39%? And the steam generator dry-out? Maybe you should have offered to buy it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station
“The plant operated from April 1975 to June 1989 but had a lifetime capacity average of only 39%; it was closed by public vote on 6 June 1989 (despite the fact that its operating license expiry was not until 11 October 2008) after multiple referendums and the promise of ten years of subsidized power from the Diablo Canyon power plant.
Steam generator dry-out
On 20 March 1978 a failure of power supply for the plant’s non-nuclear instrumentation system lead to steam generator dryout. (ref NRC LER 312/78-001). In an on-going study (ref NRC Commission Document SECY-05-0192 Attachment 2 [1]) of “precursors” that could lead to a nuclear disaster if additional failures were to have occurred, the NRC concluded (as of 24-Oct-2005) that this event at Rancho Seco was the third highest ranked occurrence (second highest if one omits the event at Three Mile Island).”
mrbill,
Sure, go ahead and have nukes but first change the law that requires taxpayers to pay for the insurance and let the nuke companies get their own private insurance. No insurance company in America will touch it.