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Voice of the Kansas Sierra Club Kansas Supreme Court Denies Go to page 3 for Table of Contents with active Links Fall - 2013 vol. 37 no. 4 Voice of the Kansas Sierra Club Kansas Supreme Court Denies KDHE Permit for Holcomb II Topeka, Kan. – In a decision that will protect public health and ratepayers, the Kansas Supreme Court has invalidated the air pollution permit granted to Sunflower Electric Power Corp. by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in 2010. The permit must be reconsidered by KDHE, and all current air pollution regulations must be applied. With new standards in effect since the project was first proposed, the outlook for this unneeded coal-fired utility plant is dim. “The proposed Holcomb coal plant is now a fading mirage on the plains,” said Holly Bender, Deputy Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign. “As states embrace renewable energy and utilities are locking in contracts for clean energy at record low prices, there just isn’t a need for the dirty, expensive energy that Sunflower Electric is looking to sell.” file with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, it has no The proposed coal plant in Garden City, KS, also known current need for electricity from the new plant until 2027, as Holcomb II, was the most intensely contested coal plant in making the plant an unnecessary and a risky investment. Kansas history, as well as one of the most controversial permits Sunflower Electric, which would manage and operate the ever considered by KDHE. If built, the new plant would re- plant, still owes the federal government hundreds of millions lease millions of tons of toxic pollution into the atmosphere, of dollars for taxpayer-supported loans taken out to build the including mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon existing coal plant at Holcomb Station. Allowing Sunflower dioxide, and particulate matter. to build yet another coal plant it doesn’t need and can’t afford The power it was expected to generate would belong to is likely to put existing taxpayer support at even greater risk. Colorado-based Tri-State Generation and Transmission As- sociation. According to Tri-State’s recent resource plan, on See Supreme Court on page 8 inside Gov to Farmers: Save water for more hogs! ......... pg 4 KDHE Fails to Enforce Hog Odor Provision ...... pg 5 Sunflowers Are Still a-Bloomin’! ........................ pg 7 Chapter Member Receives National Award ........ pg 8 Can “Free Range” be Sustainable? ................... pg 12 www.kansas.sierraclub.org 1 Back to Table of Contents Sierra Club info Legislative Director Communications Director Chapter Office Zach Pistora, Craig Wolfe Sierra Club, Kansas Chapter 785-865-6503 Planet Kansas Newsletter Editor & c/o Craig Wolfe [email protected] Webmaster 9844 Georgia 913-299-4474 Kansas City, KS 66109-4326 Director of Development [email protected] 913-299-4443 Bob Sommer [email protected] 816-898-1100 Planet Kansas and Website [email protected] Submissions: Send articles, events, outings and National Headquarters Chapter Members Holding updates to Craig Wolfe at Sierra Club National Positions [email protected] 85 Second St., 2nd Floor Yvonne Cather San Francisco, CA 94105-3441 • Chapter-National Relationship Task 415-977-5500 Force • Co-Lead Volunteer on the Chapter Capacity Implementation Team • Co-Lead Volunteer on the Chapter Leadership Training Team www.kansas.sierraclub.org 888-7-SIERRA 2 Fall - 2013 Back to Table of Contents ViewPoint contents Kansas Supreme Court Denies KDHE Cover Permit for Holcomb II Concert for the Climate: ViewPoint: Concert for the Climate: 3 Inspiring... and Wet Inspiring... and Wet Gov to Farmers: Save Water... so I can 4 By Craig Wolfe, Chapter Communications Director bring in a couple million more hogs! By all predictions, the Concert KDHE Fails to Enforce Odor Control 5 for the Climate was heading towards Provision on Massive Hog Operation being one of the most important The Sunflowers Are Still a-Bloomin’! 7 events in the fight against climate Chapter Member Receives National Award 8 change in the Midwest. Then along SC Energy Savings Program Continues to 9 came Mother Nature. You would Aid Residentts and Small Businesses in WYCO think she would behave in her own best interests, but that proved to not Sierra Club Awards Grant to Topeka 10 be the case. Educator The morning and early afternoon of September 28 were rainy, Two Sierrans Make a Trip to Bold 10 drizzly, and cold. But that didn’t stop the true believers, the seekers Nebraska Barn Build who wanted to hear the words of two of our great fighters for a clean, Tune Into KKFI Radio for Environmental 11 renewable energy future. News Bill McKibben, well known author and journalist among envi- Kansas Chapter Strengthens Digital 11 ronmentalists, was his usual effective self. He was personable, honest, Presence with New Website and clear. McKibben was in town for a book signing the night before GasLand Showings 11 at Unity on the Plaza of his book Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist. Ever the activist, he made room in his jetting Can “Free Range” be Sustainable? 