Fwd: Join the next CRC call: Coal: The beginning of the end?

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Dr. Michael D. McDonald
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> From: Andrea Weber <aweber@biologicaldiversity.org>
> Date: February 6, 2015 at 3:28:51 PM EST
> To: michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com
> Subject: Join the next CRC call: Coal: The beginning of the end?
> Reply-To: aweber@biologicaldiversity.org
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> Dear Friends,
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> Join the Climate Reality Check Network for our next call on Thursday, February 12th, at 3 pm ET/2 pm Central/1 pm Mountain and 12 noon/Pacific. We are pleased to have Leslie Glustrom and Zane Selvans from Clean Energy Action lead the discussion on our call: Coal: The beginning of the end?
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> Leslie and Zane have been at the forefront of pushing for progressive electricity policy in Colorado – and around the country -- for many years. View their reports on coal costs and supply.
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> RSVP for the call - Even if you can’t make it on the 12th, register to receive a recording of the call.
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> This is the second in our new series called, Pulling Back the Curtain on Dirty Energy. ICYMI Listen to last month’s call: The Shale Bubble.
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> Not only is coal fired power the single largest source of carbon pollution fueling irreversible climate disruption, but it is also becoming uneconomical and even harder to sustain. Our presenters will delve into the failing economics of coal including walking you through how to find specific coal data for your state, utilities and power plants.
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> The call will also address questions such as:
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> Why it’s so important to address coal-fired power’s role in the climate crisis
> Trends in coal prices by state for the last decade, and Clean Energy Action’s report with details and charts for each state
> Coal supply issues for coal plants of interest--the mines, the geology, the factors driving production cost up
> Hidden coal subsidies such as sweetheart leasing deals, failure to include real costs
> Financial status of the US coal industry, and it is largely about geology--not politics or regulation
> The imperative of planning to move beyond coal--independent of climate change concerns or EPA regs etc.
> Please RSVP and submit questions in advance here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YXKHE44cY4F92c3339az9S3yzNzcFzMtHdETAODBbY/viewform
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> The call-in number is 209-647-1600 Code 615986.
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> If you have any questions please contact Allison Fisher, Public Citizen, afisher@citizen.org. To be removed from this list, please email Allison as well. Thank you!
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> About our presenters:
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> Leslie Glustrom
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> Leslie Glustrom resigned from her biochemistry research job in 2004 to work full time on climate change as a volunteer. Since coal was the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, she made it her business to know a lot about the coal industry. She has written several extensively referenced reports on coal cost and supply issues and the faulty reporting of coal "reserves" by the US Energy Information Administration. The reports are available for free download from http://cleanenergyaction.org/research-reports/ .
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> Leslie has spoken all over the country about coal cost and supply issues and is passionate about empowering others so they can help prevent large expenditures on old coal plants that are likely to become stranded assets in the not-too-distant future.
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> Zane Selvans
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> In the course of his PhD in Planetary Geophysics at CU Boulder and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (working mostly on worlds other than Earth), Zane learned enough about atmospheric physics and Earth's unstable climate history to make climate advocacy his priority after receiving his degree. Since getting involved with the City of Boulder's bid to create a public municipal utility focused on clean energy and climate action in 2011, Zane has been working with Clean Energy Action on statewide utility regulation and climate policy issues, especially on carbon pricing for Colorado, ratepayer risk allocation within the existing regulated monopoly utility business model, and the issue of discounting future fossil fuel costs to the point where they are unimportant in our resource planning.
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> Talk to you next week!
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> Allison, Nancy and Ted
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> CRC Movement Building Call Team
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