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Would 583,000 wind turbines power this nation?
by frank young via EC 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

This comes from the American Wind Energy Association- the equivalent of the National Coal Association. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "In terms of land use, those 583,000 turbines would take up about the total land mass of Rhode Island, Hensley says, because wind projects typically require 0.74 acres of land per megawatt produced." http://www.businessinsider.com/wind-turbines-to-power-earth-2016-9

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Fw: [lawpa] When someone tells you, “The climate is always changing,” show them this cartoon
by James Kotcon via EC 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

I had not seen this one before. The smoothed temperature data does tend to obscure annual variation, but it makes the point. JBK ________________________________ From: S. Tom Bond <stombond(a)lhfwv.com> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 8:06 AM To: Tom berlin; Laurie Ardison; Diana Gooding; Mirijana Beream; Tina Del Prete; Linda Ervolina; oldseaman(a)frontier.com; Ruthie Lamb; Stephen Miller MD; Susan Boulden; Mark Bloomenstein; Diana Olsen; Roseanna Sacco; Jon Mclaughten; Joseph Chasnoff; Nancy Dickenson; Maury Johnson; Paula Mann; Dale Mccutcheon; Richard; Robin Wright; Ann Rogeres; John W. Cobb; Autrumn Long; Barbara Volk; Bill Hale; William R. Suan; Bonnie Joyce; Charles Lollar; Cindy Rank; David Sturm; Diane Pitcock; Diane Pitcock; Elsie Keaton; Emma Malcomb; Greg Mach; Heidi Chapman; JIm Mcallister; Judy Brady; Kathryn Robertson; Keely Kernan; Kevin Campbell; Mariylin Schiffet; Marian Kanour; Michael Barrick; Myra Hale; Nancy Bevins; Richard Shingles; Rick Webb; Shanda King; Tim HIggens; Tracy Vaughn; oldseaman(a)frontier.com; oldseaman(a)frontier.com; Tina Bager; Isak Howell; Kirk Bowers; pamelart(a)hughes.net; Judy Azulay; Bill; Ellen Darden; Conni Lewis; Christina Woods; James Kotcon; Jody Subject: Fwd: [lawpa] When someone tells you, “The climate is always changing,” show them this cartoon -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [lawpa] When someone tells you, “The climate is always changing,” show them this cartoon Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:26:09 -0400 From: dsborowiec via LAWPA <lawpa(a)googlegroups.com><mailto:lawpa@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: dsborowiec(a)aol.com<mailto:dsborowiec@aol.com> To: lawpa(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:lawpa@googlegroups.com> Thanks Elizabeth PLEASE FORWARD! When someone tells you, “The climate is always changing,” show them this cartoon<http://grist.org/science/when-someone-tells-you-the-climate-is-always-chang…> <http://grist.org/science/when-someone-tells-you-the-climate-is-always-chang…> When someone tells you, “The climate is always changing,” show them this ca... File away under: Things To Show Climate Denying Relatives on Thanksgiving. [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/earth_temperature_timeline.png] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "LAWPA" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lawpa+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:lawpa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to lawpa(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:lawpa@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/lawpa/157400ce61a-4e94-3979%40webprd-m57.…> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/lawpa/157400ce61a-4e94-3979%40webprd-m57.…. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Sept. 24 - Citizen Science Gathering in Morgantown
by Jonathan Rosenbaum via EC 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

The following was sent to you because you are a Member of the DEP News List mailing list. ============================================================ Wednesday, September 14, 2016 @ 2:11 PM ============================================================ Sept. 14, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Reminder: Registrations Still Being Accepted for Sept. 24 Citizen Science Gathering MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – It’s not too late to sign up to attend the Sept. 24 Citizen Science Gathering in Morgantown. Registrations for the event will be taken through Sunday, Sept. 18. The event was organized by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Environmental Advocate’s Office, in conjunction with West Virginia University, Trout Unlimited, and several other groups. The gathering will be at the WVU College of Law from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will include presentations and roundtable discussions about the applications of citizen science. Citizen science, or “citsci,” involves the collection of environmental data by concerned citizens. This data can sometimes be used to shape environmental policy, but often there is confusion on the part of the citizens about best practices for collection and presentation of that data. The purpose of this gathering is to help eliminate some of that confusion. Renowned coal mine safety expert Davitt McAteer will speak on the legal applications of citizen science, and there will be presentations from WVU’s Michael McCawley, Gretchen Gehrke of PublicLab.org, and Ryan Grode of the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project. The registration fee is $20. To sign up, or to obtain more information, email Diana Smith atdiana.k.smith(a)wv.gov by the end of the day on the 18th. You can also leave a phone message for Diana at 304-926-0499, ext. 1329. For more DEP news and information, go towww.dep.wv.gov. Also, be sure to connect with the agency on all social media platforms. Follow @DEPWV on Twitter and find us on YouTube by searching “Environment Matters.” For specific information about our REAP (Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan), West Virginia Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), West Virginia Watershed Improvement Branch, Youth Environmental Program and Human Resources initiatives, connect on Facebook. ###

