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* '''[[Coal Studies]]''' - Here's a good page to work on if you have limited time. The number of studies is really big, and the main service provided by this page is to list them all in one place and categorize them by topic.
 
* '''[[Coal Studies]]''' - Here's a good page to work on if you have limited time. The number of studies is really big, and the main service provided by this page is to list them all in one place and categorize them by topic.
 
* '''[[Comparative electrical generating costs]]''' -- need to add updated info from [http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/beck_plantcosts/pdf/updatedplantcosts.pdf "Updated Capital Cost Estimates for Electricity Generation Plants,"] U.S. Energy Information Administration, November 2010  
 
* '''[[Comparative electrical generating costs]]''' -- need to add updated info from [http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/beck_plantcosts/pdf/updatedplantcosts.pdf "Updated Capital Cost Estimates for Electricity Generation Plants,"] U.S. Energy Information Administration, November 2010  
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*''' [[Data sources on coal (United States)]]''' -- needs to be expanded by adding things like Dirty Kilowatts, CARMA, and Followthecoalmoney.org
 
* '''[[Federal coal leasing]]''' - This is an important topic, especially in the Powder River Basin that accounts for nearly 40% of U.S. production and is almost federal coal leases. These leases are historically very cheap and are an overlooked public policy handle.
 
* '''[[Federal coal leasing]]''' - This is an important topic, especially in the Powder River Basin that accounts for nearly 40% of U.S. production and is almost federal coal leases. These leases are historically very cheap and are an overlooked public policy handle.
 
* '''[[Feed-in tariff]]''' - needs to be expanded.  
 
* '''[[Feed-in tariff]]''' - needs to be expanded.  
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*'''[[Global warming]]''', '''[[Climate impacts of coal plants]], [[Climate change]]''' - All of these pages are out of date, and they need more coal-specific info. The coal-related information on all three can be the same. There needs to an explanation of James Hansen's coal-centric climate strategy.
 
*'''[[Global warming]]''', '''[[Climate impacts of coal plants]], [[Climate change]]''' - All of these pages are out of date, and they need more coal-specific info. The coal-related information on all three can be the same. There needs to an explanation of James Hansen's coal-centric climate strategy.
 
*'''[[Green the Capitol Initiative]]''' – 252 views - stub
 
*'''[[Green the Capitol Initiative]]''' – 252 views - stub
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* '''[[A guide to U.S. federal statistics on coal]]'''
 
 
* '''[[Hazardous air pollutants and coal]]''' - need a page, including the EPA's proposed NESHAPS regulations (http://www.epa.gov/apti/course422/apc4e.html) and  this study: C.B. Szpunar, [http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/6869555-Cxdk4K/6869555.pdf "Air Toxic Emissions from the Combustion of Coal: Identifying and Quantifying Hazardous Air Pollutants from U.S. Coals,"] U.S. Department of Energy, ANL/EAIS/TM-83, September 1992
 
* '''[[Hazardous air pollutants and coal]]''' - need a page, including the EPA's proposed NESHAPS regulations (http://www.epa.gov/apti/course422/apc4e.html) and  this study: C.B. Szpunar, [http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/6869555-Cxdk4K/6869555.pdf "Air Toxic Emissions from the Combustion of Coal: Identifying and Quantifying Hazardous Air Pollutants from U.S. Coals,"] U.S. Department of Energy, ANL/EAIS/TM-83, September 1992
 
* '''[[Historic coal production]]''' - create a page containing the EIA table.
 
* '''[[Historic coal production]]''' - create a page containing the EIA table.

Revision as of 17:29, 14 July 2011

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Introduction

This page is a general to-do list and a way of keeping track of ongoing projects by the CoalSwarm team. Others are welcome to jump in as well -- contact ted@tednace.com for help on getting started.

Routine Updating

The following pages need to be updated with more recent data. Please initial and date if you've updated a page, e.g. TN 8/11

Major Projects

Victories (International)

  • Need a page listing successful coal plant and coal mine fights outside the U.S. Examples:
    • Defeat of Golden Triangle Hydro Electric Power Pte Ltd 12 MW coal-fired power plant in Burma in April 2001 (see Poison Clouds, page 46

Thailand and Burma


India and coal

More plants need pages. See table on Proposed coal plants in India. Many of these are KSK plants -- info from http://www.ksk.co.in/opr-evl-tp.html

There are a number of Wikipedia pages that can be adapted into CoalSwarm and then enhanced. Remember to add the {{Wikipedia}} marker at the bottom of the first posting of the page onto CoalSwarm to show the attribution of the page:

Proposed Celukan Bawang power station on the island of Bali, Indonesia

NOTE: As of May 2011, it appears that this project has been cancelled. This reduces the urgency of the topic. In August 2010, China Huadian Corporation, one of China's five largest state-owned power companies, embarked on a "going abroad" path. One of the main targets is Indonesia, where the Celukan Bawang power station is being planned -- the first coal plant on the scenic island of Bali. There has been virtually no public information about this station. The following needs work:

Phulbari coal mine

Description: The Phulbari mine has been the site of a major controversy over the past five years, including demonstrations involving 50,000 people, killing of three demonstrators and wounding of hundreds of others, disclosures by WikiLeaks of U.S. involvement in restarting the project, and involvement by the U.S. hedge fund owner Christian Leone. The Talk:Bangladesh and coal page has numerous links about the Phulbari Coal Project. In addition, there are numerous links on the website of the International Accountability Project.

