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Articles and Opinion Pieces Related to the UW/MG&E Power Plant:

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Articles and Links Related to Energy and Power Issues

11-21-03 Cap Times - Energy Bill Foes Block Final Vote

11-20-03 WSJ - Obey Says Energy Bill Affects Siting Of Transmission Line

11-20-03 Cap Times - Obey Blasts Fed Power In Energy Bill

11-19-03 WSJ - Wisconsin Fighting Epa Pollution Rule

11-19-03 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - FirstEnergy Blamed for Blackout in Report

11-18-03 Cap Times - Lawsuits Filed Over Oak Creek Plants

11-18-03 Cap Times - States Sue Over Epa Changes

11-17-03 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Two lawsuits are filed over power plant approval.
Payments are a concern for Oak Creek; pollution claims spur S.C. Johnson

11-16-03 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Fond du Lac County farmers look to the sky for newest crop: State to become a leading wind energy producer

11-15-03 WSJ - Groups Sue Over Oak Creek Plants

11-15-03 WSJ - Power Grid Gets Winter Ok

11-14-03 WSJ - WPL To Raise Rates 1.5 Percent The Utility Company Had Requested An Increase Of 10.8 Percent For Electricity

11-14-03 Cap Times - WPL Denied Big Rate Hike

11-14-03 Cap Times - An Assault On The State

11-11-03 Cap Times - Coal Power Plants Ok'd For Oak Creek

11-08-03 Cap Times - Cub Vows To Fight Nuclear Plant Sale

11-08-03 WSJ - Two State Utilities Plan To Sell Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant

11-07-03 Cap Times - Kewaunee Nuke Power Plant Sold

11-05-03 WSJ - Lawmaker Wants Uw Employees Off Boards Where Conflict May Arise

11-04-03 Cap Times - Energy Firms, Foes Wage Power Fight Via Ads Plants, Transmission Line Fuel Battle

10-30-03 Cap Times - PSC Backs Two Oak Creek Plants

10-30-03 WSJ - PSC Approves Coal Power Plants Wisconsin Energy Plans Two Plants In Oak Creek

10-29-03 Cap Times - Alliant Faces Clean Water Lawsuit

10-29-03 Cap Times - Nuke Power Still Bad Option

10-28-03 Cap Times - Warnings About Nuclear Power Are Overblown

10-23-03 WSJ - Speaker Defends Nuclear Power - UW Medical School Associate Dean, At A Conference On Nuclear Energy, Says It's Safe.

10-22-03 WSJ - Wisconsin Should Rejoin Nuclear Club

Milwaukee Business Journal Calpine starts construction of power plant in Kaukauna

10-21-03 WSJ - UW Nuke Backers Ruffle Feathers In Nevada

10-20-03 WSJ - Forum foresees future of electrical power

10-20-03 WSJ - Coal-plant Opponents Step Up Efforts

10-20-03 Cap Times - Nuclear Moratorium Important To Protect Public

10-19-03 WSJ - Rethinking Reactors - End Nuclear Moratorium

10-10-03 WSJ - State Files Suit Against Power Plant

10-10-03 Cap Times - State Brings Pollution Suit Against Utility

10-08-03 Cap Times - State Should End Moratorium On New Nuclear Plants

10-08-03 WSJ - Battling Air Pollution - The Potawatomi Have The Power To Set Rigorous Air Standards To Protect The Forest On Their Reservation.

10-02-03 WSJ - Green Groups Sue To Block Settlement - They Say The $600 Million Settlement Does Little To Curb Air Pollution From We Energies' Plants.

10-26-03 WSJ - Fund To Back Nuclear Power Conference

9-21-03 WSJ - Billionaire Businessman Opposes Coal Plants

9-18-03 - Cap Times - Hundreds Lobby For Coal-fired Power Plants

9-18-03 - Cap Times - Pep Rally' For Nuke Power?

9-17-03 - WSJ - Study Assails Gas-fired Plant Plan

9-12-03 - Cap Times - Columbia Woes May Cost Alliant: PSC Will Zero In On Troubled Power Plant

9-12-03 - WSJ - Experts Worried About Power Grid Hackers: System Is Seen As Becoming More Vulnerable Due To Technology Upgrades.

9-10-03 - Cap Times - State Power System Needs $2.8b Update

8-30-03 WSJ-Report Details Columbia Outages
PSC: Different Choices May Have Prevented Them

8-30-03 WSJ- Madison's Big Blackout Was Not A Big Deal

8-28-03 WSJ-Epa Eases Tough Pollution Guidelines
Agency Officials And Environmentalists Disagree Over Whether Pollution Will Increase.

8-27-03 Cap Times - Natural Gas Is A Dirty Fuel

8-26-03 Cap Times-Why Isn't State A Model Of Energy Independence?

8-26-03 Cap Times-Spending More Won't Guarantee Power

8-26-03 WSJ-Midwest An Ongoing Concern - Reliability Questions Had Been Raised For Months.

