Bush Urges Agencies to Assess Possible Coal Shortage

U.S. President George Bush has asked agencies like the Board of Public Utilities to help evaluate a nationwide coal shortage.

On Friday, the North American Electric Reliability Council sent a letter to utility managers about a team being assembled by the U.S. Department of Energy to study reduced coal deliveries because of “limitations established by the railroad.” Bill Camm, director of production support services, said construction to railroad tracks in Wyoming has slowed coal supply trains in utilities across the Midwest.
The Kansas City Kansan