Posting Abt mortality/morbidity tables to coal plant pages

Example: Howard Down Generating Station; data link: "The Toll from Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America's Dirtiest Energy Source," Clean Air Task Force, September 2010; list of coal plants in each state: Existing U.S. Coal Plants

  • Coil - to do: none / done: AK
  • Skokos - to do: none / done: ND
  • Shearer - to do: none / done: MO, KS, FL, AR, KY, TN, WV, DE
  • Nace - to do: AL done: LA, OH, NJ, WI, MI, NY, DC, SC, LA, MS, GA, PA, MD, IN, IL, AZ, ME, NH, CT, IA
  • Frank - to do: none - done: MT, OR, ID, WY, UT, TX, CA, NV, CO, NC, VA, SD, NE, MN, OK

Posting Abt mortality/morbidity tables to utility holding company and executive pages

The data for this project is now available on the Clean Air Task Force "Death and Disease from Power Plants" page under the Data Annex tab in the lower left of the page. "The following are the largest holding companies and should be given priority. Note that the figures for respiratory and cardio hospital admissions are added together to get overall hospital admissions. In the spreadsheet, use the "Health Incidents by HC and Plant" tab and the "Valuation by HC and Plant" tab. Use currency figures to one significant place, e.g. $4.2 billion or $351.3 million.

* More companies at Key private sector decision makers on coal

Adding videos to coal activist video and state pages

  • This project involves opening up the coal activist video pages found on Coal Activist Videos, deleting any inoperative videos, increasing the size to 300, adding new videos, and cross-posting as appropriate onto other pages such as state, company, and mine pages. The goal is to increase multimedia content generally across a range of CoalSwarm pages. Please list pages completed:
  • Nace -
  • Shearer - I did this a few months back and tried to add the applicable videos to all the relevant pages: state, company, plant, etc. I don't remember exactly which ones, but at the time I went through all the videos and drew on the ones I thought were best.
  • Frank - continuing to this for pages I manage... Also working on formatting them so they are consistent and fit the page well.
  • Burton -

Adding detail to Southeast coal plants

Description: This project involves adding detail to existing coal plants in KY, TN, AL, VA, NC, SC, and GA. Things that can be added included videos, images, news of scrubber settlements and retrofits, coal source, citizen action and protests, toxic waste data, incidents of accidents and negligence, litigation, coal plant databases, and information about how upcoming regulation may affect the plant. For some ideas of what to improve pages, see Bruce Mansfield Power Station. Also, for data on toxic releases, see Top 100 TRI facilities for 2009, Right-to-Know Network.

  • Nace - to do: Tennessee, North Carolina
  • Burton - to do: South Carolina
  • Christine - to do: Georgia
  • Unassigned: Kentucky, Virginia, Alabama
  • Adding coal source information - to do: TN, AL, VA, NC, SC; Done: GA, KY (through EW Brown)

Northwest coal exports

Description: This project involves making sure that we have pages on all the existing and proposed rail lines, port facilities, companies, regulatory authorities, etc. that will be involved in the push to expand exports of coal from the Powder River Basin. An important paper to look at is "Exporting Powder River Basin Coal: Risks and Costs by the Western Organization of Resource Councils. Include Norfolk Southern and Peabody Energy, if relevant.

High traffic pages

The following pages get a lot of visitors, so they should be kept up-to-date, with plenty of links to other pages:

Updating 39 power plants with contamination data from "In Harm's Way"

The August 2010 report In Harm's Way provided specific data on dangerous pollution measured in sampled wells near 39 coal combustion waste sites. Specifics on this pollution, including what pollutants were found and the level of the pollutant compared to the allowable maximum, should be posted on each of these power plant pages.

Tips and Techniques

  • Updating old YouTube code with new code:
{{#evp:service|id|description|align|width}}
Example: {{#evp:youtube|-dnL00TdmLY|Wikis in Plain English|left|300}}

Articles that need work

Complete; just need normal updating

  • Environmental justice and coal – 1,140 page views (9/09), 2,206 page views (5/10). This page is good and we should continue to build it as items appear.
  • Journalists covering coal - This is a very popular page that needs constant expanding. Anyone who just has a small amount of time can always google for coal articles and then post the journalists here. The hardest part is usually finding an email address for a journalist. (Remember to hide the address from Internet bots by replace the "@" with the word "AT".
  • Public polling on coal and alternatives – 780 page views (5/09), 1,608 page views (5/10)– This page has a lot of information but for some reason doesn’t get much traffic.
  • Obama administration actions on coal – 743 page views (9/09), 2,012 page views (5/10)

High-traffic general pages

Pages with more than 10,000 page views

These pages should receive the most frequent attention aimed at increasing usefulness, completeness, and links to other pages.

Pages with 5,000 - 10,000 page views

High-traffic country, state, company, plant, mine, and organization pages

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