February 25, 2010
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Energy & Renewables Newsletter February 25, 2010 |
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CO2 capture and storage gains a growing foothold
On a placid bend of the Ohio River in West Virginia sit two coal-fired power plants. The Philip Sporn Plant boasts four boilers from the 1950s, surrounded by mountains of coal and a series of man-made lakes to contain the toxic residue of its coal-burning. A faint haze emanates from its main smokestack, the only visible sign of the thousands of tons of acid-rain-forming sulfur dioxide, smog-forming nitrogen oxides, and climate-warming carbon dioxide it emits each day, a consequence of the plant`s complete lack of pollution-control technologies. The 1,100 megawatts of electricity it produces will ... |
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BC continues the renewable energy momentum
British Columbia is aggressive in its determination to remain a global leader in clean and renewable energy. This is not surprising, given that a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study predicts that BC`s independent power sector could inject $26.1 billion into the provincial economy by 2020. Determined to capitalize on this potential, the BC government recently established a Green Energy Advisory Task Force and a new Cabinet Committee on Climate Action and Clean Energy. According to the government, the creation of the task force and the committee will help the province maximize its opportunities ... |
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