If the power industry is serious about protecting the environment and reducing carbon emissions, then regulators and utilities need to focus on closing coal-fired power plants. Currently, many regulators and utilities are pouring millions of dollars and valuable resources into "clean coal" technologies, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS)-a process that captures carbon dioxide from the air and deposits it in a storage site (most commonly underground), isolated from the atmosphere. Provinces such as Saskatchewan and states such as Mississippi and Texas are planning to build more coal plants using these new technologies. SaskPower recently opened the worlds first carbon-capture coal-fired plant (at a cost of $1.4 billion) with a generous $240 million investment from the Canadian federal government.
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