12 schedule to speak at the Concert for the Climate before heading off Chapter & Group Leaders 16 to Wichita for another event that Saturday night. General Meetings 17 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who spoke for nearly an hour, had his examples, anecdotes, and consequences lined up neatly and clearly... Sierra Club Outings 18 reciting them without notes. His logic was unshakable. His emo- Committee Meetings 19 tional context was inspiring. He was the consummate advocate for Calendar of All Events 20 reason and sanity as he laid out what we must do now to avoid the unthinkable. Planet Kansas, the official publication of the Kan- If only McKibben and Kennedy were talking to 3,000 rather than sas Chapter of the Sierra Club, is published quarterly. 300. But, our event still won considerable victories in the David Subscription is included in membership dues or is $10 and Goliath battle against climate change. In the Kansas City area, per year. Advertising rates are available upon request at there were over 40 TV and radio segments, articles and interviews [email protected]. We reserve the right to refuse about and with the Concert speakers. Kennedy held court at a special advertising which conflicts with the tastes of our read- Friday night pre-event hosted by t2 Studios in the Crossroads with ers. Contributions of articles, letters to the editor, poems, political and business leaders to explore the topic of renewable energy original cartoons and photos are welcomed. All items must be sent electronically by email to [email protected] and climate change. The issue of climate change made the news in raclub.org or disk to Craig Wolfe, 9844 Georgia, Kansas a way that hadn’t happened before in the Midwest. Chaulk up one City, KS, 66109. We reserve the right to edit for length, for climate change fighters. clarity and taste. The Kansas Chapter of Sierra Club does Climate change is one of those topics of social and political change not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, ethnic origin, re- that requires reaching a tipping point. Like racial equality or women’s ligious creed or sexual orientation. Views expressed herein rights, we need to hear the discussion over and over again. Finally, the reflect the opinions of the authors and are not planet will stop its denying, objecting, and falsifying reality. We will necessarily those of Sierra Club, its staff or come closer and closer to our goal. With most social battles, I think officers. All articles copyright by Kansas Chapter of Sierra Club unless otherwise we know that it is just a matter of time, be it decades or centuries, 3 until our social and spiritual evolution wins the day. indicated and may be reprinted as long as credit is given. Next deadline for See Concert (with photos) on page 14 submissions is December 10. Fall - 2013 Back to Table of Contents features 10 wastewater impoundments from 8 to11 acres each Gov to Farmers: Save in size. Seaboard recently filed plans to increase the capacity of the Ladder Creek complex by 50%. Mr. Rodman visited water... so I can bring in the site before it was stocked with hogs. Assault on the Kansas Corporate Farming Law. a couple million more So in the 2013 legislature, Mr. Rodman introduced a bill to change the corporate farming law, which, according to the hogs! Kansas Farmers Union, has been in place for 80 years and has served the state well. At the committee hearing he failed to By Craig Volland, Kansas Chapter Agriculture Chair mention that the bill would take away the county option to The Aquifer is drying up. The depletion of the High keep out corporate hog factories. But opponents, including Plains Aquifer has been much in the news lately. A recent the Sierra Club, Kansas Farmers Union and the Kansas Rural study by Kansas State University showed that some 30% of the western Kansas portion of the High Plains Aquifer, also referred to as the Ogal- lala Aquifer, has already been pumped out, and another 39% will be depleted over the next 50 years at current rates. Saving water and extend- ing the life of the aquifer has been one of Gov. Brownback’s major themes, and the legislature has passed laws toward this end. But what do the Governor and his point man, Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman, also have in mind? Bring in the Animal Factories! In an August 9, 2013, article by Tim Carpenter of the Topeka Capitol-Journal, Governor Brownback said he wants farmers to switch to hot weather Part of the Seaboard Foods Ladder Creek hog feeding complex crops like milo and cotton that require less ir- in Greeley Co., Kansas.
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