8-26-03 WSJ-Report Rips Epa's Research For Easing Air Pollution Rules

8-24-03 WSJ-State Must Improve Its Electrical Grid

8-22-03 WSJ-State Electric System On Yellow Alert For 4th Day

8-21-03 Cap Times - Power Use Hits Record - Thunderstorms, Not Heat, Cause Some Outages In Area

8-21-03 WSJ-Columbia Power Plant Returns To Full Service

8-20-03 WSJ-Doyle Wants Faster Improvements On State's Power Lines

8-19-03 Cap Times-Gov Aims To Avoid Blackout

8-19-03 Cap Times-Utilities May Need Government

8-19-03 WSJ-Part Of Power Plant Has Outage
Leaking Steam Tubes At Columbia Power Plant Play Role In Psc Issuing Yellow Alert

8-19-03 Cap Times-Blackouts & Deregulation

8-18-03 CAp Times-Power Troubles Coming To Wis.?

8-18-03 Cap Times-Lawmaker To Introduce `Electrical Bill Of Rights'

8-17-03 WSJ-Don't Leave Wisconsin In The Dark

8-16-03 Cap Times-Mayor Forming Energy Task Force Here

8-16-03 WSJ-Wisconsin Checks Up On Its Power Vulnerability

8-16-03 Cap Times-Doyle Asks For Probe Of Blackout Impact On Wis

8-15-03 WSJ-Nation's Energy Needs Demand Bolder Action
The Energy Bill Emerging From Congress Is An Expensive Disappointment.

8-15-03 WSJ U.S. Power Grid Described As A Disaster Waiting To Happen

8-15-03 Cap Times-A Wake-up For Fragile' State System

8-15-03 WSJ-Power System Is A Spider Web

8-15-03 WSJ-Wisconsin Better Beef Up Its Power Grid, Industry Says

8-14-03 Energy Pulse-Renewables: Winds of Change

8-11-03 Cap Times-Gas, Coal Plants Have Problems; It's Time To Rethink Nuclear Energy

8-9-03 Cap Times-Energy Bill In Congress Serves None But Polluters' Interests

8-7-03 Cap Times-Coal Burning In Wisconsin Needs To Be Reduced

8-4-03 Cap Times-Energy Bill Is Bad For Wisconsin

8-1-03 WSJ-Point Beach Plant Faces Rare Performance Review

8-1-03 Cap Times-Point Beach Reactors Under New Scrutiny

7-31-03 Cap Times-Threat From Coal-burning Power Plants Is Serious

7-29-03 WSJ-We Energies Signs For Wind Energy

7-27-03 WSJ-Nuclear Plant Back At Full Power

7-23-03 Cap Times-Firm Proposes State's Biggest Wind Farm

7-17-03 WSJ Law Is Small But Important Step Toward Energy Reliability

7-16-03 WSJ Doyle Signs Bill That Promotes Power Plants

7-15-03 WSJ Alliant Verdict Not Overturned

7-14-03 Cap Times Hydrogen's Potential Is Big

7-10-03 Alliant-WP&L Supports Utility-run Energy Efficiency Programs

7-10-03 WSJ Power Line Route

7-6-03 WSJ Give Power Grid Expansion A Green Light The Planned Expansion Of The Electric Power Transmission Network In South-central And Southwestern Wisconsin Deserves Support.

7-3-03 WSJ We Energies Seeks Rate Increase Utility Says It Needs Money For New Power Plant

6-27-03 WSJ - Gas Shortage To Have Broad Impact

6-26-03 WSJ Board Backs Mercury Emissions Cut
Rules Would Apply To Coal-fired Plants Of State's Largest Utilities

6-25-03 Cap Times - Stray Voltage Verdict Upheld

6-24-03 Cap Times - Midwest Power Grid Firm In $1.3b Expansion

6-26-03 WSJ - Power Plant Progress

6-19-03 WSJ - Clean Air A Matter Of Life And Breath

June 16, 2003 New York Times - Short Supply of Natural Gas Raises Economic Worries

June 6, 2003 Capital Times - Ethanol Central To U.s. Energy Bill

June 6, 2003 Capital Times - Winds Of Change May Blow Renewable Energy's Cost Benefits Touted

June 6 2003 WSJ - Senate Gives Ethanol Plan A Boost In Blending Gasoline, Its Use Would Be Doubled

June 3, 2003 Capital Times - Power Plant Woes Sparks Electric Debate

May 30, 2003 WSJ - Coal Already Dominates Fuel Mix

May 30, 2003 WSJ - Debate Over Coal Power Plants Is Running Hotter In Wisconsin

May 30, 2003 WSJ - Coal Would Help Keep Rates Low

May 30, 2003 WSJ - State Applauds Federal Ruling On Alliant Suit

May 30, 2003 Cap Times - Alliant Loses State Law Challenge

May 30, 2003 WSJ - Coal Project Doesn't Make Sense

4-8-03 Reuters News Service: High U.S. natural gas prices idle new power plants

4-08-03 Reuters News Service: High U.S. natural gas prices idle new power plants

2-11-03 Capital Times: Rockgen plant recent explosion and fire

4-11-01 Capital Times: Noises of Rockgen: Rattles and rolls

The following link describes noise mitigation for a co-gen plant with
two LM6000 turbines like the 150 MW MGE plant. Raises concerns with current 150MW proposal.
http://www.atconoise.com/mediaroom/mediaroom_tech_northland.htm