New Jersey-based LS Power Proposes Coal Plant in Rural Georgia

New Jersey-based LS Power has proposed to build a a 1200 megawatt (MW) coal plant near Albany, Georgia, Longleaf Energy Station.

First proposed in 2001, the Longleaf Energy Station is a project of New Jersey-based LS Power.  LS Power seeks to construct this 1200 megawatt coal fired power plant in Early County, a rural depressed area of Georgia that borders Alabama and Florida.  Given the location of the plant and proximity to transmission lines and a nearby nuclear plant, we believe that LS Power anticipated selling the energy to Florida where efforts to prevent the construction of new coal-fired power plants have been successful.  

GreenLaw, Sierra Club and Friends of the Chattahoochee have brought a series of lawsuits to protect our air quality and public health.  This plant would emit 9 million tons of carbon dioxide and tens of thousands of tons of other pollutants that cause respiratory problems, heart attacks, asthma attacks and premature death. 

As a result of these efforts (the longest battle on a new coal plant in the nation), LS Power has not been able to commence construction on the Longleaf Energy Station.

For more information on the fight to stop the pollution from this merchant facility in southwest Georgia, visit GreenLaw's website.