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Resident tells council data‑center health study omits operational and cumulative risks
Summary
A resident told the Imperial City Council that the health‑risk assessment for a proposed data center covers only generator maintenance/testing, not extended operational use or cumulative impacts with the nearby IID gas plant, and called the proponent’s presentation of the report deceptive.
A resident, identified in the meeting record as Mr. Pel, urged the City Council on April 1 to scrutinize a data center proponent’s health‑risk assessment, saying it examined only maintenance‑and‑testing generator scenarios and omitted operational and cumulative exposures with a nearby IID gas generation plant.
"That health risk assessment only assessed the risk from one scenario and that's maintenance and testing of those generators," Mr. Pel said, adding that the proponent’s use of the report at a prior meeting was "deceptive" because…
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