And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:39:14 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Ironic emissions >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 > >Edison announces $350 million plan to reduce emissions at Nevada power >plant >Monday, December 14, 1998 > > >URL: >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/1998/12/14/ >state0202EST0094.DTL > > > >(12-14) 02:02 EST ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) -- A Southern California Edison >plan to curb emissions at a Nevada power plant ranked among the worst >polluters in the Southwest is too weak, environmentalists say. > >Edison's $350 million proposal, announced Friday, calls for an 80 >percent reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions over the next decade from >the Mohave Generating Station at Laughlin, Nev. > >But the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups want a >90 percent reduction in a much shorter timetable. Edison is facing >lawsuits over the plant's pollutants, which some say contribute to a >brownish haze that hangs over the Grand Canyon. > >``We had all been trying to figure out what to do about this plant, and >this proposal represents something of a breakthrough,'' said Nancy >Sutley, a senior policy advisor with the EPA. ``But 10 years is a long >time given the visibility problems in the Grand Canyon.'' > >The plant produces electricity for more than 1 million homes in Nevada >and Southern California and employs nearly 1,000 people. It's also the >major source of income for the two American Indian tribes who supply the >coal for the facility, the Navajo and Hopi nations of Arizona and New >Mexico. > >Hopi Tribal Chairman Wayne Taylor Jr. attacked Edison's proposal, saying >such unilateral action by the plant's owners ``violates an understanding >... that the Hopi would have an opportunity for meaningful input.'' > >And environmentalists insist the plant's emissions can be sharply >reduced with current technology. > >``Eighty percent (reduction) is a high enough number so that it is not >an insult, but it's at the absolute bottom end of what you would expect >from the equipment,'' said Mary Nichols, a former EPA air quality >expert. > >Edison agrees it's possible to reduce emissions by more than 80 percent, >but such technology would use up more water and generate even more >waste, said Mike Hertel, the company's manager of environmental affairs. > > >Edison, which owns the largest share of the plant, has threatened to >close it down by 2008 if it fails to agree on a cleanup proposal with >the facility's three other owners -- the Los Angeles Department of Water >and Power, Nevada Power and Arizona's Salt River Project. > >Edison said it's willing to discuss other cleanup proposals with plant >employees, EPA officials, environmental groups, Indian tribes and nearby >residents. > >``We're going into this collaborative process with the stakeholders with >the position that we will install the pollution control devices no later >than 2008 or the plant will shut down,'' said Tom Higgins, Edison's vice >president for corporate communications. > >Edison's proposal comes just as the EPA concludes a Congress-ordered >study on the sources of the Grand Canyon haze. > >A draft of the study has concluded only that ``sulfur emissions from the >plant are actually arriving at the Grand Canyon.'' The emissions' >contribution to the haze remains ``a little inconclusive,'' said Ms. >Sutley of the EPA. > > > > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment ...http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ `"` `"` `"` `"` `"` `"`
