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Proposed Kennedy’s Gas Plant Draws Scrutiny Over Flooding, Equity and Cost Risks
Summary
Witnesses raised site-specific concerns about a proposed large combined-cycle plant at Kennedy’s on the Edisto River — including flood risk, community health impacts from prior coal operations, pipeline and transmission upgrades and uncertain cost consequences for ratepayers.
A proposed combined‑cycle gas plant at Kennedy’s on the Edisto River drew sustained criticism at a Senate Energy Subcommittee hearing, where witnesses warned the site has discrete risks, unclear cost estimates and would sit near a historically burdened community.
Robbie Maynor, who said he lives “about 2 miles upstream from the proposed site,” told the panel the Kennedy’s community has lived with pollution from a now‑retired coal plant and nearby Interstate 95. “Residents in Kennedy's have had to live with pollution from that coal plant for 50 years,” Maynor said. He added that utilities are seeking…
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