Not exact matches
As for the workers affected by the
closure of the Gunsan
plant, they will be sent to
other plants.
While Madison joined
other cities in marking the
closure of Kraft Heinz factories Wednesday, three
plants in New York are expected to stay open for at least five years.
Plant -
closure and religion and labor coalitions have been formed, among
other places, in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago and California.
With his «Changing Lives» motto, President Mahama, will in the coming days, commission
other major projects in Accra, including the new Ridge Hospital, inauguration of the James Town - Bukom ultra modern boxing arena, inaugurate the new liquid waste treatment
plant, to make way for the eternal
closure of lavender hill, which has been in existence for the past 60 years.
While Cuomo has seized upon every hiccup at the Indian Point nuclear
plant downstate to amplify his calls for its
closure, he has touted the benefits of the FitzPatrick
plant and
other upstate nuclear power generation.
With four years to plan for the nuclear
plant's
closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as
other electricity generating resources come online.
In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power
plant in upstate New York, and for
other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the
closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear
plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.
Other major TVA facilities that have announced plans in recent years to shut down include the Colbert Fossil
Plant, also in Alabama, and the Paradise Fossil
Plant in Kentucky, where two of three coal units were slated for
closure while a third unit was to be converted to burn natural gas (ClimateWire, Nov. 15, 2013).
[ii] The political agenda in the province made it impossible to consider
other options, resulting in the
closure of the last coal - fired power
plant in 2014 and making new coal
plants illegal despite the knowledge that those
plants contributed minimally to emissions of criteria pollutants in the province.
Complicating this is that unlike
other power
plants, nuclear
plant closures are permanent, as there is no established regulatory process to reverse the decision, the NEI says.
And while closing the power
plants would have an affect on «generator deliverability,» or the ability for those regions to export power to
others, PJM also noted that «transmission upgrades are required to preserve deliverability of all existing PJM capacity resources under various contingency conditions» — or, in
other words, that investments are needed regardless of the
closure plans.
Workforce Protection: There will be continued employment at the
plant throughout the
closure process (through 2021), and under the terms of its agreement with New York State, Entergy has committed to offer
plant employees new jobs at
other facilities.
Biomass, wind and
other clean sources produced a quarter of UK electricity last year, government figures show, as
plant closures reduced coal's share to 22 %
Of course, any change in the electricity generation mix will result in job losses in some areas, such as the
closure of existing coal
plants, and gains in
other areas, such as new renewable energy resources and energy efficiency.
We published the first detailed count of nuclear
plants at risk of
closure, and helped put the issue on the front - pages of the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, and in hundreds of
other newspapers and columns.
Utilities that cancel
plants often name reasons for their
closure other than public opposition.
And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and
other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the
closure of coal and
other fossil fuel power
plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.
Carine has developed considerable experience with
plant closures, remediation, real estate matters and
other asset transfers (including drafting environmental warrantees).