ARIPPA ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PLANTS RESTORE OVER 4500 ACRES OF AML IN 2008
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NEWS RELEASE………… ARIPPA
2015 Chestnut Street Camp Hill PA 17011
Fax: 717 763 7455
Email:[email protected] Web: www.arippa.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Jeff A McNelly, Executive Director,
Phone: 717 763 7635
ARIPPA ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PLANTS RESTORE OVER 4500 ACRES OF ABANDONED MINE LANDS AND MILES OF DEGRADED STREAMS IN 2008
Environmentally Beneficial Electric Generating plants remove waste coal and utilize beneficial use ash to reclaim lands back to their natural beauty…without any expenditure of tax dollars.
CAMP HILL – In recognition of Earth Week, ARIPPA’s Executive Director Jeff A McNelly reported today that the waste-coal-to-alternative-energy industry reached a significant milestone in its ongoing efforts to reclaim damaged abandoned mine reclamation lands. The industry now totals (data recording began in1988) over 4,500 acres of reclaimed mine-scarred lands which will also restore life to hundreds of miles of formerly dead streams.
McNelly said that he is proud that the industry has reached this significant milestone and is happy to add the industry’s successful efforts (without the use of tax dollars) with those of PADEP. PADEP recently announced that they had successfully restored 960 damaged acres at an approximate tax-payer cost of 32 million dollars.
“Our industry’s successful efforts without the use of tax dollars together with the Commonwealth’s tax-payer supported efforts add up to a dedicated and concentrated effort to rid our lands of the significant environmental hazards that abandoned mine lands have created” McNelly stated. “Such hazards endanger the public and limit economic development and recreational opportunities in mining communities”, he added.
“Reclamation efforts by our industry, valued at approximately 90 million dollars has positive effects not only on the directly improved community, but also on many other affect counties nearby, and government efforts which utilize tax-payer dollars”. McNelly emphasized.
CFB (Circulating Fluidized Bed) clean-coal technology, universally utilized by the industry, annually generates approximately 10% of the total electric generation in the Commonwealth of PA…supplying hundreds of thousands of homes and industry with much needed alternative energy, while at the same time directly and indirectly employing approximately 2500 workers and pumping millions of dollars into the economy.
Collectively the industry has removed and converted over 145 million tons of waste coal into alternative energy. Its removal and conversion efforts added together with the highly regulated use of beneficial ash to reclaim environmentally damaged lands makes it one of the few environmentally beneficial alternative energy industries in the world.
Pennsylvania has approximately 180,000 acres of abandoned mine lands dating back to when coal mining began in the commonwealth in the 1700s. More than two billion tons of waste coal sits in piles across the state and an estimated 4,600 miles of rivers and streams are degraded by mine drainage. PADEP has determined that it would cost approximately 10 billion dollars of tax-payer funds to correct these problems
Twenty years of operational and environmental industry data indicates that the conversion of waste coal into alternative energy is generated in a safe manner at near capacity levels with a high degree of availability.
In recognition of these factors ARIPPA, the non profit trade association representing the industry, annually recognizes and awards member plants with exceptional operational industry data results. Awards being announced today include availability, capacity, environmental achievement, and safety. The awards will be distributed at the annual ARIPPA Tech-Symposium Awards Luncheon held August 26, 2009 at the Sheraton Harrisburg-Hershey.
For more information, visit www.arippa.org
Editor’s note: The following is a list by county of the ARIPPA member plants and their correlating awards achieved in 2008. These awards will be presented at the annual ARIPPA Tech-Symposium Awards Luncheon held August 26, 2009 at the Sheraton Harrisburg-Hershey.
Capacity: Anthracite- Northampton County Northampton Generating Co (97.32%)
Bituminous- Cambria County Cambria CoGen Co (99.76%)
Availability: Anthracite- Northampton County Northampton Generating Co (97.51%) Single Boiler
Anthracite- Carbon County Panther Creek Partners (93.73%) Multiple Boilers
Bituminous-Clarion County Piney Creek, L.P. (94.82%) Single Boiler
Bituminous-Cambria County Cambria CoGen Co (99.76%) Multiple Boilers
Safety: Anthracite- Delaware County Kimberly Clark-Chester Plant
Carbon County Northeastern Power Co,
Schuylkill County WPS Westwood,
Schuylkill County Wheelabrator Frackville
Bituminous- Cambria County Cambria CoGen Co,
West Virginia American Bituminous Power,
Cambria County Inter-Power-Colver,
Clarion County Piney Creek, L.P
Environmental Achievement: Schuylkill County Schuylkill Energy Resources
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