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Should Stimulus Funds be spent on Mountain Top Removal?

by: Clem Guttata

Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 14:21:21 PM EDT

by Clem Guttata

American Electric Power thinks so. They have asked the Federal government for stimulus funds to help them buy the additional coal they need to burn once they start carbon capture and storage (CCS) in September at Mountainer Power Plant in New Haven, W.Va.

Unless AEP pledges to buy coal only from companies who mine underground, those Federal stimulus dollars will be going to perpetuate mountain top removal.

Clem Guttata :: Should Stimulus Funds be spent on Mountain Top Removal?

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Should Stimulus Funds be spent on Mountain Top Removal? | 1 comments

No way, say it ain't so..... (0.00 / 0)

CCS is a boondoggle at best, and a monumental disaster at it's worse. Very expensive therefore coal ain't cheap any longer.....

by: JBdem4usa @ Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 01:55:07 AM UTC

Should Stimulus Funds be spent on Mountain Top Removal? | 1 comments

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