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The Sierra Club and other organizations are challenging the proposed construction of a large new triple, coal-fired power plant intended for Western Kansas (Holcomb).
One of the Club's demands is that money be invested instead in renewable sources of energy, since Kansas is blessed with plentiful wind and sunshine.One danger is that the plant will produce up to 20 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. After becoming operational, it will be online for at least 50 years. The Sierra Club is also pointing to a great increase in mercury pollution as a result of these new plants, as well as the consumption of billions of gallons of fresh water from the already challenged Oglalla Aquifer.
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Will these plants become "the biggest new polluters in the country," as the Sierra Club charges?
More pictures at: KANSAS NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL
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