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Please help stop the rape of Mother Earth in the Bible Belt. Save Mississippi from the dragline! Invest in renewable energy sources and energy conservation, not dirty fossil fuels. Keep our air and water clean! Join the Save MS movement today! To learn the truth about strip mining with monstrous draglines look at the photos and maps below and join Save MS today!

Do you want to be breathing this stuff? I sure don't. Yet this is the quality of air you get from coal fired plants. Even when emissions are cut by using various methods to reduce or capture fumes, megatons of toxic pollutants still pour into the atmosphere. Plus other wastes may pollute the air,+ landscape, streams, rivers and wetlands creating terrible conditions and making vast areas uninhabitable or extremely dangerous and/or unhealthy for people and animals. This photo shows the W.A. Parish power plant in Thompsons, Texas, which has coal-fired and gas-fired units. Photo: AP

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Please help Save Mississippi. Stop the rape of Mother Earth in the Bible Belt by draglines! Stop the pollution of our air and rivers by big corporations and greedy, power hungry, corrupt politicians. Save Mississippi, your families and your children from the creation of a Hell on Earth in the form of a BIG HOLE north of Meridian that will turn the Piney Woods into a moonscape!

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The Rape of Mother Earth: A Photo is Worth a Thousand Words

These photos and maps reveal the scale of the Kemper Coal Mine project which is just over the horizon from Meridian and adjacent to the Okatibbee Dam and recreational area.

Kemper County Power Plant Site. The rape of Mother Earth has begun in Kemper County with the clearing of a large constructin site. What was once green pine forests where fireflies filled the summer twilight with their sparlking courtship dances, has rapidly turned into a desert landscape. Soon from the ground will sprout steel and concrete as a monsterous transformation brings forth yet another coal-powered plant at a time when the last thing that America needs is more fossil fuel power plants bellowing their toxins into the atmosphere. You may follow the construction of the Kemper County Power Plant on Flash Earth at Lat. 32° 39' 12.8" N Long. 88° 45' 23.3" W. just west off of HWY 493 in Kemper County about 20 miles north of Meridian which, no doubt, will experience an increase in respiratory problems in the not too distant future. Land for the site has been clearned and rapid progress is being made in construction of this coal-powered plant which will consume huge quantities of lignite coal that will be stripmined in the adjacent Chickasawhay floodplain.

Kemper Coal Mine will result in the rape of the Earth by giant draglines which will dig a BIG HOLE to excavate lignite to power a fossil fuel burning power plant that will be paid for by significantly raising the utility rates of the general public who had no vote in the matter. Raping the land in the center of the Bible Belt represents a crime against nature for the benefit of the rich and wealthy! This is a outrage upon the people of Mississippi which should have never been permitted and which should be immediately stopped. A better alternative is to invest the same money in energy conservation and alternative renewable energy sources that do not rape the Earth, pollute the air and water, or significantly increase the risk to the health and welfare of the public. Click to view area where Kemper Coal Mine is planned and to keep track of area as it is destroyed by draglines. Photo courtesy of Google Maps.

Red Alert! Dragline mining operations to excavate 45-square miles of Kemper and Lauderdale Counties for lignite coal at a rate of 275 acres/year (11,979,000 square feet) will turn much of the area into a moonscape, polluting streams, rivers and the air, causing great damage to the landscape by digging a 100 foot hole, creating ash pilings, and forever scaring the landscape. Do you want such a Hell on Earth in your backyard? Note: because the area excavated will be 100 feet deep, some 1,197,900,000 cubic feet (approximately 1.2 billion cubic feet) of earth will be removed each year! This is an gastronomical amount of earth and equates to digging a VERY BIG HOLE in the center of east Mississippi! This is such a BIG HOLE that it is indeed difficult for most people to comprehend. The fact that this was NOT emphasized in EPA permitting applications or made generally known to the public, represents the form of corruption that goes on when such permits are made. Also, when you realize how big a hole will be dug, you know that the land will not ever be reclaimed, because it would be too expensive to try to fill back up the hole. An artificial lake may be created, but the land itself will never be restored to how it was before the BIG HOLE was dug.

Red Alert! Stop the Rape of Mississippi Landscapes!
By Terry Lynch, Naturalist and Photographer

Did you know someone is planning to rape Mississippi? Did you know someone is planning to rape the Bible Belt? Did you know that this little piece of Heaven we have right here in Mississippi, this Garden of Eden that is the Piney Woods, will soon be raped and destroyed for all time!

