ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

  • The Dynergy-LS Power plant’s carbon dioxide emissions will be equivalent of having about 1,300,000 extra cars and truck on the roads and will emit roughly 3,520 ounces of mercury in a year, that is the equivalent of breaking nearly 129.000 mercury thermometers!

  • UP TO 27,000,000 GALLONS PER DAY OF FRESH WATER IS ALLOCATED TO THE PLANT, AFFECTING AQUATIC LIFE AND STRAINING GEORGIA’S RESOURCES.

  • ANNUALLY THE PLANT WILL:
         EMIT 240 POUNDS OF MERCURY
         RELEASE 6,400 TONS OF SULFUR DIOXIDE
         EMIT NINE MILLION TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE

    LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL RAMIFICATIONS

    HEALTH IMPACT

  • The Medical Association of Georgia found that coal-burning power plants trigger an estimated 26,442 asthma attacks and 1362 heart attacks, while causing 113 deaths in individuals with lung cancer - They recommended the state consider efficiency standards before permitting antiquated coal-plants.

  • MERCURY CONTAMINATION IN FISH IS HARMFUL TO CHILDREN AND WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE.

  • SULFUR DIOXIDE HAS BEEN LINKED TO PREMATURE DEATH AND RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE.

  • NITROGEN DIOXIDE CONTRIBUTES TO GEORGIA’S SMOG AND TRIGGERS ASTHMA ATTACKS.

  • THE PARTICULATE MATTER IS ALSO LINKED TO RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, REDUCED LUNG CAPACITY, SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS), AND HEART ATTACKS. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA’S RECOMMENDATIONS

    ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY

  • RENEWABLE ENERGY CREATES 40% MORE JOBS PER DOLLAR INVESTED THAN COAL.

  • ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY IS ACTUALLY MORE LABOR INTENSIVE THAN GENERATION POWER, CREATING 21.5 JOBS FOR EVERY $1 MILLION INVESTED.

  • IF LEGISTLATION IS PASSED PUTTING A CAP ON CARBON EMISSION, IT IS TAXPAYERS WHO WILL PAY THE PRICE FOR INEFFECIENIES OF THIS COAL PLANT.

    Learn more about the Apollo Alliance, a project dedicated to creating new jobs through energy efficient technology leading to a more energy independent U.S. http://www.apolloalliance.org/

    CURRENT SITUATION IN EARLY COUNTY

    Early County already ranks among the dirtiest in the US in terms of air quality and stands as the 11th most polluted in the entire state of Georgia.
    http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/cap/county.tcl?fips_county_code=13099#maps

    As well as specific pollutant rankings on:

         Diesel Soot:
         http://www.catf.us/projects/diesel/dieselhealth/county.php?c=13099&site=0

         Land Contamination:
         http://www.scorecard.org/envreleases/land/county.tcl?fips_county_code=13099

         And Toxic Release Chemicals:
         http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/county.tcl?fips_county_code=13099

    Coal-fired power plants disparately affect low income and minority populations. The proposed site of the Dynergy - LS Power plant is over 50% African American and has an unemployment rate of nearly 30%.

    Learn more through the report from the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest concerning the negative impact of the Longleaf plant on minority and low-income residents. http://www.cleangeorgia.org/cleangeorgia/PDF/LSPower-comments.pdf

    POLLUTING GEORGIA TO GENERATE POWER FOR OTHER STATES

    Learn more about the companies responsible for the construction of the Longleaf Energy plant:

  • Dynegy http://www.dynegy.com
  • LS Power Group http://www.lspower.com