Coal Watch: South Carolina, Iowa
by David Sassoon - Aug 22nd, 2007
Battle lines are being drawn at the Great Pee Dee river in South Carolina. That's where Santee Cooper intends to build a $1 billion pulverized coal power plant. The utility thinks importing coal into the state is the way to keep energy prices down, but as a member of the Governor's climate change task force points out, betting on coal is a recipe for higher electricity rates.
The Iowa Utilities Board is being asked to approve two coal plants, LS Power Group's 750-megawatt plant proposed near Waterloo, and Alliant Energy's 630-megawatt plant to be in Marshalltown.
Plants Justice and Community Energy Solutions are opposing the new coal-fired plants saying they would undo much of what Iowa has done to reduce air emissions and slow climate change through the production of renewable energy.
"We are in the early stages of an incredibly intense coal rush to get
as many plants built as possible," says NRDC's Henry Henderson. which plans to
fight some of the Midwest plants in court.
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This is the first coal fired power permit to be approved in Georgia in over 20 years but with this court's ruling, I fear it will not be the last, says Justine Thompson, executive director of Green Law, which is leading the legal fight against the plant. As neighboring states stand up against coal plants, Georgia's acquiescence will make us a target for new coal fired power plant proposals. Building this plant as currently designed will lock this state into dirty air for the life of the plant, at least or more years.
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