If Mississippi were your daughter would you want someone to rape her? I think not. Yet that is exactly what the powers to be plan to do. Targeted for rape is 45-square miles of the Chickasawhay River floodplain in Kemper County. Plans are upon the drawing boards to clear cut and strip mine this vast expanse of God's country, to dig a 100 foot deep hole and turn this vast expanse of Bible Belt paradise into a moonscape, a desolate wasteland, that can never be fully returned to its former pristine virginity.

How can the people of Mississippi allow the rape of God's good earth in this manner? Have you ever seen a strip mining operation? Do you realize this will destroy the Chickasawhay River floodplain and threaten its watershed which extends all the way to the Pascagoula? Do you realize that the burning of mega tons of wet, fossil wood called lignite will result in over five hundred acres of land being used as a dump for hazardous coal ash from the plant? What happens if a tornado comes along, lifts this toxic ash into the sky and spreads it over vast areas of Mississippi and Alabama? Plus the emissions from this plant will not really be 100% clean. The Department of Energy estimates that lignite mining will increase air pollution by 68 percent in the surrounding area, mainly in the form of diesel fumes and fugitive dust from loading and hauling the lignite. In fact, the plant will be classified as a major source of air pollution under the federal Clean Air Act. Plus the Kemper coal plant will emit as much as sixty-three pounds of mercury per year, even after pollution control technology is used. Over time that’s enough toxic mercury to contaminate thousands of waterbodies and million of pounds of fish.

Potential for an area disaster will be significantly increased due to the daily transport of highly concentrated 93% sulfuric acid by fleets of 25 to 33 trucks per day each carrying 50 tons of toxic chemicals! Narrow country roads used by logging trucks and the general public unaware of the dangers are not suitable for such daily over usage by fleets of trucks carrying hazardous wastes. Plus this could represent an extreme danger and threat to the area and its residents should an accidental spill occurs on the highway or at hazardous chemical storage facilities. Why was construction of a power plant permitted which would generate such large quantities of hazardous materials without providing for their safe and secure removal, transport and disposal? Given this was not done the public has been put at get risk. Was this permitted that corrupt politicians or other parties might profit from waste generated at the power plant?

Why are we so ignorant as to allow politicians to lie to us and permit the rape of Mississippi and Mother Earth in this manner? Who is really getting rich off of the rape of Mississippi? It certainly is not the consumers, as rates are going to be raised to cover construction of this monstrous, earth raping, air and water polluting plant. Sure some people may get jobs, but do you realize that more jobs could be created by investing in energy conservation for homes and offices, and that we could save more energy through such conservation efforts than this earth raping monster will ever generate!

I have traveled widely and seen a number of strip mining operations. I've even flown over such operations and witnessed Mother Earth, this precious Garden of Eden, being turned into a moonscape by giant dragline operations. In fact, in effort to help save Mother Earth and reclaim land destroyed by strip mining, I was employed by a major consultant firm in Florida. I drew up the land usage, planning, and reclamations maps for one of the largest phosphate mining operations in the world. This experience and the fact that I have researched the Kemper County coal mine, having reviewed the environmental impact statement, makes me quite aware of the great challenge such a large project presents. It is going to greatly impact the environment and be a significant challenge reclaim the land once strip mined. I am not convinced that an accurate assessment was made to permit strip mining, especially with regard to the biodiversity in the area, nor that employment has been made of those in our area with the most experience to administer the reclamation of the land planned for destruction. Hence I question the wisdom of permitting our Mother Earth to be so raped and devastated in the Bible Belt.

When Jesus was upon the cross he asked, "Father, why have you forsaken me?" We may now ask that same question of our governor and our representatives who permitted this raping of Mississippi. To allow the strip mining of Mississippi virgin piney woods, the pollution of its water and air, by a fire breathing dragon, by an earth raping monster, is sacrilegious! It is immoral and greed driven! It is big money and big power screwing the little guy, taking from what God gave unto us all for the profit of a few to fill their coffers at our expense.

Please wake up people! Strip mining of 1.2 billion cubic feet per year of God's good earth in Mississippi should be outlawed and NOT permitted under any circumstances or fallacious reclamation permits. If you want to help Mississippi urge your legislators to stop the permitting of strip mining in Mississippi, to outlaw such raping of Mississippi, of this that is indeed a Garden of Eden and a piece of Heaven on Earth!

