Other issue: Marcellus gas drilling.
I'm available Wed at 6:30. There is a SC member in the
northern panhandle who has asked how she can help.
Let me know time and date.
I like wind, new energy, CCS, and fly
ash.
Wind and new energy is my top pick.
Kevin
Fooce
fooce@hotmail.com
304-593-2875
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul
2009 14:05:42 -0400
> From: jkotcon@wvu.edu
> To:
ec@osenergy.org
> CC: fyoung@mountain.net
> Subject: [EC] Energy
Committee Conference Call
>
> I have come to recognize that it is
time to get several issues organized for the Chapter Energy Committee.
>
> How is everyone's schedule for a conference call this week? I propose
6:30 PM, Wednesday evening, but am pretty flexible all week except Tuesday and
Thursday night.
>
> I propose that we identify major issues, and
assign subcommittees of 2-3 people to take the lead on each. That way, no one is
working alone, but no one has to do the homework to become the expert on every
issue, and 2-3 people is small enough that things can actually get done with a
phone call or two. So look over the list of issues and volunteer for the one or
two you will be able to commit to.
>
> Here are some items to
consider:
>
> 1) New Energy Committee members. (Jim Kotcon, Jim
Sconyers?)
>
> 2) Wind Farms. Several new proposals are before the
PSC. I have asked Frank Young to monitor these, but it needs 1-2 more
people.
>
> 3) Coal-To-Liquids (TransGas Development, LLC in Mingo
County). The Club's Environmental Law Program in San Francisco is monitoring
this one closely, and will likely want us to intervene. Bill Price has contacts
with citizens in Mingo County, but we need 1-2 more volunteers.
>
>
4) Carbon Capture and Sequestration (Mason County) Also a CCS Working Group at
WV-DEP is preparing rules for CCS facilities, so we should be monitoring
both.
>
> 5) Fly Ash impoundments. Jim Sconyers and I drafted
comments on the Kammer facility, and new federal and state rules are
needed.
>
> 6) PATH. This is our big one. Bill DePaulo, Jim Kotcon,
and at least 2-3 others are needed. I suggest we do one subcommittee on "local
organizing", one on "fund raising", and one on "technical experts/legal
strategy". Barbara Fallon is doing fundraising on this, and 1-2 more people are
needed to make stuff happen on that.
>
> 7) Cap and Trade. This
federal legislation is the main driver for everything we do, and so far, that
anti-cap and trade folks have had all the demonstrations and media attention. We
need 2-3 people who will follow up on the bill, lobby Rockefeller and Byrd, and
organize local media events in support of whatever we are in support of. The
Sierra Club's position is that we support Cap and Trade, but the House bill
needs major strengthening. (Note: WVEC has taken the position that the House
bill is hopelessly weak and complex, and they support a carbon tax as a quicker,
simpler alternative. I don't see it happening, unless the Waxman bill dies.) I
got a call from Associated Press Friday, asking for a response from someone in
favor of it, because no one except the opponents is saying anything. We are
almost invisible in West Virginia.
>
> 8) Longview Mitigation Fund.
Bill Depaulo, Jim Sconyers and Jim Kotcon. This will take some effort this
summer and fall, but it looks like it is a "Go".
>
> Dos anyone
else have other issues that the Energy Committee should be dealing with over the
next year?
>
> Jim Kotcon
> 304-293-8822 (office)
>
304-594-3322 (home)
>
> P.S. Jonathon, could you add Frank Young to
the EC List-serve? Then send me a current list of who is on this List-serve
Thanks. JBK
>
>
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