{"id":1153,"date":"2012-01-26T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/coal-plants-washington-and-ben-hill-not-quite-dead-yet.html"},"modified":"2012-01-26T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:08:21","slug":"coal-plants-washington-and-ben-hill-not-quite-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/coal-plants-washington-and-ben-hill-not-quite-dead-yet.html","title":{"rendered":"Coal Plants Washington and Ben Hill not quite dead yet"},"content":{"rendered":"Somebody’s been watching too much Twilight.\nPlant Washington now joins the undead.\n\n<\/a>\nBut maybe Plant Ben Hill is really dead.\n

\nDave Williams wrote for the Atlanta Business Journal yesterday,\n\nGeorgia coal plant project to push on<\/a>,\n

\n\nCobb Electric Membership Corp.<\/a>‘s board of directors voted Tuesday to\npull out of the $2.1 billion 850-megawatt Plant Washington project,\nciting the uncertain impacts of tightened federal regulation of\ncarbon emissions. Cobb EMC was the largest participant in the\nconsortium\n\nPower4Georgians.<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nThe consortium began looking for other partners to replace Cobb EMC\nwell before Wednesday’s decision, which had been anticipated, said\nDean Alford, spokesman for Power4Georgians.\n

\n“This in no way changes the course,” he said.\n“It’s still full steam ahead.”\n<\/blockquote>\nBut he wouldn’t say who else would help fund it.\nWe’ll see whether he’s blustering or actually has any further backers.\n

\nJohn Roach and Kim Isaza in MJDOnline yesterday,\n\nEMC backs out of plan to build coal-fired plant<\/a>,\nhad a list of the other current partners:\n\n\n

\n\nSnapping Shoals<\/a>,\n\nCentral Georgia<\/a> and\n\nWashington EMCs<\/a> are the other\npartners in Power 4 Georgians consortium which had also proposed to\nbuild a second large coal-fired plant in south Georgia to be called\nPlant Ben Hill.\n<\/blockquote>\n\nS. Heather Duncan in the Macon Telegraph today<\/a>\nnamed a fourth backer and had some reaction from several of the backers:\n
\nUpson EMC had a board meeting Wednesday, at which Cobb EMC’s\ndecision was discussed, said Neil Trice, CEO of Upson EMC.\n

\n“We’re committed to continue,” he said.\n

\nHe and Christy Chewning, manager of marketing at Central Georgia\nEMC, said Wednesday that their cooperatives had not been asked to\ncontribute any additional funding now that Cobb EMC has pulled out.\n

\n“We regret Cobb EMC’s decision,” Chewning said.\n“At this moment, we are full speed ahead on (the\nproject).” Central Georgia EMC has about 50,000 meters in 14\ncounties, including Bibb, Jones, Monroe, Putnam, Lamar, Jasper and\nButts.\n

\nWashington EMC officials did not return calls Wednesday.\n

\nSnapping Shoals EMC is still committed to the Plant Washington\nproject, said Leigh-Anne Burgess, EMC communications specialist.\n“The effects of Cobb EMC’s decision to exit the project are\ncurrently unclear,” she said in an email. “We will be exploring all\nour options over the next few months.”\n<\/blockquote>\nSo somebody’s got to come up with the 40% backing Cobb EMC was putting in.\nSOunds like whistling through the coal dust to me.\n

\nSpeaking of that second plant with the same backers, the ABC article remarked:\n

\n\n<\/a>\nThe Cobb EMC board also voted to end the utility’s participation in\na second power plant proposed by Power4Georgians. The Ben Hill\nCounty, Ga., project is not as far along in planning as Plant Washington.\n<\/blockquote>\nLess than half as far as Washington County,\nBen Hill County is only about 60 miles from here as the smoke blows.\n\nNo coal plant in Ben Hill County!<\/a>\n

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