I have started a petition on Change.org. I am asking everyone who cares about God's country to please join in the effort to stop the rape of Mississippi. Please sign the petition to prohibit strip mining in Kemper County and to save the Chickasawhay floodplain and eastern Mississippi from those who would rape her land and pollute her air and water.

Terry Lynch
Save MS
5 Aug. 2011

Strip Mining

A photograph is worth a thousand words, and that is certainly true when it comes to strip mining which rapes the earth. The photos below show what strip mining does to the earth, raping, destroying, and polluting virgin landscapes, turning them to moonscapes.

Dragline mining coal creates a vast moonscape, forever scaring the landscape, leaving huge canyons or piles of debris, creating uninhabitable areas, polluting streams and rivers, and virtually raping the Earth.

Spy in Sky photo of dragline mining operation at Red Hill Mine in Ackerman, Mississippi, reveals vast landscape that has been raped and plundered to excavate millions of tons of lignite coal. This is a relatively small operation compared to the much larger project planned for Kemper County, Mississippi, just over the hill from Meridian and adjacent to the Okatibbee Dam and recreational area. PHOTO courtesy of Click to view strip mine operation north of Ackerman, MS..

Strip mining dragline north of Ackerman, Mississippi. At Red Hills Mine the earth is being raped to mine lignite coal. The North American Coal Corporation’s Red Hills Mine in Ackerman, Mississippi, began production in the fourth quarter 2000. Red Hills Mine delivers approximately 3.5 million tons of coal per year. The operation utilizes a Marion® 8200 dragline and a P&H 2800 Shovel for overburden removal and reclaims about 120 acres of land annually. (Source: Red Hills Mine) PHOTO courtesy of Google Maps.

Occidental Chemical Corp. Strip mining for phosphates north of White Springs, Florida, has created a vast wasteland. Much of the area has been left forever scared by draglines which have removed great pits of landcover forever defacing Mother Earth. Such pools of defaced and scared landscape create unnatural conditions which may never be suitable for human or animal habitation. (Source: Google Maps)

Occidental Chemical Corp. Using draglines to strip mine phosphates has created a vast wasteland in north Florida. This photo shows vast scarring of Mother Earth done by dragline operations which have left great holes and depressions that have filled with turbid, polluted water which is a danger to all animals and birds in the area. Such vast wastelands are often the result of draglines that are permitted by environmental impact statements that use tricks, deception, and clever wording to aquire EPA permitting or government sanction, yet never really go back and reclaim the land as promised. (Source: Google Maps)

Below the densely forested slopes of southern West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains is a layer cake of thin coal seams. To uncover this coal profitably, mining companies engineer large—sometimes very large—surface mines. This image of a surface mine in Boone County, West Virginia from 1984. Based on data from NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, this natural-color (photo-like) image document the Hobet mine in 1984. The natural landscape of the area is dark green, forested mountains, creased by streams and indented by hollows. The active mining areas appear off-white, while areas being reclaimed with vegetation appear light green. A pipeline roughly bisects the images from north to south. The town of Madison, lower right, lies along the banks of the Coal River. Photo date: 18 September 1984 Source NASA

Below the densely forested slopes of southern West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains is a layer cake of thin coal seams. To uncover this coal profitably, mining companies engineer large—sometimes very large—surface mines. This image of a surface mine in Boone County, West Virginia from 2009. Based on data from NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, this natural-color (photo-like) image document the Hobet mine in 2009. The natural landscape of the area is dark green, forested mountains, creased by streams and indented by hollows. The active mining areas appear off-white, while areas being reclaimed with vegetation appear light green. A pipeline roughly bisects the images from north to south. The town of Madison, lower right, lies along the banks of the Coal River. Photo date: 2 June 2009. Source NASA.

A picture of a mountaintop removal site. Photo taken 11/2/07. Source: Friend's work: Author J.W. Randolph.

Valley fill - Mountaintop removal coal mining in Martin County, Kentucky. Photo taken 6 June 2006. Source: Flashdark

Drag lines can remove truck loads of earth with each scoop and in the process they rape the earth leaving a moonscape. To permit such raping of the earth companies often employ environmental consulting firms which have experts so skilled in data manipulation and processing that they could probably get the EPA to permit mining such treasures as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone N.P. or the Washington Mall if there were enough profits to be made.

Giant dragline removing mountains of earth to get at coal creates a vast area of desolation. Such strip mining is very profitable and is used to collect valuable minerals such as phosphates as well as fossil fuels such as coal. Yet the landscape is forever altered and destroyed making many areas uninhabitable.

