Coal under fire: Colorado's No. 2 electric provider, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, faces pressure to reassess its reliance on coal--now 76 percent of total output.
ColoradoBiz › Vol. 35 Nbr. 3, March 2008
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Coal under fire: Colorado's No. 2 electric provider, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, faces pressure to reassess its reliance on coal--now 76 percent of total output.
Last fall, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association had to face an inconvenient truth: Its proposed coal-fired power plant was sacrificed in the name of environmentalism.
The directors of Colorado's second largest electrical provider were stunned when they got the news, one of them confides. Never before had a coal-fired power plant in the United States been rejected because of its emissions of a greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. Tri-State directors believed environmental rules had changed mid-game, well after Tri-State's partner, Kansas-based Sunflower Electric, had filed for permission to build two power plants along the banks of the Arkansas River near Holcomb, Kan. That the news had shown up first, and prominently so, in The Washington Post seemed telling. One Tri-State executive theorized that the veto--which has been appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court--was politically motivated, without a strong platform in legislated public policy. Environmental activists applauded the decision by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. A "huge gust of fresh air," decla...See the full content of this document
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