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Environmental activists wanting Gov. Perdue to stop power plant Environmental groups took to the media Tuesday in Savannah in an effort to stop the construction of the Longleaf power plant in Early County. According to an article in the Savannah Morning News, a handful of representatives from three environmental groups stood along River Street in front of cameras with a large inflatable coal power plant with smokestacks bearing labels such as "acid rain" and "mercury poisoning." The activists were calling on Gov. Sonny Perdue to stop the permitting of "a new coal-burning power plant in southwest Georgia's Early County." Jennette Gayer, an advocate for Environment Georgia, told the cameras the plant "would annually emit more than nine million tons of carbon dioxide, more than 240 pounds of mercury, 6,400 tons of sulfur dioxide and 3,700 tons of nitrogen dioxide, a major contributor to smog." The Savannah Morning News article stated the group would be staging similar media events in Macon and Columbus this week. A Sierra Club spokeswoman, Leah Edwards, said she has environmental justice concerns about where the plant will be located. She claimed that while produced in Georgia, much of the plant's electricity will be sold to communities in Alabama and Florida. She also stated, "Early County is the 11th most polluted county in our state, according to a toxic release inventory compiled by Georgia Pacific, and it's more than 50 percent African American," said Edwards.
"They're locating this in an impoverished community," Edwards
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