Clean Energy Jobs Are on the Way

Let's Get Smart About the Longleaf Coal Plant

Early County politicians want us to subsidize a 1,200-megawatt coal-burning power plant — one of the biggest in Georgia — so the owners of a New Jersey energy company can make money. Let’s put the facts on the table.

Clean Energy Jobs Are on the Way

Clean energy is the future, and it will create new jobs and economic activity for all of us.

There are more than 8,000 clean energy jobs for Georgians in the stimulus package. Jobs in construction weatherization, biofuels, and other renewable energy investments are coming to Georgia soon.

Solar power, wind power and biomass energy from our farms, forests and garbage are all clean, renewable sources of energy. They don’t pollute our air and water, and they don’t threaten the health of our families and children.

Dirty energy like coal and other fossil fuels threaten the economic and physical health of all Georgians. We need to invest in to clean energy instead, and we need to start today.

The Plant Won’t Revive Our Economy

1. Pollution from the plant will hurt Early County’s economy. We’ll be a less desirable location for tourists, retirees and industries that don’t pollute. Investors will stay away.

Construction jobs last only a few years.

Out-of-town engineers will fill the few jobs needed to operate the plant.

Rising construction costs and new federal regulations make it doubtful that the plant will generate the tax revenue its backers say it will.

The Plant’s Pollution Threatens Our People, Our Crops and Our Way of Life

The plant will produce 807 tons of soot particles, causing breathing and heart problems. That much soot will likely put us over EPA limits, making it uncertain whether our timber farmers could do prescribed burns.

The plant will produce 3,227 tons of sulfur dioxide and 1,344 tons nitrogen oxides, which will damage our peanuts and pine trees.

The plant will produce 220 pounds of mercury, which falls into rivers and streams, where it gets absorbed by the fish we eat. And mercury is especially toxic for children and women who want to have children.

The Plant Will Use Too Much of Our Water — and Pollute What It Doesn’t Use Up

Just running the plant will use 20 million gallons of water every day — water than won’t be available to us for agriculture, or for recreation on the Chattahoochee River.

Burning coal creates ash that contains arsenic, mercury, lead, chromium, and cadmium — elements that will seep into our soil.

The plant’s coal-ash storage pond will be located near the Chattahoochee, threatening the river if there is an overflow.

The

　air 　we 　breathe, 　the 　water 　our 　children 　drink 　and 　the 　money 　in 　our 　pocketbooks 　are 　at 　risk 　if 　Longleaf 　is 　built. 　

Georgians

　for 　Smart 　Energy 　asks 　a 　simple 　question: 　Should 　we 　invest 　in 　the 　future 　or 　the 　past? 　The 　time 　to 　start 　investing 　in 　a 　clean‐energy 　economy 　is 　now. 　

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