Community Bridge begins a new season with an old topic - the Sunflower Energy power plant slated for construction in Holcomb. Blocked numerous times and opposed by a majority of Kansans, Gov. Parkinson’s parting gift to Sunflower was a construction permit, after it had previously been denied.
Scott Allegrucci, Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, and Stephanie Cole, Sierra Club of Kansas, join us for a discussion of recent developments including the firing of KDHE Secretary Bremby, the issuing of a permit for Sunflower, and the Sierra Club’s lawsuit against it.
Additional information/resources:
- http://www.gpace.org/blog/who-really-owns-the-coal-plant/ - obviously posted prior to KDHE granting a permit for the project; and Tri-State's 2009 annual report showed closer to $54 million given to Sunflower to support the project (excluding water and land purchases)
- http://www.gpace.org/blog/gpace-comments-and-questions-to-tri-state-generation-transmission/ - posted after my trip to Westminster to provide public comment as part of Tri-State's IRP public process (Tri-State has never answered any of the questions we asked)
- http://www.gpace.org/blog/gpace-comments-from-scott-allegrucci-at-final-kdhe-hearing/ - my oral comments delivered at the fourth and final public hearing on the permit
- http://www.gpace.org/blog/gaming-the-system-to-get-a-coal-plant/ - covers the leaked Sunflower email that confirms political collusion between Parkinson and pro-coal forces to pressure KDHE
- http://www.gpace.org/blog/a-coal-plant-over-the-rainbow-the-parkinson-kdhe-sunflower-electric-mess/ - most recent entry that is a pretty good overview of the mess this process in Kansas has become over the last several months
Community Bridge apologies for the sound quality of this recording, we had some technical difficulties.
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