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Show HERALD DAILY Sunday, September 9, 2007 B11 Nevada Environmental panel won't block coal plants ASSOCIATED THE PRESS CARSON CITY, Nev The Nevada Environmental Commission has rejected a petition from seven environmental groups trying to stop three companies from constructing coal-fire- d power plants unless they control carbon dioxide emissions. But commissioners also voted Friday to require the state Division of Environ- power plants would send 48 million tons of carbon dioxide into the sky during their ex- lifetimes. pected "Look at the impacts if you do nothing," Benjamin said. "We are urging you to take 75-ye- ar n today." Because Nevada has no regulation controlling greenhouse gas emissions, Benjamin said companies are being enticed to construct on-spewing power plants that will generate electricity Lincoln counties because of the pollution they would produce. Reid, suggested that the money for new coal plants could be used instead to install solar energy units on hundreds of thousands of homes in Nevada. Gov. Jim Gibbons opposed the move by the environmental groups, saying it wasn't fair to stop the plants when they already "have invested years and millions of dollars in facility design and the permitting Bristlecone Alliance. The petition followed US. Senate Majority Leader Harry iReid's recent statement that he opposes coal-fire-d plants proposed for White Pine and polluti- mental Protection to draw up "memorandums of understanding" requiring the companies to capture carbon dioxide once the technology becomes com- for residents elsewhere. Besides Western Resource, other groups that petitioned included the Nevada Conservation League, Sierra Club, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Citizen Alert, Nevadans for Clean Affordable Reliable Energy and the two process. Representatives from the attorney general's office said the Environmental Commission lacked the legal authority to suspend the issuing of permits to allow the companies to construct the power plants. The companies have been given permits to begin work on initial stages of the plants. Sierra Pacific Resources, the parent company of Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co., wants to construct . coal-fire- d electrical generating plants in the White Pine County town of McGill. The first plants might be completed by 2012. LS Power Associates wants to construct three plants near McGill, the first of which might open in 2011. Sithe Global Power wants to construct a 750 rnegawatt plant in southern Lincoln County, near Mesquite. mercially available. Representatives from Si- erra Pacific Resources, LS VenTOilwireless ; Power Associates and Sithe Global Power testified that the technology to capture carbon dioxide won't be available at a reasonable price until at least 2017. 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