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...power plant is going to be a 2800 megawatt facility. It will burn 27,400 tons of coal each day, and release into the nearby air (according to AP&L's estimates) 469 tons of sulfur dioxide, 14 tons of particulate matter, and 291 tons of nitrogen oxides each day. That's more than any power plant currently in operation in the United States. The power plant will be, according to the Arkansas State Dept. of Planning, "possibly the worst single source of air pollution in the world." It will certainly be a greater source of pollution than the infamous...
Arkansas Power and Light, which sells electricity to most of the state of Arkansas, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Middle South Utilities, Inc. Middle South is a giant utility holding company, which owns 100 per cent of the stock of (in addition to AP&L) Mississippi Power and Light Company, Arkansas-Missouri Power Company, Louisiana Power and Light Company, and New Orleans Public Service Inc. Middle South has its main office in New York City, and it is not run by the people of Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana, but by the New York banks and investment companies which...
Even more important, the farmers know that the strings can be pulled in more ways than one. They know that Harvard is in a position to see to it that if AP&L builds their plant they build it in such a way as to minimize the threat which the plant poses to the economic livelihood of rural Arkansas. Consequently, the farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou, organized into the ACORN Protect Our Land Association, ask Harvard to exert pressure on Middle South Utilities to do the following things...
...build the power plant until the farmers of Jefferson County get a written promise from AP&L/MSU offering to pay for any damages which are caused by emission from the plant...
...AP&L's proposed plant has been called "possibly the largest single source of pollution in the world" by the Arkansas Department of Planning--a statement with which the company disagrees...