DEQ to host a public hearing on Duke Energy landfill permit for Belews Creek Steam Station Coal Ash Impoundment Closure
RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Waste Management (DWM) will host a public hearing on Tuesday, May 25, on a draft solid waste permit for a new landfill at the Belews Creek Steam Station. The draft permit will include Duke Energy’s construction and operation of a new landfill (called the Ash Basin Landfill) for the disposal of excavated coal ash at the Belews Creek Steam Station. Members of the public are invited to attend the public hearing online or by phone and provide their comments on the proposed permit.
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JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Reuters) - South Africa plans to lift the licensing threshold for small-scale power generation projects to 10 megawatts (MW) from 1 MW, a boost to firms anxious to curb their reliance on ailing state utility Eskom, but industry experts had hoped for more.
Africa’s most industrialised economy regularly suffers electricity outages because of faults at Eskom’s creaking coal-fired power stations.
But onerous regulations have prevented many companies, such as miners, from setting up their own generation facilities.
According to a notice published in the government gazette on Friday, “embedded generation” projects of up to 10 MW will be exempt from requiring a licence but will need to register with energy regulator Nersa.
After acknowledging some of the promises Chinese President Xi Jinping made, Kerry argued during a CNN town hall that the country is “not doing enough.
“They have a massive coal dependency. We have to try to get them to move further and we have to also ask China not to be funding the building of new coal-fired power plants in other parts of the world,” he said.
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China, during the White House event this week, said it would “strictly limit” its increase in coal consumption through 2025 and start to “phase it down” starting in 2026.
Xi also said that the country plans to “strictly control” coal-fired power plant projects.
China s plans to limit coal usage over the next five years and reduce its consumption during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30) will spur the low-carbon transformation of the country s electric power system and ensure that it achieves its goal of peaking carbon emissions before 2030, experts said.
Addressing the Leaders Summit on Climate via video link from Beijing, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China will limit the increase in coal consumption during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) and reduce coal consumption during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, with an eye on strictly controlling coal-fired power generation projects.
Bill in Montana Legislature would launch investigation against âenvironmental groupsâ
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Posted at 1:16 PM, Apr 24, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-24 15:16:38-04
A day after some Republicans in the Montana House joined with Democrats to kill a controversial bill to allow NorthWestern Energy to purchase more power from Colstrip while cutting out the oversight of the Public Service Commission, Sen. Duane Ankney, R-Colstrip, introduced legislation that would allow the Attorney Generalâs Office to investigative âenvironmental groups.â
Ankney made no bones about who he was targeting and why during a hearing in the Senateâs Finance and Claims Committee.
âI targeted environmental organizations period,â Ankney said. âYou got to narrow these groups like we did with the hospitals through their nonprofit status. This one is aimed toward environmentalist organizations. There isnât a trade organization that is trying to shut down coal m