Pee Dee power plant pollution to get closer lookBy Tony Bartelme (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Amid rising concerns over mercury and greenhouse gasses from coal-fired power generators, Santee Cooper said Wednesday it plans to take a harder look at its pollution-control strategy for the proposed $1 billion Pee Dee plant. Conservation groups have been pushing Santee Cooper for months to do such an analysis. "It should have started long ago," said John Suttles, a lawyer with the Southern Environmental Law Center. The group says that other coal-burning technologies, including one that turns coal into gas, are cleaner than Santee Cooper's Pee Dee plan. Santee Cooper decided to do what's known in regulatory circles as a "Maximum Achievable Control Technology" analysis after a federal appellate court last month struck down the Bush administration controversial "cap-and-trade" program to reduce mercury pollution. Read more in Thursday's edition of The Post and Courier. |
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