"WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD" gordon lightfoot
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
Hard to believe it's been 41 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior November 10, 1975.
Until that date I had always believed those long lake ships were unsinkable.
So what's our neighbor energy company that controls transmission of the power we receive in Painesville?
FirstEnergy Corp.'s competitive business is under strategic review and could be forced to file for bankruptcy as the company seeks regulatory and legislative help for it's generation side of the business.
Recently FirstEnergy cancelled the three remaining years of a 9- year contract to supply electricity the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC) a group that provides power to 500,000 customers .
Those 500,000 customers need not worry (NOPEC) has found a new supplier. ( Must be nice to walk away from bad contracts?) Wonder why we here in Painesville don't get a bailout?
Then on top of everything FirstEnergy played the Green Card? Seems they would like to get out long term supply contracts and transportation. BNST and CSX hold the majority of transportation contracts. FirstEnergy said all the plants covered by the contract were deactivated by April 16,2015 due to EPA's Mercury and Air Toxic Standards.
My question is if FirstEnergy doesn't need the transportation of 3.5 million tons of coal annually through 2025 to certain Ohio coal plants, what presently are we running power to cook that Thanksgiving turkey and light up our lives?
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Many people have mentioned the flag at the Painesville Power Plant flying at half-staff? Yet not at any other city facility?
Is this due to the passing of Robert Fountain or is there another reason?
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I have to ask about that 45 day project for northbound RT.44 to westbound RT.2 seems 45 days have come and gone?
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Don't forget tonight's Planning Commission Meeting they will have the Utility Poles will be on the agenda.
posted by terminator1 @ 7:21 AM
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10 Comments:
No disrespect towards Bob Fountain, but the flag at the power plant is at half-staff because of the passing of Scott Leonello. Scott was an engineer at the Plant. His funeral Mass is today at St Mary Church. The obit is in the News Herald. RIP
9:35 Glad for the info. More than I got from the city?
RIP Scott
Some believed it was due to the election Tuesday?
I don't believe Superintendent Jeff McHugh would lower the flag because of the election. Donald Trump is pro-coal and he made a lot of promises to Ohio coal miners. We may see our coal burning Electric Plant competitive again.
What is in jeopardy are the costly alternative energy pipe dreams ie windmills, battery, solar and hydo projects. Without federal funds these projects are history.
Many Trump supporters believe the first step "to make America great again" is to role back Federal Regulations like the EPA. Lets put Ohio coal miners back to work, lets burn Ohio coal and gas, lets decrease our dependency on foreign oil. And let stop wasting American tax dollars on expensive feel good alternative energy that seldom helps the energy consumer.
8:02 I didn't either. Sadly we never will see our Power Plant being competitive again. If it does it can only mean that electric rates have risen astronomically. Plus our Power Portfolio has no room for production from our plant. We currently are under many long term contracts that the extra power is only needed on rare occasions. Promise as some will coal is DOA natural gas as well as the price of alternative energy keeps going down. I'd like to share your dream but there is no such thing as clean coal and it's days have come and gone.
Whether or not coal can ever be "clean" or not we do not know as Obama picked the winner in the energy market during his term. Technology is always evolving, perhaps if the tax dollars that were used to subsidize "clean" energy had been spent in studying more efficient ways to use coal we may have different solutions.
I have watched and studied the windmill solution for at least 20 years now. There has been a ton of money spend on it and they are still not very efficient and have a limited potential in the energy solution. They are also not very environmentally friendly either when you study their carbon footprint and the damage they wreak upon birds and other wildlife. Take a drive on US 30 west from Mansfield to Fort Wayne and you will see 100's of windmills littering the landscape.
6:44 it cost an outrageous price to get coal even to get as clean as natural gas. No the power industries pick the winners and loser's. The clean energy subsidizes you speak of look at how much our government spend on coal subsidize the coal industries. It will amaze you.
Dig all the coal you want, then find a market for it.
Go to Montana on I-15 near the Canadian border or to the area around Palm Springs, California or to the area near Sweetwater, Texas if you want to see wind turbines. They are in these locations by the hundreds and believe me it is not very pleasant to look at.
Impressive? Yes it is that, but that impressiveness wears off as you drive for miles and see nothing else.
I can hardly wait for the time when they start to break down and replacement parts are no longer available. They will all be abandoned and the people living near them will get to see the skeletons for years to come.
It will happen.
Term is right. Coal is DOA. OBama didn't kill coal, the EPA didn't kill coal and the Donald won't save the miners. Inexpensive fracking natural gas killed coal!
1:06 Please take this not as an insult but that has to be the craziest reason to burn coal! Ever see what coal mines leave behind?
6:44 I see everyone blaming someone for the death of coal and no one realizing what's happened in the last ten years.
My question is what will coal miner's do once they find out they have been duped?
Well yesterday may have been the final nail in Coal's coffin?
USGF announced the largest Oil and Gas discovery in Texas.
Wolfcamp shale contains 20 billion barrels of oil and 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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