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Finishline42

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3. The reason LG&E closed the coal fired plant

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 06:11 PM

Apr 2020

They ran out of places to store the coal ash. If you drive by on Greenbelt Hwy it's piled 100 ft high on the banks of the Ohio River.

It was also a lot older and needed a lot of work to make it compliant to current pollution standards.

BTW, the Mill Creek power plant is about 10 miles due South.

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The reason LG&E closed the coal fired plant Finishline42 Apr 2020 #3