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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 130

(By Delegate Caputo, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Thompson, and Delegates Barill, Boggs, Ennis, Ferns, Ferro, Fleischauer, Fragale, Givens, Jones, Longstreth, Manchin, Manypenny, Marshall, Pasdon, Pethtel, D. Poling, Swartzmiller and Varner)

 

 

 

Supporting the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

    Whereas, The extraction and use of domestic sources of coal, oil and natural gas are vital to West Virginia’s economy and essential to America’s drive to energy independence; and

    Whereas, The United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has been leading the nation’s research and development and deployment programs for fossil energy; and

    Whereas, NETL technological breakthroughs include: Emissions control devices in use in over seventy-five percent of the nation’s coal-fired power plants; high efficiency fluidized bed coal combustors; high efficiency gas turbines; carbon capture and storage methods; and horizontal well drilling technologies and fracture mapping techniques for gas and oil recovery; and

    Whereas, Independent studies have found that the return on investment from taxpayer funding to NETL projects has been as much as nine hundred percent; and

    Whereas, NETL is also extensively involved in energy efficiency and renewable energy research and development projects in leading America to have a broad range of energy saving technologies, such as United States manufactured battery and electric drive industry, solid state lighting, industrial building technologies, and state energy weatherization programs for low income families; and

    Whereas, NETL is a leading employer in Monongalia County and contributed $87 million in salaries and wages to the area economy in 2010 alone; and

    Whereas, These salaries are a vital source of revenue for many additional area businesses and a valued tax base for state and local governments; and

    Whereas, The United States Congress is unwisely seeking to discontinue all NETL research and development programs in oil and natural gas and underfund NETL coal research and development and related programs; and

    Whereas, NETL contributed an additional $342 million to West Virginia businesses and universities through research, development, construction and support contracts and other agreements; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of the State of West Virginia:

    That it calls upon the West Virginia Congressional delegation to the United States Congress to continue to support NETL’s Fossil Energy and Energy Efficiency research and development programs by securing full funding for the National Energy Technology Laboratory in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 at no less than $1.961 billion per fiscal year; and, be it

    Further resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the West Virginia Congressional delegation to the United States Congress, the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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