25% of the plant’s $2 billion cost went to emissions control equipment.
The Associated Press reports:
“Our jobs are really on the line,” said Joseph Douglass, the environmental manager at the plant. It employs 95 people and has strong ties to local mines, quarries and trucking industries that employ as many as 500 more.
The facility is one of the nation’s newest and cleanest coal-fired power plants, with more than $500 million of its $2 billion price tag dedicated to environmental and air-quality controls.
The three most dangerous words in any language are: “Saving the planet”.