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----- Rob Bradley@ENRON 03/23/2001 09:22 AM To: Miyung Buster/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Subject: "Green Coal" power plant planned for Washington State Please distribute March 23, 2001, 12:00 a.m. Pacific 'Green' coal plant is planned by Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times staff reporter Washington's first new coal-fired power plant in 30 years is being planned for Cherry Point in Whatcom County. The plant is proposed to generate 249 megawatts of power and could be up and running within 36 months, said John O'Brien of U.S. Electric Power of Point Lookout, N.Y. The plant's size falls just below the requirement for review by the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council. The facility must still meet all requirements of the federal Clean Air Act as well as state air-pollution controls. Coal is considered the dirtiest of major fuels for power generation, emitting more carbon dioxide and gases that lead to smog than natural gas. But coal plants vary widely in the amount of emissions they produce, depending on the quality of the coal, the technology used to burn it and the environmental standards. O'Brien said the plant will burn only ultralow-sulfur coal and use stack scrubbers and other technology to make the coal plant at least as clean as a natural-gas-fired plant. "We are going to employ the best technology, and we will spend the money to make sure it happens. If there is anything dirty about it, we will not build it." The company is also examining ways to partially offset carbon-dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - through reforestation of land in northwestern Washington, O'Brien said. "On CO2, we will do our best, and we will do better than anyone else, and more than any of the gas-fired folks," he said. O'Brien says he knows the plant will be controversial despite his planned "Green Coal" public-relations campaign beginning May 1. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/got oArticle?zsection_id=268466359&text_only=0&slug=coal23m&document_id=1342765 28 Gregory Rehmke Foundation for Economic Education (914) 591-7230 x213; Cell: (914) 760-5638 www.freespeaker.org
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