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Gas plant’s effects on health explained
['Guest Columnist']
The Farmville Herald
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...Dominion’s proposed massive, fracked gas plant’s 973-acre site is rural, zoned A2, on the James River close to Buckingham, across from Fluvanna, near large wetlands, upriver from Cobbs Creek Reservoir.
A locked-in, 36-year life of the second largest gas plant in the U.S. — equivalent to three gas plants — would be an investment gold-mine for Dominion.
In order to pollute at those levels, Dominion offers Cumberland’s people $25 million in tax revenues per year.
Best Available Control Technologies-BACT cannot stop uncontrolled systems’ methane emissions or plume events, cause of most ER visits by high emissions’ spikes (source: Lavoie, Tegan N., et al.
“Assessing the methane emissions from natural gas-fired power plants and oil refineries.”