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  • Kansas Coal Plant Deal

    05/04/2009 3:19:40 PM PDT · by Kansas58 · 19 replies · 2,121+ views
    The Wichita Eagle ^ | 05/06/2009 | Dion Leffler
    "TOPEKA - Peace broke out in the long-running battle over coal plants in western Kansas today: Gov. Mark Parkinson and Earl Watkins, chief executive of Sunflower Electric Power Corp., announced they had reached agreement on a plan to allow a downsized coal power station near Holcomb. Under the settlement, Sunflower agreed to reduce its planned coal plants from two units with a capacity of 700 megawatts each to a single 895-megawatt unit. The company agreed to a package of environmental improvements, reducing the carbon dioxide from the proposed power plant from nearly 11 million tons a year to 6.6 million...