Peter Montague :: Coal Energy Part 1

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We are joined by Dr. Peter Montague, Director of the Environmental Research Foundation, and active member of the NJ Environmental Justice Alliance, a group focused on the disproportionate impacts of environmental pollution on people of color and lower income. From 1980-1983 he served as Project Administrator of the Hazardous Waste Research Program in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. In 1991-1992 he worked for Greenpeace USA as a Senior Research Analyst in the Toxics Reduction Campaign.

Today is part one of our interview with Peter about coal energy. He paints a vivid picture of a side of our power system few of us rarely see. Peter has a great understanding of the coal industry, I think you will find his insight fascinating.
If you have additional questions you can reach Peter here


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COAL POWER PLANT PROPOSED FOR LINDEN, N.J. :: BASIC FACTS

All sources of information for this fact sheet can be found online here.  This information originally posted at the Environmental Research Federation’s site

Background

In March 2009, a small Massachusetts company announced plans to build
a large, experimental coal power plant in Linden, N.J. (Union County),
called PurGen One. The experimental 750-megaWatt plant will capture
and bury a trillion pounds (500 million tons) of carbon dioxide (CO2)
beneath the Atlantic ocean. No one has ever done anything like this
before.
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Linden "Clean" Coal Plant :: 8/27/09 Public Hearing

Bradley Campbell, former commissioner of the N.J. Department of
Environmental Protection, will advocate for a “clean coal” plant in
Linden, N.J. August 27 (this Thursday), 6:30 p.m., at a special
meeting of the Linden City Council. (Meeting details below.)

Since 2006, Mr. Campbell, a lawyer, has been representing a small
Massachusetts firm that now wants to build a large 500-megaWatt coal
power plant in Linden (Union County).

The experimental plant would capture up to 90% of its own carbon
dioxide (CO2), and would gather CO2 from other sources in the area,
compress it into a liquid, pipe it 70 miles offshore, and pump it a
half-mile beneath the floor of the Atlantic ocean, hoping it would
stay there forever.

Over its 50-year lifetime the Linden coal plant would bury 10 million
tons of CO2 per year beneath the Atlantic, for a total of 500
million tons (a trillion pounds).

The proposal has generated great interest from the environmental
community in New Jersey. Some are asking, “Are more coal plants
really the best way to reduce global warming?”

A fact sheet about the proposed “clean coal” plant is available online
at http://tinyurl.com/mac485. Sources of information for the fact
sheet are available here: http://tinyurl.com/lmgqfv .

The meeting in Linden August 27 is open to the public.

The location is the second-floor Council Caucus room in the rear of
Linden City Hall, 301 North Wood Ave, Linden, NJ 07036.

If many people show up to hear Mr. Campbell promote “clean coal,” the
meeting will be moved to Council Chambers, 2nd floor front, in the
same building.

Get driving directions here: http://www.linden-nj.org/directions.htm


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