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TOPEKA — Legislators appear unlikely to block a western Kansas utility's proposal to build three large, coal-fired plants for generating electricity, despite other states opposition and environmentalists' concerns about global warming.
Sunflower Electric Cooperative's coal-fired power plant churns out electricity Friday in Kolcumb. Plans are in the works for the cooperative and several partners to build three more units at the site, increasing energy output at the complex more than seven fold. A bill in the Kansas legislature that would stop the expansion was tabled by the House Energy and Utilities Committee Fidav.
Electric Power Corp. had warned such a delay probably would scuttle its $5 billion-plus project in Finney County, which would increase its generating capacity more than seven times.
A bill imposing a two-year ban on construction of the plants was tabled Friday on a lopsided voice vote by the House Energy and Utilities Committee. Sunflower
BY JOHN HANNA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Coal plant raises concerns
"It's dead."
"People still need to be questioning whether we want coal-fired plants in Kansas that are going to add to global warming."
said Chairman Carl Dean Holmes (R-Liberal). "The bottom line is, it's not coming back up."
Senators also haven't shown much interest.
TOM THOMPSON
Sierra Club lobbyist
"I seriously doubt that will go very far," said Senate Utilities Committee Chairman Jay Emler (R-Lindsee).
The committee's action was good news for Hays-based Sunflower, which serves about 118,000 customers with a single coal-fired plant near Holcomb. With the backing of local officials, the company has touted the project as economic development and made plans to export much of the new power it would generate to Colorado and other states.
The company has asked the state Department of Health and Environment for a permit declaring the project would meet all applicable standards for controlling air pollution. The department is still
The report, issued in Paris, underscored the biggest criticism environmentalists have about Sunflower's proposal; that it will generate greenhouse gases that will contribute significantly to
global warming. They also worry about the potential for increased mercury pollution as a byproduct of burning coal.
"I think this is a case where the people are ahead of the Legislature," said Rep. Vaughn Flora (D-Torpeka) the bill's sponsor, "I sense out there that people really have a different understanding of global warming and climate change than they did just a year ago."
ent planet in a century's time.
The attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin wrote in a December letter to Kansas officials that Sunflower's project would undermine their states' efforts to control emissions of greenhouse gases.
reviewing hundreds, of pages of comments about the project.
"The least we would have expected would have been a discussion of the issues," said Tom Thompson, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club's state chapter "People still need to be questioning whether we want coal
fired plants in Kansas that are going to add to global warming and mercury pollution. $ ^{a} $
Sunflower wants to build three, 700-megawatt generating units next to its 360-megawatt unit near Holcomb and hopes to complete the project in 2013. Local officials believe the project could create 2,000 construction jobs and permanently expand the area's economy.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who's leading the Democratic Governors Association this year and has called for a national energy policy, has sent mixed signals about the Sunflower project.
Rep. Tom Sloan (R-Lawrence) said climate change was a global issue and, "It's got to be addressed on a national and international basis."
In December, her staff said she was considering environmentalists request that she impose a ban on coal-fired plants. But during an interview a few days later, she questioned the feasibility of the state imposing such a ban in the absence of federal standards, suggesting it would merely drive projects into other states.
On Friday, her staff declined to comment on the committee's action.
The company also contends that many of the project's critics are overstating the potential environmental effects of the new units. For one thing, Miller said, the technology for controlling emissions has improved significantly.
And lobbyists for other utilities said a moratorium on coal-fired plants is a bad policy with Kansans demands for energy expected to keep increasing.
"The utilities have to make a decision today about meeting firm needs 10 or 20 years out," said Westar Energy's Jim Ludwig. "If you simply shut down the process, there's a serious question as to what sort of generation is going to be put in place."
》 STATE EDUCATION
Mandatory grade may lower
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TOPEKA — Educators say kindergarten has become so important to the development of children that it's time for the state to make attendance mandatory.
A bill sponsored by Sen. Laura Kelly (D-Topeka) and Sen. Jean Schodorf (R-Wichita) would do just that.
The mandatory school at tendance in Kansas is seven, and kindergarten is optional. The senators' bill would lower the mandatory age to six and require children to attend at least half day kindergarten.
dation. Without it, first-grade test scores are a struggle."
A bearing is scheduled for Thursday before the Senate Education Committee, of which Schodorf is chairwoman.
"Kindergarten used to be just total socialization," Topeka teacher Nancy Armstrong told Kelly during a meeting of educators. "That is changed. Kindergarten is the foun-
Kindergarten is an opportune time to begin closing academic gaps, Schoolof said. At Quincy Elementary School where Armstrong teaches kindergarten some
"We, as a state, we, as families, invest so much in early childhood education, to have a loophole in our laws that undermines our ini-
half-day kindergarten.
new students arrive with the ability to read simple text, while others don't appear like they have ever held a pencil.
tial investments makes no sense;" Kelly said.
NANCY ARMSTRONG
Topeka Teacher
"If a child has never attended school, or an organized preschool, that first day of first grade is a shocker."
"If a child has never attended school, or an organized preschool,
Kelly said the proposed legislation wouldn't affect that many people — perhaps several hundred, at the most — who would otherwise wait to send their children to school in first grade.
Mark Tallman, assistant executive director for advocacy at the Kansas Association of School Boards, said he was in favor of anything that improved attendance at all levels of education, including kindergarten.
"The problem is we don't require people to go to school, for all practical purposes," he said, noting that the measure also would address questions of attendance among home-schooled students.
that first day of first grade is a shocker' Armstrong said.
Kelly said the measure wouldn't impose significant new costs to the state or schools because no additional classrooms or teachers would be needed.
She also said making kindergarten mandatory would improve attendance among some students whose parents don't get them to class consistently.
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