Posted on 07/12/2015 5:36:48 PM PDT by george76
Most of the 1.5 million electricity consumers served by the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association probably don’t think about it. But when they wake up and flip on their light switches each morning, they can thank in significant part Tri-State’s Craig Station power plant in Moffat County, the second largest in Colorado.
And that power plant can operate only thanks to hundreds of local workers digging in, not just figuratively at the plant itself, but literally at the two area surface mines — Colowyo and Trapper — that provide the plant’s coal.
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With 220 people working at Colowyo, some 180 more at the Trapper Mine, and 300 at the power plant, coal is the economic backbone of the region, and anxiety in the area is great ...
“This is a large reason the (electric) grid is as stable as it is,” Craig Station manager Rich Thompson said of the 1,300-megawatt plant as he peered down from its roof and took in the view of the facility and its three 600-foot-high stacks that tower over Craig.
It’s powered by three generator units that consume a total of 5 million tons of coal a year.
Tri-State, owned by 44 electric cooperatives and public power districts that it serves, has been working to continue expanding its portfolio of solar, wind, hydroelectric and other renewable fuels.
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WildEarth Guardians filed the suit that led to the May ruling that has put the futures of the Colowyo and Trapper mines in immediate jeopardy. Judge R. Brooke Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Colorado
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resident Obama nominated Jackson in 2010 to serve as a federal judge. Bennet and former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, both Democrats, had recommended him for nomination.
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(Excerpt) Read more at gjsentinel.com ...
This will make the price of electricity sky rocket. Bad for poor people. Junk science; coal can be burned relatively cleanly.
Just ANOTHER attack on any hydrocarbon fuel source, no matter how important it is, by Obama and his goons. It is all about pandering to the radical left base and Obama’s sick liberal agenda.
As he promised:
>> This will make the price of electricity sky rocket
The Republican Congress we sent there last year sees no need to interject some sanity into our energy policy?
No need to reign in the environwackos?
geor....I hope the residents in the area did not vote for zero’s “fundamentally transforming America” or the hope and change BS. Elections have consequences and Senator Bennet should take some heat because he voted for the Federal judge who will make a ruling if it goes against the citizens.
Bennet is up for reelection in 2016.
Colorado coal is some of the very best in the US.
Perhaps. But it is black or brown coal. And all that black or brown coal goes into an oven and only smoke comes out. The black or brown coal is destroyed utterly leaving only bitter ashes. A white supremacist’s dream! When will they burn white coal? Where is the Republican party denouncing this color discrimination?
The pResidnet told every one he was going to do it but I bet some people with skin in the coal mining game voted for him.
Obama’s War On Coal
Who needs dirty old coal? I get my electricity from the plugs in the wall.
ColoWyo employs people from both Moffat and Rio Blanco counties. Based on the last couple elections, who has their back?2012
Moffat
Romney 76%
Obama 22%
3rd 2%Rio Blanco
Romney 81%
Obama 17%
3rd 2%2014
Moffat
Gardner 76%
udall 17%
3rd 7%Rio Blanco
Gardner 81%
udall 13%
3rd 5%
That’s another one Trump can sound off on.
The guy has a TON of material to work with.
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