DHEC Public Hearing on the Pee Dee plants TONIGHT in Pamplico, SC.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Meeting Tonight!
Posted by John Mellor at 1:54 PM
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Pee Dee Plant News Coverage
- DHEC Post Mercury Warning Signs, 12/14/07
- Biz Journal Claims Boost from Coal Plant, 12/14/07
- S-C releases Economic Study, FMN, 12/13/07
- State Op-Ed, 12/09/07 by Ben Gregg
- LakeFront Hartwell, 12/07/07: Doctors call on DHEC
- Doctors ask DHEC to test for Mercury, The State, 12/07/07
- Greenville News Opinion: DHEC must test, 12/06/07
- Times Democrate Opinion: DHEC must test for Hg, 12/06/07
- P&C: MD's request Mercury Testing, 12/05/07
- Coal Lobby lands in SC, P&C, 11/30/07
- FMN: Coal Front-group in SC, 11/30/07
- A Burning Issue, Chas. Business Journal, 11/26/07
- Coal Plant: Wrath & Hope, Chas. Business Journal, 11/26/07
- Sun News Op-Ed, 11/26/07 by Anne Timberlake
- Next Steps in Coal Fight, FMN, 11/24/07
- Sun News Op-Ed, 11/24/07 by Angela Lee
- Sun News Coverage of DHEC Hearing, 11/10/07
- Greenville News Op-Ed, 11/10/07 by Jenn Rennicks
- Greenville News Op-Ed, 11/09/07
- P&C Coverage of DHEC Hearing, 11/09/07
- WPDE Coverage of DHEC Hearing, 11/08/07
- Post & Courier, 11/01/07 - "Protestors Say No to Coal"
- The State, 11/01/07 - "Proposed Plant Assailed"
- Florence Morning News, 10/31/07: Groups Oppose Plant
- P&C Mercury Series, 10/30/07 - Mercury Regulation
- P&C Mercury Series, 10/30/07 - Mercury & Wildlife
- P&C Mercury Series, 10/29/07 - Coal, Poison, Power
- Op-ed by Ben Moore in MB Sun News, 10/28/07
- P&C Mercury Series, 10/28/07 - The Mercury Connection
- P&C Mercury Series, 10/28/07 - On the Mercury Trail
- P&C Mercury Series, 10/28/07 - Mercury Poisoning
- Savannah Morning News, 10/25/07 - "Santee Cooper Criticized"
- Op-Ed by S-C Chief in The State, 10/25/07
- The State, 10/20/07 - Efficiency v. Coal
- Sun News, 10/20/07 - S-C Vows Clean Power
- Charleston City Paper - "Ridin' Green & Dirty"
- Island Packet Opinion, 10/24/07
- Beaufort Gazette Opinion, 10/19/07
- Chas Biz Journal 10/4/07
- Co-Ops Announce Clean Energy Initiative and Studies, P&C 10/2/07
- WPDE TV Coverage of 9/27/07 Scoping Meeting
- FMN coverage of 9/27/07 Scoping Meeting
- FMN coverage of 9/25/07 Scoping Meeting
- Florence Morning News, 9/22/07: Coal Plant Focus of Meetings
- SELC on DHEC's Decision to Issue PSD, 9/18/07
- Sun News: An "Electric Reality" Check, 8/27/07
- Op-Ed: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, 8/22/07
- The Greenville News: True cost of our energy may be obscure, 8/21/07
- 8/19/07 League of Women Voters Letter to the Florence Morning News
- Dr. Mark Sally's op-ed on the link between coal and health, 8/17/07
- Op-Ed by Gerritt Jobsis on Santee Cooper and "Good Faith", 8/9/07
- Environmental Defense Op-Ed, 8/6/07
- The State: Behind the Coal Plant Fight, 8/3/07
- Columbia City Paper on the proposed Pee Dee Plant, 8/1/07
- "Electric Reality" in the Myrtle Beach Sun News, 7/17/07
- Charleston Post & Courier article on Pee Dee plant debate, 7/16/07
- Op-Ed: Santee Cooper's CEO, Lonnie Carter, 7/15/07
- WPDE-TV coverage of DHEC meeting in Pamlico, SC 7/13/07
- Frank Knapp's 7/6/07 Op-Ed on why the Pee Dee plant is bad business
- Dana Beach in the Orangeburg Times and Democrat, 7/1/07
- Beaufort Gazette: Coal Plant Unnecessary, 6/29/07
- Charleston Post & Courier: Climate Dialogue Starts Under a New Light, 6/28/07
- Op-Ed by Dana Beach of the Coastal Conservation League, 6/3/07
- Future Coal Power Plant in the Pee Dee: WPDE-TV, 5/22/07
- Groups Oppose Coal-Fired Plant: Florence Morning News 5/20/97
- Cash for credits creates mercury pollution loophole: Charleston Post & Courier, 12/30/06
Useful Links
- SC Cooperatives Energy Efficiency Study
- SC Cooperatives Renewable Energy Study
- Santee Cooper
- Air Permit Application for Pee Dee Plant
- Draft Environmental Assessment for the Pee Dee Plant
- Santee Cooper's Water/Wetlands Permit Application
- Pee Dee Plant Site Plan
- Pee Dee Plant EIS Website
- Green Power from Santee Cooper
- SC Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC)
- South Carolina's 12 Coal Plants (BREDL)
- Health risks & coal (cleartheair.org)
- Energy Information Administration Coal Page
- Carolina Climate Network
- Sierra Club of South Carolina
- Coastal Conservation League
- Conservation Voters of South Carolina
- SC Wildlife Federaton
- Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
- Southern Environmental Law Center
- wukela.us Pee Dee News Blog
- Coal 101
- Global Warming Guy
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3 comments:
Hey, John, we got our butts cut at the public hearing even after all that advertising and radio ads. What a waste of good money. Hey, after hearing that story about the elderly lady having to choose between her prescription medicine and paying her power bill it was hard to put global warming and the polar bears up against it. Maybe we really do need the plant!
I'm not sure who's "butts got cut" (?!) at the public hearing. I was there and what I saw was this: S-C, the electric cooperatives and a bunch of their industrial customers busing in a bunch of their employees (who no doubt earned overtime or were otherwise strongly "encouraged" to attend -- talk about a waste of PUBLIC money). It also sounded to me like all of their "speeches" were written by a PR firm (and no doubt they were).
In the end (although you might not know this because you probably left early, along with all the other folks who were probably paid to attend), the number of anti coal speakers were just about equal to the pro-coal speakers, with a key difference:
The anti-coal speakers were local residents and concerned citizens who spoke from the heart -- real people who don't work for the folks who want to build this plant, and won't somehow get paid by the folks who want to build this plant.
And tell the truth -- your coal plant won't lower that lady's power bill, it will raise it. and your mercury will make her even sicker!
Hey Mike, I DID stay until the end! I kept count and the enviros lost 45-24. Three touchdowns!! It wasn't even close! What are you talking about?
I did not say the coal plant would lower electric bills, I just though about my grandmother trying to pay her power bill and the polar bears did not seem so important! She's 96 years old, and the mercury hasn't got her yet.
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