Jason Hayes, ACC Communications Director has been invited by the editors of a new news and social content website -- www.opposingviews.com -- to join the discussion on important energy issues we are facing today. He was asked to debate two questions, 1) Should the US Build More Coal-Fired Power Plants? and 2) Is Nuclear Power America's Best Energy Alternative?
Indian utility, Spice Energy has inked a 20-year agreement with PT Tambang Batubara (an Indonesian coal mining company) to supply their proposed 1,000 MW coal-fueled generation plant with 6 million metric tonnes annually beginning in 2011.
Kentucky Miner's Protest
Kentucky Miner's Protest
As many as 2,000 Kentucky miners rallied at the state capital yesterday to protest a bill aimed at stopping a mining technique known as "mountaintop removal." If passed, thousands of miners could be put out of work and the economic well-being of the area could be severely impacted.
This WKYT.com report provides a short description and video of the miner's actions.
Kudos to the miners for standing up for their way of lives and for defending the mining industry's proactive actions to reclaim mine sites as wel as its provision of thousands of jobs and economic stability to the area.
It's always time to stand up behind the men and women who help keep the American coal mining industry running.
Good for you!!
The NMA has posted information to their website on the recently released Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee report on the Crandall Canyon Mine.
A bid by a Foundation Coal affiliate was accepted by the BLM for a coal block adjacent to the western boundary of the Eagle Butte Mine in Wyoming. The new lease is for "255 million minable tons of +8400 BTU coal on approximately 1400 acres of federal land."
Read the rest of the Foundation Coal news release here.
This CNN Money article describes Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy's plans to build coal gasification plants in the Wyoming area, adjacent to the massive Power River Basin coal reserves.
Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE:BTU) , the world's largest private coal company, announced Friday it has joined with a Massachusetts firm to develop multiple coal-to-natural gas plants in Wyoming's Powder River Basin that would produce cleaner-burning fuel and less pollution.
The basin, which straddles the Montana-Wyoming border, produces about 40 percent of the country's coal, primarily for electricity generation.
St. Louis-based Peabody and GreatPoint Energy of Cambridge, Mass., said they are in the early stages of jointly developing 'gasification' plants that would convert some of that coal into synthetic natural gas. ...
A coal-to-gas plant near one of the basin's mines could tap into the region's extensive pipeline network and transport the fuel offsite at minimal expense.
