Sign the Petition Against Largest Coal Plant in Virginia

[monkey's mom]

Check out the MSNBC video covering the story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...12073#33012073

Sign the petition:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/...tition_KEY=511

Join our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38570883349


This plant is a few miles from my home and the fight has been ugly! The utility has convinced many people here that it's "clean coal" and we will be rolling in money. Do I need to mention our socio-economic make up?

[monkey's mom]

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/...tition_KEY=511

Better link for the petition.

[monkey's mom]

CBF Report Finds Surry Coal-Fired Power Plant Would Increase Mercury, Nitrogen Pollution Across Virginia

http://www.cbf.org/Page.aspx?pid=1449

October 14, 2009
Press Release

(NORFOLK, VA)—A new report commissioned by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) shows that a coal-fired power plant in Surry County, Va., would add significant, illegal amounts of toxic mercury and nitrogen to the Chesapeake Bay and further threaten some of Virginia's most unspoiled rivers.
Many of these waters are already deemed "impaired," or polluted, by state and federal governments, and some of them are so contaminated by high levels of mercury they carry Health Department fish consumption warnings.

"Our report confirms that the Old Dominion Electric Co-operative (ODEC) plant in Surry would add significantly more pollution to Virginia's waterways, compounding existing water quality problems and posing further risks to the environment, citizens, and the economy," said CBF President William C. Baker. "That is why we are calling on state and federal authorities to prohibit this new pollution source."

more on the CBF website.

118 POUNDS of MERCURY / yr.

1,000 POUNDS of LEAD / yr.