Time for a letter to IEPA regarding Reliant power plant
- IEPA accepts public comments till the end of April.
- Letters to IEPA with a copy to the Governor,
State Representatives and Senators are very effective!
Let your voice be heard!
Arguments to use:
- Reliant plant could satisfy air conditioning needs of
300,000 households - 1 million people - while projected growth
in both DuPage and Kane counties is 270,000 people over the next
20 years - the size of the plant is not compatible with the local
needs for the electricity.
- IEPA advocates that control over siting and number of peaker
power plants should rest in the hands of towns or counties -
neither Aurora nor DuPage county had any regulations established
prior to Reliant's acquisition of Butterfield area. Work on
the regulations began only very recently. We, citizens, were not
protected due to the logistic loophole in the deregulated system.
- 16,000 MW of additional generation capacity are already proposed
in Illinois, and many more power companies are descending on this
market. Majority of the plants go in unchallenged.
There will not be any power shortages in any forseeable future!
- 16,000 MW constitutes 50% increase in the state's capacity.
Capacity additions of this magnitude will adversely affect
the air we breath, our health, quality of life, and will cumulatively degrade
the environment.
We don't want to bear these costs, while the companies profit
and sell electricity to the whole Midwest.
- DuPage county air is already among 20% worst in US,
with ground level ozone exceeding safe limits dozen of
times.
- We would like to support energy efficiency and renewable
energy sources - these don't pollute and don't bankrupt the
environment.
Addresses:
Director Tom Skinner
IEPA,
1021 North Grand Ave E
Springfield, IL 62794
Brad Frost - IEPA
1021 N.Grand Ave East
Springfield, IL 62794
Governor George Ryan
207 Statehouse
Springfield, IL 62706
Senator Kirk Dillard (R41)
942 Maple Ave
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Senator Peter Roskam (R20)
500 Pennsylvania Ave
Glen Ellen, IL 60137
Representative Randall Hultgren (R40)
211 S.Wheaton Ave
Wheaton, IL 60187
Representative Mary Cowlishaw (R41)
552 S.Washington St, S119,
Naperville, IL 60504
More info,sample letters - www.angelfire.com/il2/PowerPlants
and www.angelfire.com/il2/NoPeakerPlants
