Even though the pumps were not essential since the plant is in a scheduled refueling shut down, and plant operators even moved a portable pump into the threatened building in case the regular pump had been submerged, the sense was that things were amiss.
Private equity backed 2Co wants to build a new coal plant above the Hatfield coal mine and pump the gas to North Sea oil fields where it can be used for enhanced oil recovery.
The Kempton Agassi and Huber proposals have this in common: They take advantage of the fact that energy bought from a central station power plant is cheaper than energy bought from a gasoline pump.