ccs kemper clean coal

premature? nope defunct<div>
</div><div>=</div><div>imploded 10/21 7-9? billion? converted to nat gas; grist roberts careful to say we need ccs
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</div><div>=</div><div>The National Black Chamber of Commerce is a proponent of coal power and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fracking" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hydraulic fracturing (fracking)</a>, as NBCC President/CEO Harry Alford revealed in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630193238/http://kemperproject.org/about-us-national-black-chamber-of-commerce/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">column supporting the Kemper power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s2" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">[2]</a></div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div>=<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/08/08/southern-company-fraud-allegations-kemper-clean-coal-project" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/08/08/southern-company-fraud-allegations-kemper-clean-coal-project</a>Southern Co. is accused of fraudulently misrepresenting the prospects for its troubled “clean coal” project in Kemper County, Mississippi in several legal filings this summer.Southern <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/28/breaking-southern-co-officially-yanks-plug-kemper-clean-coal-power-plant-warns-it-may-recognize-loss-3-4-billion" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">announced</a> in late July that it was shuttering the troubled “clean coal” part of Kemper after construction ran years behind schedule and the company spent $7.5 billion on the 582 megawatt power plant — over $5 billion more than it first projected.In a lawsuit filed today, Brett Wingo, a former Southern Company engineer, <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/national-business/article166066147.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">alleges</a> he warned the company's top executives that it would not be possible to meet key construction deadlines. Management responded by retaliating against him, the complaint asserts, and Southern continued to assure investors and the public that Kemper's schedule and budget targets would be met, then blamed unpredictable factors like the weather when those goals were missed.Wingo’s claim that Southern misled investors by concealing construction-related problems drew national attention in a front page New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/science/kemper-coal-mississippi.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">investigation</a> last year. In January, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) concluded that Wingo had suffered a “continuing pattern of retaliatory treatment” and ordered Southern to reinstate Wingo, but the company has refused, according to a <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/doyle-llp-whistleblower-in-kemper-project-sues-southern-company-and-ceo-300501496.html?tc=eml_cleartime" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">statement</a> accompanying the lawsuit. (The case is “Brett Wingo v. The Southern Company, et al.,” Case No. 2:17-cv-01328-MHH in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division.)A second less-noticed legal filing with Mississippi state regulators accuses Southern of misrepresenting Kemper's prospects right from the outset, before construction even began. Those claims center on Southern's projections for what it would cost to operate and maintain the plant once it was up and running, which the filing asserts were so low they were “indefensible”.In an email to DeSmog, Wingo seconds those claims, saying that he believes management knew back in 2012 that its “operation and maintenance” (O&M) projections were off — but kept the accurate numbers under wraps for years.“By hiding the true O& M costs for so long, apparently since 2012 and likely longer, Fanning basically ensured shareholders would be forced to absorb $6 billion in losses,” Wingo told DeSmog.“In 2012, sunk costs on Kemper were only around $1 billion and the natural gas part of the plant substantially complete. It would have been a perfect time to stop a runaway train from running off the end of the tracks,” he added. “But history shows, that’s not what Fanning and Southern Company chose to do.”
a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant, saying they will refuse to ask utility customers to pay anything for Kemper's non-functional multi-billion dollar “clean coal” gasification technology and will re-designate the plant as a natural gas facility.In a <a href="http://www.psc.state.ms.us/mpsc/press%20releases/2017/Joint%20Press%20Kemper%20Stipulation%20Docket%206.21.17.pdf" title="joint press release" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">joint press release</a> explaining their unanimous decision, the three Mississippi Public Service commissioners said they seek a solution that “eliminates ratepayer risk for unproven technology and assures no rate increase to Mississippi Power customers,” and that they want Mississippi Power, the Southern Company subsidiary that built Kemper, to consider rolling back existing rates.“I think it's high time we finally turn the corner on this project and also strongly protect our ratepayers, who should only have to pay for what actually delivers electricity,” said PSC chairman Brandon Presley in an interview. Presley was, until recently, the lone opponent of a bloated, runaway project that saw costs jump from $2.3 billion in 2010 when work began to $7.5 billion now. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/21/mississippi-regulators-veto-any-more-money-southern-company-s-kemper-clean-coal-plant-stunning-vote" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Read more</a></div><div>==</div></div>