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Show B-9 The Park Record /edmiurs/Fri, November 2-4, 2005 California seeks cleaner power SALT LAKE CITY (AP) California is looking for cleaner sources of power than coal-fired t-power plants in Utah, leaving those ; suppliers to find other markets. California's Public Utilities Commission recently announced plans to impose new standards for/ carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions for investor-owned utilities in California, which purchases about 20 percent of its power from plants in other states, including Utah. Reed Searle, general manager of t the Intermountain Power Agency plant in Delta, said the California policy could affect future power development because "no coal-fired plant can meet the terms and conditionsfroman economic standpoint." Last year, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power withdrew its participation in IPP's 900 megawatt expansion. ThenMayor James Hahn decided instead to invest the city's $400 million to develop renewable energy resources. Searle said that California owns 75 percent of the 1,800 megawatts IPP's first two units now generate. Intermountain Power is proceeding with plans to build a third unit because 100 percent of the rights to its 900 megawatts have been sold to municipal power agencies and PacifiCorp. James Kennon of Sevier County Citizens for Clean Air & Water said his group is watching to see how the California decision affects construction of a coal-fired power plant near Sigurd. Nevco, a Nevada corporation with headquarters in Bountiful and the parent of Sevier Power, plans to sell power from the plant on the open market. The $350 million plant would burn about 940,000 tons of coal per year Kennon has said that thousands of county residents oppose the plant because its emissions would harm public health. Kennon contends the plant was likely to sell all of its power to California. However, Nevco spokesman Bruce Taylor said California is not the only potential buyer, and Utah is growing so fast that all of the power could .be sold within the Beehive State. CUSTOM New C o n s t r u c t i o n or R e m o d e l Couple builds green above Glenwild Continued from B-7 have also decided to "go green" by using ICFs themselves. To learn ' more about the process Nancy and Mike Garbett have also been helping the Behns with their home. ' While many days at work the only other creatures the Behns come in contact with are moose and deer, they say they owe a lot to green construction experLs like Recycle Utah and The Green Building Center in Salt Lake, and friends in the community. Part of the process of building the home you like on your own is knowing your limits what you can do and what you can't. "We've had a tremendous amount of support from people in the community - so many people are involved in the planning and building of this home," Pam agreed. "People seem to be excited and fascinated about [green building] when they sec our house. I guess my hope is that building this house will encourage more passive solar structures to be built. Utah is the perfect place to do it the climate is ideal." Oaldev ley nurse returnsfrommission to Belarus • Continued from B-7 it actually was," she explained. "The hospital equipment is state-ofthe-art yet they recycle syringes, run out of soap and they typically don't know how to use the machines. It really forced me to sharpen my skills." A nurse at Primary Children's Hospital, Clingan heard about the International Children's .Heart Foundation's medical missions from a coworker who had gone to Sudan. The International Children's leart Foundation goes to 16 hospiI'tals on six continents annually to mitigate the damaging effects of heart disease in developing nations. Clingan was one of 17 volunteers on the trip from Britain, (panada and The United States. The' foundation reports one percent of children are bom with heart disease, making it the No. 1 congenital birth defect. In Belarus, the central concern is the lifetime exposure to radiation from Chernobyl's nuclear reactor explosion in 1986. Belarusian parents are afraid to allow their children to have x-rays. Typically, patients who will be operated on Llir; have two to three x-rays a day during pre-op and recovery days, but Clingan says Belarusian children only had x-rays two to three times a year at most. Clingan estimates that though the Chernobyl nuclear explosion only released three percent of its radiation, in nearly 99 percent of Belarus, high-count radiation continues to linger. The children Clingan saw on her trip not only have parents who were exposed at the height of the explosion, but are continuously exposed themselves, she noted. "I asked a physician who had gone on the mission six times whether she was concerned about the radiation, and she said she wasn't since the danger was really prolonged exposure," she said. According to the heart foundation, a baby from a developing country bom with congenital heart failure usually goes undiagnosed< and parents don't notice until the child begins to have difficulty eating and growing. And even if a child is diagnosed, doctors don't necessarily have the resources to help, and end up telling parents they will need to go to another country to get help. Once Belarus' minister of health notified the country of the mission's October arrival, 100 parents from across the country camped out in the surgery center. Most had ongoing congenital heart failure, but had only had one surgery as a baby that was intended only for a few years, said Clingan. The mission only had time for 20 of those children who came to the hospital. "The kids were really skinny and malnourished," Clingan explained. "There was a boy who had surgery when he was four months old and now he's eight. Parents just don't know that the first operation is just a temporary fix.'1 Part of the challenge of the mission was the language barrier. Though 20 year-old language students from Belarus helped volunteers communicate with hospital staff and children, they often didn't know medical terms, Clingan said. "Supplies and medications in the medical cabinets were in Russian, which made it hard to assemble supplies afterwards" she said. Clingan's description of Belarus may seem bleak, but as she talks about Minsk, she punctuates her memories with smiles. She remembers seeing dilapidated housing outside the city limits, but she also remembers how the women "dressed to the nines" who proudly sported high heels on 36-hour shifts and the cousins, sisters, mothers and fathers who accompanied children at the hospital. 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