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In part 4 of his journey tracing electricity in Utah, independent producer Ross Chambless turns to the state’s major power generator – coal. In Utah, more than half of Rocky Mountain Power’s electricity comes from coal. While the utility says coal is reliable and keeps power bills affordable, Chambless examines the overall costs of Utah’s coal-power industry.@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }
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In part 4 of his journey tracing electricity in Utah, independent producer Ross Chambless turns to the state’s major power generator – coal. In Utah, more than half of Rocky Mountain Power’s electricity comes from coal. While the utility says coal is reliable and keeps power bills affordable, Chambless examines the overall costs of Utah’s coal-power industry.@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }
Broadcast History
Originally aired on KUER, Salt Lake City, June 30, 2011.
Transcript
Plugging Into Nature - PART 4: COAL
ROSS: [Ambient sounds of museum]
IN THE PREHISTORIC MUSEUM IN PRICE, UTAH, RETIRED COAL MINER JOHN BIRD AND OTHER PALEONTLOGISTS ARE CAREFULLY POLISHING AND PRESERVING FOSSILS. MANY OF THE PETRIFIED TREE ROOTS, LOGS, AND PLANTS CAME FROM LOCAL COALMINES, INCLUDING AN 80 MILLION YEAR OLD TURTLE SHELL. BUT BIRD IS MOST PROUD OF THE DUCKBILL DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS HE COLLECTED FROM THE ROOVES OF COALMINES.
JB: “I worked in one coalmine, we had a travel-way. It was like a dinosaur highway. And it was about a little over 300 feet wide, and it went on for a long ways… And there were just literally thousands of tracks in that track-way, different kinds of dinosaurs. So I don’t know if it was a migratory route, or what it was. I have no idea.”
BIRD SAYS THE DINOSAURS STEPPED IN THE SWAMPY PLANT MATTER THAT WOULD BECOME THE COAL. SAND THEN FILLED IN TH...
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