Draglines use giant shovels that can remove entire truck loads of material in each huge scoop. These are loaded into super size trucks or train cars for hauling away. Earth so mined often creates a waste land that, though it may be reclaimed, arguably can never be returned to its former, original virgin nature and forever scars the Earth.

Dragline operation creates moonscape near Beulah, North Dakota. This aerial view shows how a giant dragline used in open-pit stripmining for lignite devistates Mother Earth. Removing the lignite destroys the natureal filter system which took millions of years to create such that runoff into rivers and watersheds will not be as pure as before the natural geological features were destroyed. Mining companies are able to get away with raping Mother Earth because billion dollar industries pay for production of documents to permit their operations and/or fund political lobbying groups, and candidates which support their operations and/or may profit directly or indirectly from mining operations, fossil fueled power plants, or other industry. Such corruption empowers the big mining companies to rape Mother Earth and steal what is basically natural resources which belong to all the people. (Source: Google Maps)

Dragline cuts deep gash in Mother Earth south of Martin Lake near Hallsville, Texas. Surrounding grasslands, forests and farmlands have been devestated and destroyed by draglines. (Source: Google Maps)

Air pollution billows into the atmosphere from a fossil fuel power plant near Hallsville, Texas. Lignite coal is excavated by draglines in massive quantities in order to keep the power plant running 24 hours a day 365 days a year, year after year, an endless process that results in the continueous and horrible rape of Mother Earth, resulting in the destruction of the natural aquifer and filtration system that had taken millions of years to create. The toxic fumes and hazardous chemicals billowing into the air may cause many people downwind to suffer bronchitis, pulmonary fibrosis, or even lung cancer over time. (Source: Google Maps)

Dragline turns Texas landscape into desert. Huge dragline near Martin Lake, Hallsville, Texas, rapes the earth excavating lignite, turning the surrounding landscape into a desert moonscape. The small patches of green on the left show you what the entire forested area use to look like before Mother Earth was raped by the draglines. (Source: Google Maps)

Air pollution from fossil fuel power plant near Coushatta, LA. A dense plum 1030 long containing toxic chemicals billows into the atmosphere from a fossil fuel power plant near Coushatta, Louisiana. Promoters of coal fueled power plants boost that they produce "clean energy." What do you think? The problem is that these type of power plants feed off of lignite coal (and/or gas) and have an insatiable appetite. They operate continueously, burning coal 24 hours per day 365 days a year, year after year. Hence thy pour tons of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere over time. Plus the draglines which stripmine the countryside rape Mother Earth, destroying the natural topography and forever altering the subsurface geology that took millions of years to create. By removing lignite and destroying the natural physiography of the earth, nature's filtering system is forever destroyed. This means that toxic chemicals may no longer be removed from ground water in areas that have been stripmined. This creates a growing problem because the stripmines and power plants actually create endless amounts of toxic chemicals and pollution that may enter the water. Plus, downwind from the power plants the toxic fumes and hazardous chemicals billowing into the air may cause many people to suffer bronchitis, pulmonary fibrosis, or even lung cancer over time. (Source: Google Maps)

Dragline near Coushatta, Louisiana, tears scar into Mother Earth. Large areas of Louisiana which are prime land for farming are being turned to moonscapes by dragline operations mining for lignite. Such draglines forever destroy the natural physiography of the earth and natural water filtering systems which took millions of years to create. This results in greater concentrations of toxic chemical in the ground water over time because the lignite which once filtered the water is now gone. (Source: Google Maps)

Coal-fueled Power Plants Are Hazardous To Your Health

Coal-fuel power plants represent a clear and present danger and are hazardous to your health. People need to organize and file claims against big power companies to make them pay for the health hazards and injuries they are doing to people who live close to or downwind from such plants which may cause hurt or harm. This is especially true in rural areas where the big power companies have exploitated poor and impoverished people and been able to gain permitting for coal-fuel power plants as well as in areas where there are high concentrations of coal-fueled power plants.

Map of existing coal-fired power plants in USA

The number of coal-fired power plants in the United States has increased over time, meaning that the pollution generated by coal-fired power plants has steadily increased over time. Because coal-fired power plants emit toxic chemicals into the atmosphere which may be hazardous to your health and which may cause or exacerbates respiratory illnesses, the operation of such fossil fuel power plants may adversely effect the long-term health and welfare of many people, especially those who live in closest proximity to such toxic air polluting power plants. Those who wish to learn more about this critical issue may wish to review exisiting coal-fired power plants in the USA to see where such air polluters are located and what their proxcimity to your home and family may be.

