The Department of Energy claimed “emergency” conditions in the Pacific Northwest required TransAlta to continue running Washington [State’s] last coal plant past its planned retirement.
The Department of Energy claimed “emergency” conditions in the Pacific Northwest required TransAlta to continue running Washington [State’s] last coal plant past its planned retirement.
It’d be interesting if some enterprising souls figured out a non-polluting, low-danger way to offline the plant for a significant amount of time. And then did it again. And again. And again. And- well, you get it.
You could, potentially, get in touch with Washington’s Dept of Labor & Industry, and file a complaint about unsafe practices concerning boiler maintenance. Such as you suspect them of trying to avoid using National Board certified welders on ASME vessels.
It might not work, but…
Any pollution taking it down causes would pale in comparison to the pollution the plant would cause.