TELL NEVADA'S GOVERNOR TO ISSUE A MORATORIUM ON NEW PROPOSED COAL PLANTS UPWIND FROM UTAH.

Background

The state of Nevada is proposing three monstrous electricity-generating, coal burners just over the border from Utah. Together the new White Pine Energy Station and the Ely Energy Center would produce over 4,000 megawatts of power, enough for over 200,000 new homes in sprawling Las Vegas. These plants would be located approximately 150 miles (as the crow flies) upwind from the Wasatch Front and immediately upwind of Great Basin National Park. The Toquop Energy Plant (pronounced Towkwop), a 750-MW coal plant would be located just outside of Mesquite, Nevada and immediately upwind from St. George and Washington County.

In terms of new coal power concentration, this is one of the largest proposed in the nation. And two remarkable ironies are that while Nevada has no coal industry (all of the coal would be shipped in from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming), it has some the best available solar resources in the world. Once again King Coal is calling the shots when it comes to future energy supplies, at the expense of our health and the planet.

Take Action

It’s time that Nevada uses its vast clean resources that will help clean our region’s air! Please consider sending a letter to Governor Jim Gibbons with the following message, or one of your own. Then cc your letter to the additional officials listed below.

Dear Governor Gibbons,

Utah is working hard to clean up our dirty air and prevent more asthma, pulmonary disease, and other respiratory problems associated with air pollution. We are also taking steps to address our growing mercury problem. The three new coal-fired power plants proposed in your state will only make the problems worse. I ask you to please use clean energy to meet your energy demand in Nevada. The pollution in Nevada doesn’t just stay in Nevada. Please consider the effects to those of us downwind before these plants are permitted and built. In the meantime, Nevada should instead engage in opportunities to develop clean renewables such as solar power, wind, geothermal and energy conservation.

Thank you,

Governor Jim Gibbons
State Capitol
101 N. Carson Street
Carson City, NV 89701
(775) 684-5670
Fax: (775) 684-5683
Post an email at http://gov.state.nv.us/ContactUs_NORTH.htm

Nevada Congressman Dean Heller, 2 nd District
Post an email at http://heller.house.gov/zipauth.shtml
Las Vegas Office
600 Las Vegas Blvd., Suite 680
Las Vegas, NV 89101
702-255-1651 (Office)
702-255-1927 (Fax)

Senator Harry Reid
Las Vegas Office
Lloyd D. George Building
333 Las Vegas Boulevard
South, Suite 8016
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: 702-388-5020
Fax: 702-388-5030
Post an email at http://reid.senate.gov/contact/email_form.cfm

Nevada Division of Environmental Protection
Bureau of Air Quality Planning
Jennifer Carr, Bureau Chief
901 South Stewart Street
Suite 4001
Carson City, NV 89701-5249
Phone: 775/687-4670 (direct line is 687-9346)
Send an e-mail to jcarr@ndep.nv.gov

You can also send a short letter to the editor of the Nevada newspapers whose email addresses are list below.

Talking points:

• Coal is not the energy of the future.
• Nevada is blessed with ample sun and geothermal resources
• Consider the effects of these huge plants on those of us downwind in Utah.
• Coal plants are huge water users, something that is even more precious in the West and during a drought. And it will only get worse with climate changes.

Newspapers where letters to the editor can be submitted

Las Vegas Sun
letters@lasvegassun.com

Reno Gazette Journal
http://www.rgj.com/helpdesk/news/letter_to_editor.php

Nevada Appeal
Send letter from this address-
http://apps.nevadaappeal.com/forms/letter/index.php

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