Morrow Generating Plant near Hattiesburg, Mississippil (Source: Google Maps)

Recently Morrow Generating Plant, southeast of Hatteisburg, Mississippi, was was found to be responsible for death and disease attributable to fine particle pollution from its coal-fired power plant.

In 2010, Abt Associates issued a study commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, quantifying the deaths and other health effects attributable to fine particle pollution from coal-fired power plants. Fine particle pollution consists of a complex mixture of soot, heavy metals, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. Among these particles, the most dangerous are those less than 2.5 microns in diameter, which are so tiny that they can evade the lung's natural defenses, enter the bloodstream, and be transported to vital organs. Impacts are especially severe among the elderly, children, and those with respiratory disease. The study found that over 13,000 deaths and tens of thousands of cases of chronic bronchitis, acute bronchitis, asthma, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, dysrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, and pneumonia each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. coal plant emissions. These deaths and illnesses are major examples of coal's external costs, i.e. uncompensated harms inflicted upon the public at large. Low-income and minority populations are disproportionately impacted as well, due to the tendency of companies to avoid locating power plants upwind of affluent communities. To monetize the health impact of fine particle pollution from each coal plant, Abt assigned a value of $7,300,000 to each 2010 mortality, based on a range of government and private studies. Valuations of illnesses ranged from $52 for an asthma episode to $440,000 for a case of chronic bronchitis. Source: SourceWatch.org

What this means is that other coal-fueled power plants and the companies that own them are equally responsible for the hurt, harm and even death they are causing to people who have been exposed to their pollution. Hence there is precident set for filing claims against the biggest polluters, one of which is the Southern Company, which has a very bad track record with respect to the operation of coal-fueled power plants and the amount of toxic chemical they have produced and released into the atmosphere and the environment. Hence citizens groups and enviornmentalist groups need to organize and join with legal firms to make civil claims against Southern Company and other companies which have been responsible for polluting the environment via coal-fired power plants.

There are many, many other coal-fired power plants which have operated for long periods of times pouring pollution into the atmosphere contributing to the poor health of people who live in the area or downwind from such power plants.

Deerhaven Power Plant north of Gainesville, Florida. Toxic vapors billow constantly 24/7 from this coal-fired power plant north of Gainesville, Florida, adding a constant mist of pollution to the air. Florida had 30 coal-fired generating units at 14 locations in 2005, with 11,382 megawatts (MW) of capacity - representing 18.8% of the state's total electric generating capacity. (Source: SourceWatch.org) It is the proliforation of coal-fired power plants which is particularly hazardous to one's health over time, as even though the atmosphere dilutes such toxic fumes, and others are percipitated or washed out of the atmosphere by rain, as the number of coal-fired power plants increases with time, the concentrations of airborn chemicals in the air and the probabibility that one may breath toxic fumes increases, meaning that down the road as people age their chances of developing bronchitis, pulmonary fibrosis or other respiratory problems increase. (Source: Google Maps)

All coal-fired power plants and their owners need to be held accountable for the hurt, harm and injury they have caused. Victims and their families need to be fairly compensated, such that the companies responsible for the pollution be made to pay medical bills, health insurance, and all other costs for damaged incurred by those who have polluted the air and water causing hurt and harm to people. This is a just cause and it demands that people everywhere who may have been hurt and harmed by owners and operators of coal-fired power plants stand up together and file claims against the polluters and rapers of Mother Earth!

Figure PF. How many respiratory illnesses or deaths may be attributed to coal-fired plants in the United States? The map above gives you an indication. This map was produced by superimposing a map of coal-fired plants over a map of deaths of decendents of coal workers who died between 1968-2007 from Pneumoconiosis. (Number of Deaths Multiple Cause-of-Death data for the total number of decedents with any mention of any of the following respiratory conditions coded on the entity axis: Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis (ICDA-8 code 515.1, ICD-9 code 500, or ICD-10 code J60) All Races (combined) and Both Sexes (combined), U.S. Residents, Ages 15 and Older, 1968 - 2007 . NOTE: No adjustments have been made to account for any potential variation in the classification of respiratory conditions across ICD revisions. Source: National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System, CDC, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Division of Respiratory Disease Studies)

The above map, Figure PF, shows an ominous relationship to the location of coal-fired plants and increased number of deaths due to a particular respiratory illness, Pneumoconiosis. This would be expected. One may then infer with a high degree of probability that the general public living in the vacinity or downwind from coal-fired power plants would suffer an increased incidence of all forms of respiratory illness the most sensitive of individuals being at greatest risk or most likely to die of their illness, especially as they advance in age.

