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To: raccoonradio
and electric leaf blowers.

Betcha the power for them comes from a coal plant.

4 posted on 05/09/2012 9:08:11 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The United States of America, a banana republic since 1913)
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There’s a coal plant in the next city from them, but due to shut down...

http://articles.boston.com/2011-05-12/news/29536845_1_power-plants-iso-new-england-cleaner-energy

>>Salem Harbor Power Station scheduled to close by June 2014
May 12, 2011|By Sean Teehan, Globe Correspondent
The owners of the coal- and oil-fired Salem Harbor Power Station announced yesterday they will shutter the plant within three years because environmental regulations and facility upgrades make the plant too costly to operate.
The announcement by Dominion Resources Inc. comes one day after the private overseer of the region’s power network declared that there would be enough energy available even during peak periods if Dominion closed two of the four boilers at the massive 747-megawatt plant. Dominion now says it will close all four boilers by June 2014.
Some Salem residents and officials bemoaned the loss of a business that pays more than $4 million in taxes each year and provides about 150 jobs. But environmentalists said it was a signal New England is moving toward cleaner energy.


6 posted on 05/09/2012 9:22:14 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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