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Keenan, said. "The next big That llflU report 1.."Ol1.....W"'...... ......."'......... .- -. -. step wUl be 10 generate gas a Deparlment of Health, Educa-\WOUld range from $6O,OOO"tb ~rom coal and then to liquefy it tion and Welfare study on air $125,000 per mile, according to mto petroleum products. pollution control that said such the bureau. "The coal industry Is on a equipment was available. Em'iromnental s t u die 5 for very stable base," he said. The National Academy of transmission lines as well as KEY CO;\CER~S Science and the National Aca- power plant studies are te- Environmental awareness Is demy of Engineers has also ad- quired by the Environmental a key factor in meeting power vised en~'ironmentalists certain Protection Act. demands from a growing popu. processes to meet air quality Besides meeting the needs 18tioo. Water development proj- standards haven't yet been de- created by population growth in eels. air pollution controls, coal veloped, especially for large Colorado. the additional elec- strip mining operations, water plants. tricity is ~ing used for pumP! pollution control, high power DEBATE L"SDERWAY in irrigated fanning, for air I tr.ansmission lines and coal ash Dr. Gerald P. wood Colorado CQnditioning. and (or industry, disposal are matters of prime air pollution control ~hief. said where an electric machine is c~c~r?, . the state is now "debating high- cheaper than manpower., ~e re takmg the problem of ly restrictive regulations to Char,les F. Lu~, preslden~ of env.U'O~~.nt ~d ecology ve;y limit the environmental impact. Consohdat~ Edison Co.: .New ~rlousl), sa~d Bugas, ?uUm- We don't want to get into the Y?rk. chalrttl.an. of the NatJonal rng Colorado-Ute plans to IOstall situation of generating the Waler Commission. recently ob. ~e best equipment available on power and having to live with serv.ed that even with zero, pop- Its present and proposed plants, the pollution." ulallO~ gro'o\th the national lJ.11e of the difficullies, ex- He believes the 99.5 per cent ~lectrlc load would continue to plamoo B~as an~ R~lph Sar- air cleaning efficiency of power l~crease about 8 per cent per t gent, Public Service vICe pres... plants, if demanded can be ob- ~ear. _ ident, is that power plants are tained. "But I don,'t think it'll The Bureau o! the CeJ'lSUS last planned four, six, eight and 10 come until it's forced by regu. yea r deterttlmed residential years in advance, lation " he said uses of power was ttivided into STA.'I;'DARDS C1IA.'",GE The' Air p~nutlon Control. 33 per cent re~idential, 22 per Yet. environmental standards Commission is concerned about cent comm~rclal and 45 per for air. noise and water poilu.. increasing air pollution from ce~t lnd~stn~!. .. tion have been changing fre- coal fueled power plants. To I be1Le~e, LUc.e said, ... quenUy and in some cases the avoi~ filling valleys with COOl- that a natJOnal ~I:CY of ~lectrlc technical ability to meet the en- bustJon gases necessitates a energy conser.. ~.tlOn WIll be- vironmental protection levels great deal of planning on co~~ ne~ssa!'Y' ld doesn't exist. weather. engineering and other sho~~ra 0, II wbeou ~dPpe~r, In an environmental study for factors, he said. ev~n now conSI ertng the proposed Huntington 'Can-- Wood said he doesn'llike the such a policy. yon power plant which has a het that po.....er for other states 430,ooo..kilowaU unit. under con- is generated in Colorado and sideration in eentral Utah, the the Colorado taxpayer is left Tennessee Valley Authority ad- with the elq>Cnsive job of doing vised: "We have no knowledge somethmg about pollution con- of precipitator manufacturers trol. whn can supply equipment to ;-.;E:W LL~E SEt:DED N!move 99.5 per cent of the fly The demand for power Is also ash in power generating facUl. going to mean an additional ties, particularly where the bigh-voltage transmission line sulphur content of coal Is ,5 per across the Continental Divide in cent. , ." Colorado, probably in northern ZfF! CODE G- . -- 1\'7 ~