Wisconsin Utilities Reach $105 Million Settlement with Environmentalists. By Thomas Content, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 6, 2008. "Three Wisconsin utilities and two environmental groups have agreed to a $105 million settlement designed to improve water quality in Lake Michigan and move the state toward increasing its supplies of renewable energy. Under the settlement, We Energies of Milwaukee has also agreed to shut down by 2012 two older boilers at its Presque Isle coal-fired power plant in Marquetteand… build a 50-megawatt biomass-to-energy plant... The… settlement was announced by We Energies, Clean Wisconsin and the Sierra Club. Also participating are Wisconsin Public Power and Madison Gas & Electric, the co-owners of the $2.3 billion coal-fired power plant under construction in Oak Creek.Under the agreement, the environmental groups have agreed to stop their litigation opposing construction of the water intake system that We Energies will deploy to draw 1.8 billions of gallons of Lake Michigan water per day for cooling at the new power plant.The pact gives the utility certainty that the plant can open without We Energies and its partners having to build costly cooling towers."
2008-08-07
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