Shitstain Defends 50-Year Old TVA Coal Plant: Bob Murray Sells The Coal The Plant Uses
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Trump's tweet arrived just days before TVA's board could vote on the fate of its Paradise coal-fired power plant in Kentucky, a facility that is almost 5 decades old and obtained the bulk of its coal in 2017 from a mine in Muhlenberg County, Ky., operated by Murray, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
TVA in a response to Trump tweeted, "Mr. President, coal is an important part of TVA's power generation mix and we will give serious consideration to all factors as we make this decision."
Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., is a staunch supporter of the president who has lobbied the administration for months to offer financial or policy lifelines to a slew of struggling coal plants. While those efforts — mainly driven through the Department of Energy — have so far failed, some expect the policy to be resuscitated given that Trump vowed to revive coal on the campaign trail.
TVA will also recommend to its board that it close the Bull Run plant in Tennessee. Both Bull Run and Paradise are single-unit coal plants, but TVA now operates a new natural gas combined-cycle plant at the Paradise site. The results follow an environmental assessment, which TVA must do under the National Environmental Policy Act. But TVA also reviewed the plants' economics, transmission reliability and fuel supply, spokesman Jim Hopson said.
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