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McKinley, Manchin Moniz discuss energy innovation, Sept. 12
by James Kotcon via EC 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Article from the Wheeling paper on the visit to Morgantown of US Energy Secretary Moniz. They are worried because 80 % of US coal generation is form plants that are at least 30 years old, and by 2030, they will be really old. Speakers suggest coal companies will need to build their own plants to keep utilities from switching to gas. http://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2016/09/mckinley-manchin… JBK

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FirstEnergy Wants Customers to Pay Them $568 Million per year to Keep Its Headquarters in Ohio
by James Kotcon via EC 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Does anyone else think that FE is a money-grubbing bunch of losers? Or are they just desperate? See story below. JBK FirstEnergy Corp., Ohio's homegrown utility with roots in the state that date to 1930, wants its customers to pay to ensure it stays there. In the latest twist in a two-year battle for aid, the company has asked regulators to approve as much as $568 million a year for eight years in customer surcharges to compensate for the economic impact of having its headquarters in Akron. FirstEnergy is among utilities across the U.S. struggling amid flat demand and low power prices bought on by cheap natural gas, and growing supplies of solar and wind energy. That hasn't swayed manufacturers, consumer advocates and environmental groups who said they were left flabbergasted by the proposed hike. "When they first told me that was in there, I thought it was a joke," said Eric Burkland, the president of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association, which opposes the fee increase. "From a manufacturing ratepayer's perspective, it's just bizarre." See full story at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-29/firstenergy-says-its-head…

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Fwd: [GW-ACT-LEADERS] Sierra Club position on carbon fee and dividend proposal to put a price on carbon?
by James Kotcon via EC 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

This is from a thread on the Sierra Club's FRED list that asks whether we support a carbon tax. Ned Ford is one of the most informed experts on energy that I know in the Club. Below he discusses why a carbon tax proposals are a disruption and will not happen fast enough. Enjoy. JBK ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ned Ford <Ned.Ford(a)fuse.net> Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [GW-ACT-LEADERS] Sierra Club position on carbon fee and dividend proposal to put a price on carbon? To: CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS(a)lists.sierraclub.org I have spent many years trying to explain why carbon taxes are not going to be a big part of the picture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxryv2XrnqM is about disruptive technology and it disrupts my own thinking even though I have been following most of the trends he speaks about for many years. In short we don't need carbon taxes because the technologies are producing the price differential more effectively than a tax could. That flies in the face of the often-repeated claim that carbon taxes are more efficient or better than other strategies. What those people usually mean is that carbon taxes are better than command and control. We haven't used command and control for the major pollutants for several decades, so it's a false premise. What carbon tax advocates neglect is the huge differential between the effect of a price on carbon on coal, and the same price's impact on petroleum or natural gas. We seriously could use a natural gas or petroleum tax. But it would have to be absurdly large as a tax on carbon, compared to the price needed to end coal. About ten times larger. It would be easy enough to separate the fuels and have different tax rates, but the discussion never gets that far. The fact of the matter is that carbon reductions are happening because efficiency and wind and solar are cheaper. The more we use those three technologies to address coal and natural gas generation, the lower the prices and the faster the process. We are at a point today where an EV costs a third or less than a gasoline car to drive any distance, and the price differential will get greater. So we need a lot more clean electricity than the nation is presently expecting to need, if just replacing the current fuel mix (including the nuclear plants that can't run forever) is the target. About 40% more total electricity by 2040. If you view the link above you will understand how narrowly I'm talking about the coming changes. Disruptive energy changes affect everything we do. But the most important thing we can do is to concentrate on direct state level activism to remove obstructionists from the path of efficiency, wind and solar. Utility scale solar must come before distributed solar, even though in ten years we may see the order of priorities change to solar, wind and efficiency. If that happens, as Mr. Seba says, it won't be purely economic. Or at least it won't be purely economic as we think about it because people will be factoring in their convenience as a "cost" where no dollars are involved. This means we probably won't ever become truly efficient. But at the same time, efficiency in some form is driving every single one of the technological disruptions he identifies and many more that he doesn't. I hope the Sierra Club ignores carbon taxes. Even if the Republicans are demolished in ten weeks we can use the opportunity far better to remove barriers to efficiency and to speed development of cost-effective wind and solar than to spend another decade trying to get a tax package into position that really works. - Ned On 8/22/2016 12:44 PM, Carolyn Amparan wrote: Hello, Does anyone know the Sierra Club's position on the Citizen Climate's Lobby carbon fee and dividend proposal? If so, what is the status on the specific proposal and a price on carbon in general? I found there was a resolution considered in 2013 but have not found anything more current on the national website. Thanks, Carolyn * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe from the CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS list, send any message to CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS-signoff-request(a)lists.sierraclub.org <CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS-signoff-request@lists.sierraclub.org?subject=Unsubscribe%20from%20CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS&body=SIGNOFF%20CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS>, or visit Listserv online <http://LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?SUBED1=CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAI…>. For Listserv basics, technical tips, and commnity guidelines, check out our General FAQ <http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq>. 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Re: [EC] Arcadia Power, 18 months in
by Yarnell, Karen 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

