Thank you, Duane, for finding this, and putting it in the proper perspective.
Does someone want to take a hand at writing a comment letter on behalf of the Chapter Energy Committee? I would be happy to help, and this would be a good one to learn the procedures.
JBK
>>> <Duane330(a)aol.com> 12/16/2008 11:02 PM >>>
Activity:
Injection of sulfuric acid upstream of Outlet 004 in order to ensure
compliance
with permit effluent limitations. Tier 1 protection is afforded for the
uses
specified in 47 CSR 2, Section 6.
NOW I KNOW HOW TO AVOID POLLUTING A STREAM, INJECT SULFURIC
ACID INTO THE EFFLUENT.
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Yess!!!! We needed one more thing to do.
Word is that this one may be mostly science fiction. Anyone know anything about these things?
JBK
>>> "cindyrank" <clrank(a)hughes.net> 12/16/2008 4:23 PM >>>
The underground injection (UIC) permit application for carbon sequestration by AEP in Mason County
To operate and maintain underground injection (UIC) permit to inject carbon
dioxide through injection wells into the subsurface located in Mason County.
cindy
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> STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
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> PUBLIC NOTICE
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> WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION'S, PUBLIC INFORMATION
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> APPLICATION FOR A CLASS 5 UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL PERMIT
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> The following has applied for a Class 5 Underground Injection Control Permit
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> Facility:
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Link to Dec. 9th Scientific American article on clean coal. Spread it
around. cheers, paul
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-dirty-side-of-clean-coal
--
Paul Wilson
Sierra Club
504 Jefferson Ave
Charles Town, WV 25414-1130
Phone: 304-725-4360
Cell: 304-279-6975
"There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha
fyi, somewhat dated (2003) but good article on grid and grid management.
best,paul
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Wilson <pjgrunt(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: What's Wrong With the Grid Article
To: Keryn Newman <keryn(a)frontiernet.net>
Thanks, Keryn: I got it just fine. There is a link to a PDF version of the
article at the top of the page. I will send the link to others in WV Sierra
Club.. See you tonight. paul
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Keryn Newman <keryn(a)frontiernet.net>wrote:
> Here's the link to the article
>
> http://www.tipmagazine.com/tip/INPHFA/vol-9/iss-5/p8.html
>
--
Paul Wilson
Sierra Club
504 Jefferson Ave
Charles Town, WV 25414-1130
Phone: 304-725-4360
Cell: 304-279-6975
"There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha
--
Paul Wilson
Sierra Club
504 Jefferson Ave
Charles Town, WV 25414-1130
Phone: 304-725-4360
Cell: 304-279-6975
"There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha
>From the Club's State Government Programs list serve.
JBK
>>> jeff tittel <jeff.tittel(a)SierraClub.org> 12/12/2008 12:25 PM >>>
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Barack Obama has reportedly
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/10/163358/09> tapped Lisa Jackson
to be his new EPA head. Jackson was previously working in New Jersey as
commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection. There, she
earned raves from Governor Jon Corzine, who recently
<http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/09/corzine-lisa-jackson-remarkabl
e/> told ThinkProgress, "I think Lisa has done a remarkable job of trying to
move the environmental agenda forward within a constrained world." (Most
notably, New Jersey has been trying to enact a plan to reduce greenhouse-gas
emissions 80 percent by 2050.)
But not everyone shares that assessment. In a widely
circulated and remarkably scathing press release
<http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1136> , The Public Employees
for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a non-profit group that works with
whistleblowers inside various government agencies, absolutely blasted the
Jackson pick. In a letter to Obama, PEER executive director Jeff Ruch
claimed that Jackson took a "highly politicized approach to decision-making"
in New Jersey that resembled Bush's tenure at the EPA, was cozy with
lobbyists, and actually had a woeful record on climate change. Read the full
press release <http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1136> here; it's
pretty brutal.
So is PEER correct? Is Lisa Jackson a poor environmental pick? I'm not
convinced. On balance, her record really does look quite green.
Earlier this afternoon, I called Jeff Tittel, who directs the Sierra Club's
New Jersey chapter and has worked closely with Jackson on a number of
environmental initiatives over the years. He quickly dubbed PEER's press
release "total crap" and criticized PEER for having little on-the-ground
presence in New Jersey. In Tittel's view, any blame for New Jersey's mixed
environmental record should rest squarely on the shoulders of, ironically,
Corzine himself, whom Tittel called "the worst environmental governor we've
ever had." Lisa Jackson, he argues, was the biggest (maybe the only) bright
spot in New Jersey.
