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Celebrating the Year of Cooperatives
2012 has been recognized as the International Year of Cooperatives by the United Nations.
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Improved Service with our enhanced 800 phone number
Over the past year PVREA has deployed several new technologies that have improved our operation in many areas. One important enhancement is our telephone service. The primary customer contact number, 800-432-1012, can now answer many times more calls than before. The result is fewer busy signals during high volume call times which allows us to respond to your needs more quickly. So please use this number to contact us for any reason, day or night.
PVREA Members Save Nearly $52,000 With Connections Card
Over the past year Poudre Valley REA members 2115 people have saved more than $51,629 off their prescription drugs at local pharmacies with the Co-op Connections Card. A list of pharmacies shows that there are 68 local drug stores that accept the card. The discount on prescription drugs is only one benefit of using the Co-op Connections card. Visit the Co-op Connections card page for all the details.
Date for 2012 Annual Meeting Announced
The 2012 Poudre Valley REA Annual Meeting of Members will be held March 31. The meeting will again be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center in Loveland. Registration will open at 7:30 A.M. in the John Q. Hammons Conference Center at the hotel. The central business at the meeting will be focused on the election for board of directors. This year there are four positions on the board open, one in Boulder County, and three in Larimer County. All of the candidates for these seats will be profiled and the voting process will be explained in detai when ballots are mailed March 1. The independent firm of Survey and Ballot Systems will again oversee the voting.
Mountain Pine Beetle Information
Click here for information about pine beetles and how to cope
An important issue that could increase your electric bill
The EPA is considering proposed rules to redefine coal ash as “hazardous.” This would be a significant change in how this material is disposed of and add considerable costs to coal-generated electricity. Coal ash is a byproduct of coal-generated electricity. For many decades a significant portion of this ash has been recycled into construction materials such as concrete and used in road construction projects with no environmental or public health risk.
Everyone agrees that coal ash should be disposed of properly and we support guidlines that require this but do not believe this necessitates reclassifying it as hazardous. The electric power industry has taken many proactive actions that are protecting the environment. For example, the EPA reports that 36% of the states do not have minimum liner requirements for coal ash landfills, and 67% do not have liner requirements for surface impoundments. However, they also observed that nearly all new coal ash landfills and surface impoundments are constructed with liners. In effect, the industry is already acting responsibly without additional regulation.
Even the EPA acknowledges in their proposal that: “The utility industry, through their trade association the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG), submitted to EPA a Utility Industry Action Plan for the Management of Coal Combustion Products. The plan outlines the utility industry’s commitment to adopt groundwater performance standards and monitoring, conduct risk assessments prior to placement of CCRs (coal ash) in sand and gravel pits, and to consider dry-handling prior to constructing new disposal units.”
Our industry supports proper storage methods for coal ash and we believe that improvements to disposal methods under non-hazardous guidlines make the reclassification to hazardous unnecessary.
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