Comments on: Can Boulder, Colorado close its historic Valmont Coal Plant? ~ via Kevin Moran.

By: Five Citizens Arrested at Valmont Power Plant. | elephant journal

Five Citizens Arrested at Valmont Power Plant. | elephant journal — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:17:16 +0000

[...] a rally took place on outside of the Valmont Power Plant. Bill McKibben, a leading climate change activist and founder of 350.org, who happened to be in [...]

By: Doug Grinbergs

Doug Grinbergs — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:17:53 +0000

I'm sorry to see my photos presented here without any credit, as if they are the work of Elephant Journal, and then referenced elsewhere (e.g. Shea's piece on mnn.com), again without proper credit (EJ getting credit). Except for the daytime power plant shot, photos and captions were all copied from my Flickr photostream; they are copyright 2009 Doug Grinbergs.

By: Bud Wilson

Bud Wilson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:49:12 +0000

Please see my comment to the article about the Valmont Coal Plant that drew your attention. Xcel received more than 1,000 proposal for clean sources of energy to replace their dirty 19th century technology – burning coal. The simple truth is they don't need the 186 Mega Watts of electricity that the Valmont plant produces. No one will be denied sufficient energy to meet his or her needs in the event the citizens are successful in shutting down this horrible source of air pollution (1.5 million Tons of CO2 annually) not to mention mercury and other toxic substances that contribute to the development of Ozone in the Boulder Valley…by the way, we received an "F" from the American Lung Association for Ozone concentrations, by comparison, Denver received a "C". The trade off is this clean air for being happy using a little less electricity and paying a tiny bit more for it. Estimates are no more than $75.00 for an entire year at current prices… we know the cost of fossil fuels will go up and renewable clean energy costs are rapidly going down! I hope this helps answer your question.

By: Bud Wilson

Bud Wilson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:33:43 +0000

Xcel is supposed to be a "public service" organization. In my view, polluting the air by burning coal is not providing a public service. It is providing a public nuisance that damages the health and well being of citizens! They already have an excess capacity of electrical energy factored at 16% ABOVE peak "demand". Isn't it interesting that we have "evolved" as a society to "demand" unlimited supplies of energy? Valmont produces 186 Megawatts of power that is not needed even during the so called "peak demand" times. Even children know that we can't continue to treat the earth, our water and our atmosphere as if they were bottomless garbage pits without suffering serious consequences. And here we have grown men and women (engineers and business people) believing that profits and "progress" justify trashing the quality of our life support systems. It is long past time to dump a 19th century dirty technology and immediately invest in the clean energy transformation of our way of life! Let's commit to health and ecological balance now that we find ourselves living in the 21st century! The technologies are here NOW, don't let Xcel persuade you otherwise! – Bud

By: Pete Moran

Pete Moran — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:52:28 +0000

Clean coal… there's an oxymoron for you. It is pathetic to think that this plant is nothing more than a danger to Boulder residents in particular and the planet on a larger scale. Close it and reinvest in real clenn energy… –Pete

By: Shea Gunther

Shea Gunther — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:34:35 +0000

Lots of places- put some money into making Boulder and the surrounding area more efficient with their electricity, energy we don't need to make in the first place is better than having to actually produce it- add more wind and solar to the grid (we can do this fast, put panels on every roof in Boulder), and/or convert the Valmont plant to a biomass plant and burn organic industrial and lumber waste. Coal is the enemy of mankind and we need to stop burning it.

By: cxw

cxw — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:30:05 +0000

And how will we get electricity ?