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Kaiparowits coal project and the environment: a case study

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OSTI ID:6300953
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The Kaiparowits power plant in southern Utah, was to have been the largest coal-burning plant in the United States, consuming nine million tons of low-sulfur coal a year and producing 3000 megawatts of electricity. This case study focuses on the role that environmental politics played in cancellation of the Kaiparowits project. The study analyzes the Kaiparowits project history in order to raise a number of important environmental, political, regulatory, and economic issues associated with energy expansion and environmental protection. Chapter 2 outlines the project's history. Chapter 3 characterizes the uncertainty over Kaiparowits' environmental effects and the differing interpretations of the Kaiparowits Environmental Impact Statement. This chapter also presents the debate over the need for the Kaiparowits project and the dispute over energy demand projections. Chapter 4 concentrates on the environmentalist role in the project's history. Chapter 5 analyzes the federal regulatory context and the decision-making processes in the Department of Interior relevant to Kaiparowits. Chapter 6 characterizes the changing constraints on utility decision-making and the different factors underlying the utility decision to withdraw the Kaiparowits application. A number of questions regarding the wider effects and implications of the Kaiparowits withdrawal are raised in the concluding chapter.
OSTI ID:
6300953
Report Number(s):
EPRI-EA-1620
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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