Stop Brockton's Power Plant.
FACT: The proposed power plant would emit the same amount of greenhouse gas as
two hundred six thousand (206,000) automobiles.
CHECK: Certificate of the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (Page 3
Paragraph 3) READ NOW & EPA Emissions Facts (Page 2 Recommendations)
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FACT: This power plant is not needed to meet the energy demands of this region.
CHECK: Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board Hearing,
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FACT: The proponents have not demonstrated there would be no local health
impacts.
CHECK: Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board Hearing, January 29, 2009.
PART 2: WATCH VIDEO & Metcalf & Eddy Report (Page 5) READ NOW
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FACT: During normal operations there would be only three (3) to seven (7) workers
at the proposed plant.
CHECK: The Energy Facilities Siting Board Memorandum (Page 41). READ NOW
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FACT: The proposed plant will emit five of the six pollutants considered harmful to
public health and the environment.
CHECK: National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) READ NOW
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FACTS (HIGHLIGHTS):
A foreign based company and a group of local investors have been working discreetly
to gain approval to build a 200 million dollar, massive 350 megawatt fossil fuel power
plant (Natural Gas and Diesel) with a 250 foot smokestack and several cooling
towers off Brockton's Main Street, close to the towns of West and East Bridgewater.
This location is surrounded by Schools (Davis Elementary is only 1700 feet away),
Elderly Housing, Businesses and Thousands of Homes.
If They Build It, It Will Bring:
109 Tons per year Carbon Monoxide
10 Tons per year Hazardous Air Pollutants
85 Tons per year Particulate Matter
7 Tons per year Sulfur Dioxide
31 Tons per year Volatile Organic Compounds
107 Tons per year Oxides of Nitrogen
1,134,000 Tons per year Carbon Dioxide
1,600,000 Gallons of Treated Sewage Water Mist Into Our Air Everyday From
750,000 Gallons of diesel fuel will be stored at the plant, to replenish would require
37 Round Trips each day for 60 days by 10,000 gallon oil tankers delivering diesel.
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OTHER FACTS:
- Brockton’s power plant will not lower our taxes or our electric bills.
- Brockton is already ranked ninth (9th) on the list of environmentally overburdened
New England communities.
- Brockton is already one of the ten towns with the highest asthma hospitalization
rates in Massachusetts.
- The 250 foot smokestack will release toxic pollutants for miles and change
Brockton’s landscape.
- Brockton Power also proposes using diesel that releases twice the carbon dioxide as
the natural gas. 750,000 gallons of diesel fuel will be stored at the plant.
- Brockton Power will store 25,000 gallons of aqueous ammonia.
- There will only be 20 long term jobs created by this plant, and there is no
guarantee that those jobs will go to Brockton residents.
- The power plant will be built, owned and operated by a foreign based company that
will sell the electricity to the National Grid.