South Carolina Utility Dumps Coal-Fired Power Plant Parts

For Sale: One Coal Plant Priced to Move.

Cobb EMC Holds onto Old Energy

ATLANTA, GA – Concerned about the impact on ratepayers, South Carolina's largest public utility, Santee Cooper, announced the final abandonment of its proposed 600 megawatt Pee Dee coal plant. Now, in an attempt to recoup some of the lost money it poured into the plant’s development, Santee Cooper’s ad in Power Engineering magazine advertises the sale of the used coal plant parts and the land surrounding the project.

“Power4Georgians’ EMCs* have already wasted millions of our dollars on the same outdated dirty coal technology,” said Katherine Helms Cummings, executive director of the Fall-line Alliance for a Clean Environment in Sandersville, where Power4Georgians has proposed a coal-fired plant. “A dirty, expensive coal plant is just as unnecessary for Georgia as it is for South Carolina.”

See the ad yourself:  https://www.santeecooper.com/portal/page/portal/santeecooper/aboutus/wp_sale

* Power4Georgians LLC was organized by Dwight Brown when he was CEO of Cobb EMC (Electric Membership Corporation) and includes Cobb EMC, Snapping Shoals EMC, and Central Georgia EMC, Upson EMC and Washington EMC. 

March 29, 2011

For Immediate Release

Contact:  Erin Glynn (404) 607-1262 x233

Katherine Helms Cummings (478) 232-8010

Gina Wiggins (229) 423-8630

Permits for Plant Washington Ignore the Shaky Ethical and Financial Footing of Cobb EMC

March 3, 2011

Power4Georgians and the state Environmental Protection Division continue to waste EMC members’ and taxpayers’ money by pursuing building two dirty coal plants in south Georgia. After water and air permits for a proposed coal plant near Sandersville were ruled illegal by a state court judge, on March 2, 2011 the EPD re-issued water withdrawal and pollution permits for the plant.

Cobb EMC (Electric Membership Corporation) and its errant CEO/ “consultant” Dwight Brown have already spent over $12 million of EMC members money on consultants to try to get the state to issue pollution permits. 

If they continue trying to build two coal plants in South Georgia, that money pit will run well over $4 billion dollars, and include thousands of tons of hazardous pollutants entering our waters and the loss of over 32 million gallons of water from our rivers and wells every day.

“It’s time that Georgians stand up for financial and environmental responsibility,” said Midge Sweet, director of Georgians for Smart Energy. “Can EMC members really be expected to trust people who are under indictment on charges of corruption, and whose plans will threaten the financial stability as well as the health and safety of our families now, and our children for generations to come?”