[Hoot Gibson]

It doesn't why not just put scrubbers in the plants and keep the jobs here instead of WV

Could it be GREED ?

They put scrubbers in the Mitchel plant why not put them in the big sandy plant

Instead of KY power customers paying for a half of a plant in WV

But if you was a business man would you want to operate 1 plant or 3 plants?

The coal-fired units at the Big Sandy plant were not dismantled because of high sulfur coal. The low sulfur content of most eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia coal is their competitive advantage. Coal seams being mined in the high sulfur coal reserves in areas like northern WV and western KY generally occur in thicker seams, which is their competitive advantage.

Coal seams being strip mined in Wyoming's Powder River basin are generally very low in sulfur, but are also very low in BTU content and high in moisture - but the seams tend to be much thicker and cheaper to mine than the coal remaining east of the Mississippi. Higher transportation costs are all that is keeping western coal from dominating the U.S. coal market even more than it does already.

The Big Sandy plant in Louisa was a casualty of Obama's war on coal.