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Residents, Conservationists Warn of Health, Cost Risks from Proposed Kennedy's Gas Plant
Summary
Residents and conservation groups told a Senate subcommittee that the proposed Kennedy's combined-cycle gas plant could concentrate environmental and financial risks in an already burdened community and that permitting and cost details remain unclear.
Residents, conservation advocates and public-interest groups pressed the Senate Energy Subcommittee to scrutinize plans for a large combined-cycle gas plant near Kennedy's on the Edisto River, saying the project could create concentrated environmental and cost risks for a small, historically marginalized community.
Robbie Maynor of the Southern Environmental Law Center, who identified himself as a Kennedy's resident, said he lives about two miles upstream from the proposed site and described long-term local exposure to pollution from an earlier coal plant and Interstate 95. “Residents in Kennedy's have had to live with pollution from that coal plant for 50 years until it was closed,” Maynor said. He and other witnesses urged the committee not…
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