Petition to Stop the Construction of
Santee Cooper's Pee Dee Coal Plant
We, the undersigned, are opposed to the coal plant that public
utility Santee Cooper proposes to build on the banks of the Great
Pee Dee River in southern Florence County, near Pamplico.
The dirty coal plant will annually emit 93 pounds of toxic mercury,
3,500 tons of ozone-forming nitrous oxide, 7,000 tons of soot-forming
sulfur dioxide, 900 tons of lung-damaging particulate matter
and 11.6 million tons of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most
responsible for global warming.
This dirty coal plant will endanger our health, damage our environment
and undermine South Carolina's effort to become energy independent.
Santee Cooper has addressed neither the human health and environmental
impacts of this plant, nor the long term economic risks of investing
in coal as an energy source.
The dirty coal plant is not needed to meet our energy needs.
By investing in energy efficiency and clean renewable energy,
South Carolina can meet its growing demand without relying on
a polluting, out-of-state energy source like coal.
We request that Santee Cooper abandon its plans to construct
this plant. We also urge our state regulatory agencies,
the Governor, the Santee Cooper Board of Directors and our state
legislature to exercise their authority to halt this plant.
Total Signatures to Date = 1770
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signatures to ours, please mail them to P.O. Box 603, Georgetown,
SC 29442. Contact Nancy
Cave for more information.
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