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| − | [[Southern Company]]'s Gadsden Steam Plant has 24,955 residents within a 3-mile radius and 3,487 within a one-mile radius; in the 3-mile radius, 49.9% of residents are non-white with a per capita income of $13,600, below the U.S. per capita income of $21,587,<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=D&-ds_name=D&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_GCTP14_US9&-format=CO-1 United States - Income and Poverty in 1999: 2000], U.S. Census Bureau, 2000.</ref> raising issues around [[environmental justice and coal]]. The plant does not have a [[scrubber]] to reduce emissions.<ref>[http://camddataandmaps.epa.gov/gdm/index.cfm Clean Air Markets - Data and Maps], U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2009.</ref> | + | [[Southern Company]]'s Gadsden Steam Plant has 24,955 residents within a 3-mile radius and 3,487 within a one-mile radius; in the 3-mile radius, 49.9% of residents are non-white with a per capita income of $13,600, below the U.S. per capita income of $21,587,<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=D&-ds_name=D&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_GCTP14_US9&-format=CO-1 United States - Income and Poverty in 1999: 2000], U.S. Census Bureau, 2000.</ref> raising issues around [[environmental justice and coal]]. The plant does not have a [[scrubber]] to reduce emissions.<ref>[http://camddataandmaps.epa.gov/gdm/index.cfm Clean Air Markets - Data and Maps], U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2009.</ref> Gadsden Steam Plant is among over 100 [[coal plants near residential areas]]. |
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Revision as of 16:17, 26 May 2010
{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}} Gadsden Steam Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Southern Company near Gadsden, Alabama.
As of March 2009, Alabama Power, an affiliate of Southern Company, was considering a switch to co-firing woody biomass and switchgrass at the plant.[1]
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Gadsden Steam Plant and Environmental Justice
Southern Company's Gadsden Steam Plant has 24,955 residents within a 3-mile radius and 3,487 within a one-mile radius; in the 3-mile radius, 49.9% of residents are non-white with a per capita income of $13,600, below the U.S. per capita income of $21,587,[2] raising issues around environmental justice and coal. The plant does not have a scrubber to reduce emissions.[3] Gadsden Steam Plant is among over 100 coal plants near residential areas.
Plant Data
- Owner: Alabama Power Company
- Parent Company: Southern Company
- Plant Nameplate Capacity: 138 MW (Megawatts)
- Units and In-Service Dates: 69 MW (1949), 69 MW (1949)
- Location: 1000 Goodyear Ave., Gadsden, AL 35903
- GPS Coordinates: 34.009396, -85.967952
- Coal Consumption:
- Coal Source:
- Number of Employees:
Emissions Data
- 2006 CO2 Emissions: 764,053 tons
- 2006 SO2 Emissions:
- 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
- 2006 NOx Emissions:
- 2005 Mercury Emissions:
Gadsden ranked 93rd on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste
In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill.[4] The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.[5]
Gadsden Steam Plant ranked number 93 on the list, with 249,740 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.[4]
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Joseph Romm, Biomassive plans: Southern Company embraces the only affordable way to 'capture' emissions at a coal plant today, Grist, March 19, 2009.
- ↑ United States - Income and Poverty in 1999: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau, 2000.
- ↑ Clean Air Markets - Data and Maps, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2009.
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 Sue Sturgis, "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?," Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.
- ↑ TRI Explorer, EPA, accessed January 2009.
- Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
- Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
- Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- Coal plant conversion projects
- Alabama and coal
- Southern Company
- United States and coal
- Global warming
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