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Robinson Power Company has revised the plans for their proposed Beech Hollow Energy Project in Washington County. They will be burning natural gas to generate electricity as part of the revised plan for a $450 million power plant at the border of Washington and Allegheny counties. The developers of the Beech Hollow Energy Project in Robinson Towship told township planners Monday night they want to fuel the plant with natural gas in addition to the waste coal that already has been approved. It would be about a 50/50 split with gas coming from Marcellus Shale. The 300-gross-megawatt plant would use 21 million to 23 million cubic feet of natural gas each day.
Build it and quit worrying about the environmental sissies. If not built we should charge all opposed an extra fee on their power bills. Thousands of jobs are at risk. Lets build it and quit playing games.
ReplyDeleteActually, only 180 jobs at most are at risk, and only 30 of those are projected to be full time. I wonder how many children will have more acute asthma symptoms as a result of the extra particulate pollution?
ReplyDeletePittsburgh is in the top 25 dirtiest cites list as compiled by the American Lung Association in their State of the Air report for 2011. Adding more pollution upwind of all of Allegheny county, and PA as a whole is not going to help our children breath easier.
Are those thirty jobs really worth the health risks to residents and their families?
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11180/1156933-58-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml
http://www.stateoftheair.org/2011/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html