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In Sevier County, UT, citizens of this rural region are standing up to a proposed coal-fired power plant, planned for one of Sevier’s most beautiful valleys. To learn more about this issue, go to: www.seviercitizens.com, http
Complete video at: fora.tv Panelists hotly debate Google’s proposed plan to phase out all coal plants by 2030 and replace them with alternative energy plants. Clean coal advocate Joe Lucas draws from an example of a North Dakota town to argue awind power vulnerability of wind power. —– Is clean coal hope for the future, or just misleading marketing jargon? Panelists weigh in on the possibilities and opportunities. Coal-fired power plants are the largest US emitters of CO2 and human-generated mercury, yet our nation is poised to build many new coal plants in the future. Panelists discuss new technologies for carbon capture and storage and IGCC, and the implications of energy policy decisions on the health of our economy and our planet. – Commonwealth Club of California Julio Freidman is Director of the Carbon Sequestration Project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ray Lane is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm in enterprise and consumer technology, as well as clean and alternative energy. These companies include Ausra (solar concentrator), GreatPoint Energy (coal to gas conversion), Fisker Automotive (plug-in hybrid car), Th!nk NA (electric car), Luca Technologies (biologically enhanced gas recovery from fossilized hydrocarbons …
America’s Most Endangered Mountains – Coal River Mountain, WV Pledge to Help End Mountaintop Removal. Visit: www.iLoveMountains.org – - – COMMUNITY STORY – - – “We don’t live where they mine coal. They mine coal where we live…. Our concern today is our homes, our environment, and the sustainability of the environment.” Lorelei Scarbro’s house in the little community of Rock Creek, West Virginia is the same house her husband built with his own two hands when they were married, on land handed down to him from his parents. They raised their children in this house. Lorelei watches the deer in the field below, enjoys a fresh mountain stream running by the property and says that her granddaughter takes particular delight in the wild turkeys that frequent the neighborhood. Her husband, a coal miner for 35 years who died of of black lung, is buried in the family cemetery next to their home. Lorelei’s property in Rock Creek borders Coal River Mountain, one of the most beautiful mountains in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, and one of the few untouched mountains in the region. Miles of pristine creeks and waterfalls, horseback trails and stunning vistas are often overlooked as a prime eco-tourism location. Now Coal River Mountain is slated for a mountaintop removal coal mine. If the coal company’s plans go through, nearly 10 square miles of the mountain will be destroyed, and 18 valley fills will devastate the Coal River watershed. But residents in the Coal River Valley …
In Appalachia, almost 500 mountains have been blown up for coal mining. Coal River Wind Project proposes leaving the mountain intact for a wind farm to provide long-term renewable energy to the US. Reducing our dependence on coal is not only better for the environment, say Coal River Wind, but economically profitable for local citizens and companies in Appalachia.