It was shut down, but the policies of the OBama administration insured it would never reopen. I’d like to know more about the history.
Obama had very little to do with that plant-much as I hate to disappoint you. That plant was run by CAL ED and they did NOT give one rip about safety at that plant.
First, it was a coal slurry plant. The coal was piped in from the Navajo/Ute mine near Kayenta. That pipe burst and caused a whole hell of a lot of problems. Second, they had several accidents at that plant, one which killed 4 or 5 men when a reclaim steam pipe busted killing those guys and injuring several. That plant was an engineering disaster from the get go. The resulting accidents ended up in civil court, of course, and the plant ended up paying out a ton of money.
That plant was never to reopen because of the engineering of the place. Nobody in their right mind would touch it. They did consider running it on NG but they would have had to run a couple of new pipes from near Golden Shores up there. You know, the one that crosses I 40 and the river down there?
I often wondered if Dirty Harry Reid had his mitts in that disaster. Was funny because that SOB was involved in the infamous solar farm they tried to get put in around there.
It was shut down and idled in 2005. It remained idle until 09 when they decided to scrap it because nobody would bite at buying it as it was. Oh there was interest, but after those interested looked into it, they backed out.
And I dont care who says it was Obama, that was an excuse. Typical for this neck of the woods.
One other thing. I often wonder why in the hell they run around with road graders to blade these roads around here in GV. Why cant they put under body blades under a dump truck or two and maintain these roads that way? Back in the UP of Mich where I come from they do most of their road grading that way, and, they use those under body blades for snow removal almost exclusively. Of course if I were to go to the co commission meeting and mention that, they would tell me to move back to the UP I would suppose.
Here, this is about how it went there although there was much more to it.
And it was the NAV/Hopi and not the UTE who supplied the coal. My bad.
I used to know a couple of the guys who were hurt in that steam pipe accident and they are both really screwed up.
They say that 6 were killed. I donbt remember hearing of that many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohave_Power_Station