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Proposal addresses pollution at Navajo coal plant
AP via Fuel Fix ^ | July 26, 2013 | Felicia Fonseca

Posted on 07/26/2013 5:22:21 AM PDT by thackney

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants haze-causing nitrogen oxide emissions reduced by 84 percent at a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation, but a group meeting over the past few months on the proposal says it can do better.

An alternative plan to be submitted Friday to the EPA would shut down one of three 750-megawatt units at the Navajo Generating Station near Page by 2020, cutting pollution beyond what the EPA has proposed. The plant’s operator, Salt River Project, said the plan takes into account potential ownership changes and pushes back the implementation of expensive pollution controls.

It also sets a firm deadline for shutting down the largest coal-fired power plant in the West by 2044, unless the Navajo Nation opts to run it itself....

The EPA’s proposal gives the power plant’s owners 10 years to install technology that would improve visibility at places like the Grand Canyon. The alternative proposal brought forth by SRP, tribal and federal officials, environmental groups, and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, would give the power plant’s owners an additional five years to make decisions on major investments in pollution controls.

(Excerpt) Read more at fuelfix.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coal; energy
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1 posted on 07/26/2013 5:22:21 AM PDT by thackney
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2 posted on 07/26/2013 5:24:56 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

EPA speaks with forked tongue....get the flaming arrows out.


3 posted on 07/26/2013 5:25:18 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Mouton

They should tell the EPA that the emissions are a culturally appropriate means of communication.


4 posted on 07/26/2013 5:29:40 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: thackney

Oh come on...I have seen a single F-4 put out more of a skidmark in the sky than that.


5 posted on 07/26/2013 5:30:09 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: thackney

If they are going to shut down a plant over that little dab of pollution, then they ought to shut down LA immediately.


6 posted on 07/26/2013 5:33:53 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Smokin' Joe

They already have hot-side electrostatic precipitators and SO2 scrubbers. Then the added low-NOx SOFA burners. EPA still isn’t happy and wants them to add Selective Catalytic Reduction.


7 posted on 07/26/2013 5:37:27 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: McGavin999

What you see is only water vapor. The NOx is not visible.


8 posted on 07/26/2013 5:38:03 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
Standards should be, well, standard. Not a moving target. My chief objection to the EPA is that you can be doing the same thing you did yesterday today, and just as well, but be in violation. If the old standard was "clean", why isn't that "clean" today?

We know the answer, and although American industry (such as we have left) has gone the full ten yards toward cleaning up it's act, the goalposts keep moving.

9 posted on 07/26/2013 5:43:54 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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