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Residents and environmental groups urge thorough review of proposed Kennedy's gas plant, citing health, flood and procedural risks
Summary
Residents of Kennedy's, conservation groups and nearby community members told a Senate subcommittee that a proposed large combined‑cycle gas plant at Kennedy's could worsen local air pollution, flood risk and economic inequities. They asked lawmakers not to pre‑approve siting and to require full permitting review and transparent cost estimates.
Residents and environmental groups told a South Carolina Senate energy subcommittee that a proposed large gas plant at Kennedy's and related pipeline work require full environmental review and tighter procedural protections.
Robbie Maynor, policy staff with the Southern Environmental Law Center and a resident of Kennedy's, said he lives about "2 miles upstream from the proposed site of the new gas plant" and urged caution. "Candies is a very small rural community located along the Edisto River... People have lived in this community for over 150 years," Maynor said, asking the subcommittee not to treat an IRP entry as a siting endorsement.
Why it matters: Witnesses said a mega‑plant at Kennedy's would bring air emissions, compressor‑station impacts and pipeline expansion that could affect public health and local natural resources in a historically…
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