Dozens testify on controversial coal-fired power plants

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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/nov/17/dozens_testify_controversial_coalfired_power_plant/

Dozens testify on controversial coal-fired power plants
Another public session scheduled tonight at KU

By George Diepenbrock
Friday, November 17, 2006

About 80 people from across the state testified during a public hearing that lasted until late Thursday night in the Kansas Union on a Kansas-based cooperative’s plan to build three coal-fired power plants near Holcomb.

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The hearing turned into an hourslong debate, and another session is planned for this evening. Those who spoke against the plan said it would contribute to global warming, increase mercury emissions, deplete water resources and hinder the opportunity for Kansas to look toward wind-generated energy.

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But many eastern Kansas residents, including state Sen. Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence, condemned the plans and said they would create devastating pollution effects on public health. The KDHE has held two other public hearings, but the one in Lawrence was by far the most attended, officials said. The KDHE is also accepting written testimony until Nov. 30.

“If built, these plants will be polluting our air and pulling water from our aquifer for the next 50 to 75 years,” said Raymond Red Corn, a Kansas University student and regional director of 2020 Vision.

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TONIGHT Speak Out About Coal Plants- 5 PM AT KU
Further information:
http://kcindymedia.org/newswire/display/72830/index.php

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It's more than the obvious emission of carbon. There is sulfa released

which in turn becomes acid rain that destroys plant and animal life as well as kills bodies of water by creating an imbalance of the Ph levels.

[jwirr]

2. When I was visiting near Coalstrip, Montana years ago someone

asked me about trees in his yard that were dying. Acid rain was what I suspected.