Western Fuels Association
{{#Badges: CoalSwarm}} The Western Fuels Association states on its website that it is "a not-for profit cooperative that supplies coal and transportation services to consumer-owned electric utilities throughout the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions" [1], including the Sunflower Electric Power Corporation. Two members of its board are Sunflower's chief executive officer, Earl Watkins, and the Sunflower's board chairman. Sunflower's partner in the Holcomb expansion, a Colorado co-op, also has members on the board. [2]
The Association founded the Greening Earth Society in 1997 , according to a archived version of the Society's website, "as a vehicle for advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use."[3]
According to a March 30, 2008 article in the Kansas City Star, Western Fuels and its director Fred Palmer targeted a message to farmers, small-town officials and rural legislators in the 1990s to promote the idea that considerable doubt existed about the effect of carbon dioxide on global warming. Palmer is now a senior vice president at Peabody Energy, , which partnered with Sunflower in 2007 to buy pro-coal newspaper ads featuring Chavez, Ahmadinejad and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, warning that Kansas would have to import natural gas from Venezuela, Iran and Russia if no new coal plants were built.[4]
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Contact Information
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
1100 W. 116th Avenue
Westminster, CO 80234
Phone: (303) 254-3070
Fax: (303) 254-3079
Email: wfa@westernfuels.org
Website: http://westernfuels.org
Contact: Duane Richards, CEO
WYOMING OPERATIONS
2201 S. Douglas Highway, #130
Gillette, WY 82718
Phone: (307) 682-8051
Fax: (307) 686-6355
Contact: Meri Reidt, Manager of Coal Transportation
DRY FORK MINE
P.O. BOX 1809
Gillette, WY 82717
Phone: (307) 682-2839
Fax: (307) 682-6468
Contact: Brad Hanson, General Manager
NEW HORIZON MINE
P.O. Box 628
Nucla, CO 81424
Phone: (970) 864-2165
Fax: (970) 864-2168
Contact: Lance Wade, Mine Manager
ESCALANTE-WESTERN RAILWAY
P.O. Box 552
Prewitt, NM 87045
Phone: (505) 876-2270
Fax: (505) 876-2279
Contact: David Soros, General Foreman
CORPORATE COUNSEL
Sherard, Sherard & Johnson
P.O. Box 69
Wheatland, WY 82201
Phone: (307)322-2107
Contact: Rex Johnson
Articles and Resources
Karen Dillon and David Klepper, "Lots of cash behind coal plant clash," The Kansas City (MO) Star March 30, 2008.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Global Warming Cost website
- Greening Earth Society
- Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
- Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
- Richard S. Lindzen
- Smith & Harroff
- David E. Wojick
- American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
- Headquarters of U.S. coal mining companies
References
- ↑ Western Fuels Association Homepage, Western Fuels Association website, accessed February 26, 2009.
- ↑ "Lots of cash behind coal plant clash," Karen Dillon and David Klepper, The Kansas City (MO) Star March 30, 2008.
- ↑ "Join GES", Greening Earth Society website, archived from March 2005.
- ↑ "Lots of cash behind coal plant clash," Karen Dillon and David Klepper, The Kansas City (MO) Star March 30, 2008.
