Handy List of 48 New/Planned Gas-Fired Plants in PA, Courtesy FWW
The radicals of Food & Water Watch (FWW), a disgusting organization, have done us all a huge favor! FWW is composed of some of the worst of the worst when it comes to anti-fossil fuel nuttery. They oppose everything, including low-carbon natural gas, if it's called a fossil fuel. FWW issued a new "report" last week taking aim at the growing number of Marcellus gas-fired electric plants sprouting up around the state, replacing dirtier coal-fired plants. Only in the mind of a demented liberal is coal better for the environment than natgas. But we digress. FWW's report is called "Pernicious Placement of Pennsylvania Power Plants: Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Boom Reinforces Environmental Injustice." Those alliterations are just ingenious, aren't they? As part of the report, FWW published a comprehensive list of 48 planned, under construction, or recently commissioned gas-fired power plant projects in the Keystone State. Wow! What a great list! We've extracted the list itself and shared it below (so you don't have to endure the full report). The focus of the report is the baseless charge FWW (and others) make that new power plant projects are built in poor, black areas--where the downtrodden can't fight back against the machine that is Big Oil/Gas. FWW includes a map (see it below) that charts where "communities of color" (meaning concentrations of black people) live in the state, along with dots that show where existing and planned gas-fired plants are located. Take a look at the dots for planned plants. Almost none of them are near "communities of color!" Whoops. Some intern wasn't paying attention when she drafted the report...
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