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Dominion Seeks Approval for Power Station in Southwest Virginia Page 2 of 2 B The possiDle beneficial I-ecycling of combustion isy,-products for t:ne rnazufacturi3g of cament, 7-&- , , ,'; ~brnpany -_I 3ke IS ccrrnrnitted to ;-esci?ing a goal of havin~ 12 Zercsnt of its electricity CG;?X from miewable rescurces by 2022 and to helping ths conimonwea!ti ce;.eicp a comprehensive iong-term energy ccnservation pian as d~recred by tlie Gened Assernbi y. The station wiil be mated cn 2 1,XC-acre site near 5t. Paul in Wise County. 3 would prob*;ide eriougn power to serve 145,000 residentiai custonws. Ui;c;e:' a state iaw encwraging the construction of the station, it vicsi3 be powered by Virgnia CG~:. The srarion would en?pioy up to 8CO workers during constrdction. Once con-@&e, :ne station wouici i?2ve 75 full-Wne employees, and it ako would create about 350 rr!ii:iny jobs ir: the area.
A proposed Wise County, Va., 'clean coal' power plant could be among Virginia's Top I O polluters httn:~~~~f~~.tricities. corn/tristafe/tri!news. Pri ntView .-content-a rticles-TR f -2007- 10-21 -0025, htm I Sunday, Oct 21,2007 - 02:OO AM By Rex Bowman, Media General News Setvice A $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant proposed for Wise County is touted by the utility company that wants to build it as an eco-friendly "clean coal" model of environmental design. But if built to the company's specifications, it would be one of the biggest air polluters in Virginia, according to documents filed with the state. The plant would give Dominion Virginia Power an extra 585 megawatts of power. enough to support 146,000 new homes. The proposed Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center would be allowed to pump more than 12,500 tons - or 25 million pounds - of pollution into the air each year if Dominion Virginia Power goes through with its plans. The pollutants include nitrogen oxides, an ingredient of smog; sulfur dioxide, a major cause of acid rain: and carbon monoxide, which can pose serious breathing problems for those with respiratory ailments. The emissions are in addition to the 5.3 million tons of carbon dioxide the plant could discharge annually, according to company officials. Carbon dioxide, though recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a greenhouse gas, is not regulated as a pollutant. Dominion Virginia Power points out, however, that the Wise facility would pollute less than do older plants. The utility is allowed to call the power plant a "clean coal" operation under rules laid down by the U.S. Department of Energy, which is encouraging utilities to use certain coal technologies by giving the technologies the envi ronmen ta 1 I y-friendly sticker. But environmentalists fighting to stop state approval of the power plant say the "clean coal" label, though sanctioned by the federal government, is a deceptive marketing practice that could dampen opposition to the plant even though its construction could spell disaster for the ecosystem of Appalachian Virginia, If approved by the State Corporation Commission, the plant would join other coal-fired power plants at the top of the list of roughly 2,000 polluters monitored by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. "Any time the utility industry adopts a really effective messaging strategy, it makes our lives more difficult," said Matt Wasson of Appalachian Voices, one of several groups opposing the power plant. "The label of clean coal is, in my
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