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Court backs Obama’s climate change accounting
by James Kotcon 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

This is an obscure but incredibly important court victory, supporting DOE calculations of a "Social Cost of Carbon". JBK "...In a unanimous decision<http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2016/…> late Monday, the Chicago-based 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected an industry-backed request to overturn a 2014 rule that set energy efficiency standards for commercial refrigerators. In doing so, the court specifically backed the so-called social cost of carbon, President Obama’s administration-wide estimate of the costs per metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere — currently $36...." Full story at: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/290859-court-backs-obamas-clim…

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This is what I call a "Happy Problem"
by James Kotcon 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Here is the rebuttal to those who claim renewable energy is too unreliable and too expensive and will never provide a significant share of our electricity. JBK >>>>> Texas is expecting 21,000 MW of wind-generated electricity, and their transmission grid is only built to handle 18,500. To put that in context, a typical coal plant handles 600 MW. That might mean that turbines will have to rest idle at times. This isn't the first time or place for this to happen. The UK has also struggled with the challenge of surplus power<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/uk-will-have-too-much-electricit…>, and energy surpluses in Chile-which have resulted in straight-up <http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21228/chile-solar-energy-surplu…> free power<http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21228/chile-solar-energy-surplu…>-are starting to have negative effects on the energy industry. It's not the worst problem to have, but it's still a problem. Full story at: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a22228/texas-is-d… [http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/32/1024x512/landscape-1470674049-gettyimages-…]<http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a22228/texas-is-d…> Texas Is Drowning in Wind Energy<http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a22228/texas-is-d…> www.popularmechanics.com Yes, you can have too much of a good thing.

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FirstEnergy loses $1.1B, may sell Pleasants plant to MonPower
by James Kotcon 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

This is a fairly lengthy article, but the last sentence of the excerpt below says it all. Translation: "Screw the rate payer!" Full story at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-business/20160805/firstenergy-loses-11b-m… After announcing a quarterly loss of $1.1 billion<https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1031296/000103129616000101/ex991fe-…> because of the future closures of two uncompetitive coal-fired power plants in Ohio, FirstEnergy says it will seek to "de-risk" by pushing plants onto electricity customers in states like West Virginia. Charles Jones, CEO of FirstEnergy, the parent company of MonPower and Potomac Edison, announced in an earnings call <https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3005292-First-Energy-Earnings-Call-…> on July 29 that the coal-heavy utility would seek to remove itself completely from the competitive energy business and, in the meantime, would try to offload plants to regulated markets, where the company is guaranteed a profit. "Longer-term, we do not believe competitive generation is a good fit for FirstEnergy and we are focused on regulated operations," Jones said. "We cannot put investors and our company at risk." Jim Kotcon

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