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Thu May 3, 2012

PSC Approves LG&E Proposal for Gas Plant at Cane Run

Credit Erica Peterson / WFPL
The smokestacks at LG&E's coal-fired Cane Run power plant.

The PSC has approved Louisville Gas and Electric’s application to construct a 640 megawatt natural gas power plant at the current site of the gas-fired Cane Run Power Station. The company will also buy existing gas generation in Oldham County.

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Environment
4:53 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Neighbors Say New Dust Screen at Cane Run Isn’t Working

The new dust screen at the Cane Run Power Station. Photo courtesy Greg Walker.

Neighborhood residents say a dust screen that was installed last week at Louisville Gas and Electric’s Cane Run Power Station isn’t working.

A video taken this weekend by neighborhood residents shows clouds of dust billowing over and around the 50-foot-tall screen the company installed near its sludge processing plant.

Greg Walker lives across the street from the plant, and shot the video.

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Environment
2:41 pm
Wed April 25, 2012

LG&E Plans Dust Screen at Cane Run; Residents Skeptical

This stock image of a dust screen is similar to what will be installed at Cane Run. Photo courtesy LG&E.

As complaints over coal ash near the Cane Run power plant continue, Louisville Gas and Electric has begun construction of a 50-foot tall dust screen which the company hopes will resolve neighborhood concerns about dust emissions.

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