Among other things, PEER's press release had excoriated Jackson for
appointing a lobbyist from the New Jersey Builders Association to be her
assistant commissioner, overseeing water quality and land-use permits.
Tittel rejects this criticism, noting that Corzine basically gave Jackson
two choices to fill the spot: either the New Jersey Builders Association
person-who, Tittel notes, actually wrote policy papers for NJBA, not
lobbying, and had previously worked in the state's environmental
agency-or... a lobbyist from the Chemical Council. Jackson made the greener
pick.
Indeed, Tittel argues that Jackson has frequently battled hard against both
Corzine and New Jersey's business community on a number of contentious
issues, from protecting 300,000 acres of environmentally sensitive lands
from sewer permitting to forcing the governor to revise the notorious
"Permits Extension Act," which would've extended building permits into
environmentally sensitive areas. (That bill was such a galling giveaway that
even Bush's EPA protested.) Although Tittel agrees that the final bill was
still horrendous, he credits Jackson for standing up to her boss and taking
out "75 percent of what was bad in that law." Likewise, on climate change,
where New Jersey has been relatively sluggish in meeting its targets, Tittel
puts most of the blame on Corzine, and credits Jackson with getting a
renewable-electricity standard in place.
When I mentioned this pushback to PEER's Jeff Ruch, he wasn't impressed.
"That's shaky," he says, arguing that you can't separate Jackson from
Corzine so cleanly. "She was going to go work as his chief of staff [before
getting tapped by Obama]." What's more, Ruch adds, "One of Jackson's big
outgoing actions was to convene an industry-dominated task force that
recommended rewriting the rules for building permits." But Tittel fires back
at this, too: "Look, I was on that task force," he sighs. "They haven't even
read the report." Tittel says that this much-maligned task force was
Jackson's way of, again, curtailing Corzine's pro-builder tendencies and
bringing the Department of Environmental Protection back into the permitting
process-giving the agency more authority to conduct environmental impact
assessments, for starters.
New Jersey is a state that's long been dominated by developers and
real-estate interests, both of which have a tight grip on the Corzine
administration. Last year, Corzine slashed the state's environmental budget,
declaring that Jackson's agency would have to "do less with less." Jackson,
for her part, appears to have fought back fiercely. Now, you could argue
that that's setting expectations too low. ("This is like saying someone who
did a good economic job in Bangladesh should go be head of the World Bank,"
says Ruch. "She's coming from an agency where there's a lot of unhappiness,
and going to a bigger camp [i.e., the EPA] with even more unhappy campers.")
But Jackson's green instincts do seem strong. Among other things, Tittel
points out that Jackson hails from New Orlean's Ninth Ward, and her mother
was badly injured in Katrina. "If you want someone who understands the
effects of climate change firsthand," he says, "that's her."
--Bradford Plumer
Excerpt below from Rockefeller's remarks to the WV "Energy Summit" (actually coal summit) yesterday.
This is very scary news - fox overseeing henhouse - since Jay has become one of the most active and vocal coal proponents (didn't want to use the w word here...).
"And I think there may be an
announcement – maybe even as soon as this week -- that I will be
elected by my colleagues to chair the Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee. That committee deals explicitly with climate
change and with the technology and research needed to achieve energy
security."
Complete text at
http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=305559&
Jim Sconyers
jim_scon(a)yahoo.com
603.969.6712
Remember: Mother Nature bats last.
I just saw an actual advertisement on the t.v. from the reality
coalition debunking the clean coal myth, this is also shown on their
website at http://action.thisisreality.org/ . Good to see some big
bucks are going into a serious media campaign.
Here is the Sierra Clubs Dec. 4 press release:
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=81141.0
I am interested in what people think about this particular ad, do you
think it conveys its message effectively?
-Jonathan
Have you seen this cool ad?
Jim Sconyers
jim_scon(a)yahoo.com
603.969.6712
Remember: Mother Nature bats last.
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Jacob Sconyers <chaosjake(a)yahoo.com>
To: dad <jim_scon(a)yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:47:19 AM
Subject: clean coal
I've been seeing this commercial on TV a lot this week, thought you might get a kick out of it:
http://www.thisisreality.org/#/?p=facility
If the link doesn't work try youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdHuB7Ovl2o