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Storing 720 tons of ash a day is latest Sevier power-plant wrinkle

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Realist | 4:05 p.m. Sept. 8, 2008
Everyone wants the lights to come on when they flip the switch but NIMBY!!!!
No waste with Wind! | 7:30 a.m. Sept. 9, 2008
I've just returned from the festivities in Spanish Fork over the opening of Utah's first wind power palnt. Funny, there were no dump sites nearby. In fact, the wind mills were in an ugly gravel pit and now has been dressed up with these beautiful ballet-like structures. Utah should turn to more waste-free power sources to sidestep this whole issue of creating toxic materials and where to dump them. It's sad that rural communities throughout the nation have old superfund waste sites from old mines from our forefathers, but the government still refuses to fully fund their clean up. Thus, rural communities have to divert their meager tax dollars to manage them. Call me a rural resident who sees what can happen when rural areas are targeted for dumping grounds.
We need it all | 8:29 a.m. Sept. 9, 2008
The wind-powered projects are great! Coal-fired plants are great! Geothermal is great! Refined crude oil is great! Smaller, more efficient cars with the correct tire pressure are great! Natural gas is great!

We need it all to meet Utah's growing population.
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ich dien | 10:57 a.m. Sept. 9, 2008
My great great grandfather, first editor of this rag would have caught this error, I'm sure. Your third graph opens with "But lately, naysayers have turned their sites on Sevier Power Co's proposal to dump tons of coal combustion waste . . . "
I'm certain that naysayers have turned their sights on . . . the proposed site. Huh? YUP.
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Just a Guy | 8:32 p.m. Sept. 9, 2008
I liked how the article states that it is great agricultural land that is 30 miles from the plant site. Well....it is really about 16 miles from the plant site and is also on much of a hill side and nobody is doing ANY kind of farming ANYWHERE near there. I should know....I took the guys up there to show them the site in the first place to see if it would work for a disposal site. Glad to be of service boys!!!!
Dave | 10:02 p.m. Sept. 9, 2008
If the Sierra Club is opposed to the project, it must be a worthwhile project.
Compare to Kennecott "Ponds" | 8:35 a.m. Sept. 10, 2008
Here in the Salt Lake Valley, we have a slightly larger waste dump for the heavy-metals rich slurry/excrement from the Kennecott copper mills. Their "settlement ponds" contain a bit more at 2 billion tons, dry weight. The water component of the slurry makes it more problematical for contamination of groundwater.

The Sevier site will never contain even a small fraction of the amount here.
unknown | 12:21 p.m. Oct. 7, 2008
i think that the power plant in sevier valley is unessary cuz of the STUPID polliton
Let's Vote! | 6:11 p.m. Oct. 8, 2008
This is civilization! This is democracy! Let Sevier County citizens vote!
Honestly, the power plant workers must really be scared if they won't let us vote.

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