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Most likely a private company. The power goes to PA. Since you seem to want to blame the state they are in charge of environmental laws and regulation at the state level. However, I dont feel there needs to be blame. Just turn off the coal power plants and tell PA to build coal powerplants in PA.
Not blaming the state at all. Just asking who built the power plant since another poster was blaming the state for the road conditions. States are often involved in building power plants in some capacity.
I don't think anyone is gonna die or suffer severe adverse health affects from this. Morgantown generally has pretty good air quality - a ton better than the Kanawha Valley, particularly back in it's heyday when it used to "snow" in July from the Monsanto/Union Carbide/other pollution. To this day, I think there is a higher than normal brain cancer rate in the Kanawha Valley. Can I prove this is due to these plants? - no, but I have my suspicion.
Not blaming the state at all. Just asking who built the power plant since another poster was blaming the state for the road conditions. States are often involved in building power plants in some capacity.
The state is responsible for the highways.
The roads Morgantown needs are state highways that cant keep up with the biggest population in WV.
Im not sure about these powerplants. Energy companies often do have links with state government and states often subsidize private companies by giving them government monopolies or giving them ridiculous contracts. For this case I really dont know but it wouldnt surprise me if the state government is partially behind this. Coal mining companies run this state, so I dont see why coal power companies wouldnt have influence.
I really dont care who is at fault. We can worry about that after we shut down the coal plant giving power to PA and replace the coal plant downtown with a cleaner form of energy. If it takes the state to shut them down than the state is at fault, but if it could be done at the local level lets close them first and then figure out who is in bed with coal power plant companies.
I don't think anyone is gonna die or suffer severe adverse health affects from this. Morgantown generally has pretty good air quality - a ton better than the Kanawha Valley, particularly back in it's heyday when it used to "snow" in July from the Monsanto/Union Carbide/other pollution. To this day, I think there is a higher than normal brain cancer rate in the Kanawha Valley. Can I prove this is due to these plants? - no, but I have my suspicion.
Monsanto is in Charleston. They should be closed down too. They poison WV, kill its people, and take the money somewhere else. All WV gets is problems.
The article says they are considering possibly decommissioning the coal plant by the river. I think that would be a huge step forward, as it is an eyesore on the skyline right now.
That would be a great first step. 2nd step is shut down the coal plant in Cheat Lake that provides power to PA. Nothing against PA, but we dont want it. If you need the power they can build a cleaner power plant where it used to be.
At a time when coal is on the downswing and plants are closing, I can't understand why that longview plant was constructed.
Who knows what's being put in the air above chemical row along the river across from don knotts. Also, The incredible amount of Mack trucks on the road is many times worse than "idling traffic"
Contrary to what the wackos would have you believe, the problem is not coal fired power plants. We don't have any more power plants than they do elsewhere. It is our growing traffic situation, and only state government can solve that. We pack more cars in 10 square miles than any city in the state does any place. Look at the traffic counts and you will get the picture. They need to get off their duffs and give us the roads we need, rather than carp about roads to nowhere.
Most of our growth has taken place outside of city limits. There is simply not much space available within the city for development unless they tear down something already in existence. They are doing some of that, but future development will be in the outskirts by necessity. We need ROADS. All the planning in the world will not solve our problems. You simply can not plan away the lack of state responsibility infrastructure. The towns in our state that have adequate, or more than adequate infrastructure no longer need it for the most part. I can get from one part of any city in West Virginia to another in 10 minutes... any city but ours. Well, maybe ours and Martinsburg, but our need is greater than theirs.
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