WV Senate Bill to Promote Gas-Fired Power Rankles Coal Lobby

Is the coal industry and natural gas industry in West Virginia friends? Or enemies? Or perhaps "frenemies"? We suppose it depends on the issue. In our book, the coal industry has largely been an enemy of the natural gas industry in WV because natgas-fired power plants threaten to displace coal-fired plants (see Brooke County Blames Coal Lobby for WV Gas Plant Delay). Coal baron Bob Murray, now dead, was behind much of the opposition to gas-fired power plants in the Mountain State (see Murray Energy Continues to Block Gas-Fired Plants in WV). The issue of coal vs. natgas came up again yesterday as the WV Senate Economic Development Committee debated Senate Bill (SB) 188, the Grid Stabilization and Security Act.

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