CFC Alert! Keep public input on power plants!
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Dear Friend,
We need your help to defeat a dangerous bill that will be sent to the Arkansas Senate floor shortly, possibly this Monday, March 28. HB 1895 is an attempt by the utility Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) to get around legal objections to its plans to build the Turk coal fired power plant in Hempstead County. The Turk plant is being constructed while public interest groups have been contesting the faulty air and water permits in federal and state courts. SWEPCO is losing in the courts, and now it is attempting to get the legislature to take sides and essentially pick a winner in the ongoing court cases.
Please email your senator to vote NO on HB 1895. We encourage you to only use the talking points here as a guide because a personalized email in your own words will be much more persuasive to your senator.
HB 1895 infringes on landowners' rights. The bill creates a separate proceeding where the Public Service Commission determines the need for more electricity production without linking where, or how that electricity would ultimately be generated. In this "declaration of need" proceeding no specific power plant proposal, or its location, would be mentioned. By the time the public is notified about the location and type of power plant to be considered in a later second proceeding, it would already be too late to comment on the "need" for the plant in the first place. Landowners have a right to protect their air and water quality from power plants such as coal plants. HB 1895 would take away protections for property rights and public health.
Find your Senator and your senator's contact information.
Feel free to contact Lev Guter (lev.guter@sierraclub.org) if you have any questions about HB 1895.
To find HB 1895 itself, visit: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Pages/BillInformation.aspx?measureno=hb1895
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