Given this enlightenment, the public should call for new laws to stop the construction and usage of coal-fired power plants in all states, and to begin a process of moving away from coal-fired power plants to alternative forms of clean energy like solar, wind, geothermal, or hydroelectric. Also efforts to invest in energy conservation industries should be made so as to greatly reduce our need for energy by reducing the waste of energy, as through homes that leak energy and may benefit from improved insulation.

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Save Mother Earth! No Draglines In My Backyard -- Please help promote this good cause. Draglines and strip mines cause air and water pollution and create hazardous waste. The same is true of fossil fuel burning power plants. Draglines, strip mines and fossil fuel burning power plants should be prohibited in all 50 states within 50 miles of cities and counties having a population over 5,000 people. Please help raise awareness by saying to everyone, "Save Mother Earth! No Draglines In My Backyard"
Change.org -- Visit Change.org and sign petitions to support vital causes and issues.
Mississippi Power’s Kemper County Coal Plant -- Sierra Club's review of Kemper County Coal Plant
Kemper County IGCC plant "on schedule and budget" -- Construction of Mississippi Power Co.'s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant in Kemper County is on schedule and on budget. Editor's note: At $2.4 billion, the nominal 600MW Kemper County plant will cost $4000/kW to build. A new natural gas fired combined cycle plant would cost less than one-quarter of that amount. For the total cost of energy (covering investment, fuel cost and other operating expenses) to be the same, natural gas price would have to climb from the current $4 per million Btu to about four times that level. Although those high prices are paid for natural gas today in places like Japan, plentiful supplies in the US are expected to keep the price low for the foreseeable future.
The Kemper Project -- This Wiki site presents information and links regarding the Kemper Project
Hard to see how power plant decision was a good call -- Will Watson, Ph.D. of Long Beach, CA, questions how permit of Kemper Plant was a good call.
Corp Ethics -- The ethics of many corporate projects is explored and reviewed that one may better understand what is at stake when it comes to profit vs. exploitation of our natural resources
Petitions -- This site has links to petitions and promotional resources for good causes.
Mountain Top Removal Mining -- Learn how Mountain Top Removal (MTR) mining is destroying vast areas in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Virgin Forest Preservation Act -- Support the adoption of a Virgin Forest Preservation Act to help protect virgin forests from clear cutting and strip mining.
Final Environmental Impact Statement Kemper County Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle (IGCC) Project: Volume 1, DOE/EIS-0409 (May 2010) (pdf) -- This is the original environmental impact statement for the Kemper County Coal Mine and Power Plant. The Second Volume has many additional maps, charts, diagrams and supporting documents.

This Final EIS assesses the potential environmental impacts that would result from a proposed DOE action to provide cost-shared funding and possibly a loan guarantee for construction and operation of advanced power generation plant in Kemper County, Mississippi. The project was selected under DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative to demonstrate IGCC technology. DOE also invited Mississippi Power Company to submit an application for the Kemper County IGCC Project to the Loan Guarantee Program during 2008. Assessment of a prospective loan guarantee is currently in progress. The power generation components (i.e., coal gasifiers, synthesis gas [syngas] cleanup systems, combined-cycle unit, and supporting infrastructure) would convert coal into syngas to drive gas combustion turbines, and hot exhaust gas from the gas turbines would generate steam from water to drive a steam turbine. Combined, the three turbines would generate a nominal 582 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Although DOE funding would support only the IGCC power plant, the project would include new electrical power transmission lines and upgrades of some existing transmission lines, a surface lignite mine, a natural gas supply pipeline, a reclaimed water supply pipeline, and a carbon dioxide pipeline. The construction and operation of these facilities are considered connected actions in this Final EIS. The Final EIS evaluates potential impacts of the proposed facilities on air quality, geology, water resources, flood- plains, wetlands, ecological resources, land use, aesthetics, social and economic resources, waste management, noise, and human health and safety. The EIS also evaluates potential impacts on these resource areas for the no-action alternative, under which DOE would not provide cost-shared funding or a loan guarantee and the power plant and connected action facilities would likely not be built. (Source: Energy.gov Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance )
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