(Photo by Phil Taylor)
Former coal miner Pete Ramey, 79, grew up in the mountains along Virginia’s border with Kentucky. He said mountain-top removal mining has become so prevalent that his scenery changes daily.
By Phil Taylor, Medill
When you turn on your computer, do you know where the electricity lighting your screen originates? What about the [...]
Coal Mining Runs Deep in Appalachia, But it Only Scratches the Surface of These Mountains
July 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · Appalachia, Appalachian Voices, Boone, Cliffside, coal, Cornell, Department of Engery, Dominion, Energy Information Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Exeter, mines, mountain-top removal, Powder River Basin, Prescott mining, Toms Creek, Wise County, Wise County Chamber of Commerce
The Idea of Nuclear Power? Just Peachy in This Part of South Carolina
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
(Photo by Phil Taylor)Gaffney, South Carolina’s one-million gallon “Peachoid.”
Did you know Cherokee County, S.C., once produced more peaches than the entire state of Georgia? A million-gallon, peach-shaped water tower built along I-85 was my first hint while driving into Gaffney, where Duke Energy plans to build a 2,234 megawatt nuclear power plant.
Tags: · Broad River, Cherokee County, Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, coal, Dominion, Duke Energy, Gaffney, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, South Carolina
Utilities: Energy Efficiency Won’t Neutralize Population Growth
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
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Duke Energy’s coal-fired plant in southern North Carolina. The company is studying whether an addition will capture a maximum of mercury emissions. Construction is planned during the study.
Energy demand clashed with economics Tuesday morning at the North Carolina Public Utilities Commission hearing on the state’s long-term electricity demand, and the environment was [...]
Tags: · carbon, employment, environmental, Integrative Resource, NC GreenPower, NC Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, population growth, renewable energy, utilities
Duke Energy Feud Pits Conservationists Against Carolina Coal
July 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Duke Energy’s Lake Wylie Hydro Station, straddling York County, South Carolina and Mecklenburg, North Carolina, generates 60 megawatts of power, enough to power almost 10,000 homes. North Carolina passed an energy mandate last year requiring utilities like Duke to have 12.5 percent of its energy come from renewable sources and energy efficiency by 2021.
By Phil [...]
Tags: · coal, conservation, Duke Energy, Green Energy, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Progress Energy, renewable energy
