Power companies want a new gas mega-project in Colleton County, South Carolina. This project would cost billions of dollars, pollute the surrounding environment, and put customers on the hook for buying gas burned in the plant. Power companies are pushing lawmakers towards this option before considering cheaper, less risky alternatives.
These are the same players from the $9 billion VC Summer nuclear plant fiasco—a failed mega-project plagued by construction delays, cost overruns, and fraud that never generated a single electron. Customers paid billions for utilities to dig a hole…and fill it back in. It was a big risk, and customers paid. Now, power companies are hustling a similarly risky plant past decision-makers.
Tell your legislators to say no to risky projects that will cost us millions on our energy bills.
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SC conservation groups rip revised Statehouse plan to fast-track Lowcountry gas plant
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House advances bill fast-tracking natural gas plant over regulatory concerns
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