There are other

hazardous air pollutants emitted by gas-fired power plants, such as sulfur

dioxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia, arsenic, beryllium, and volatile organic

compounds (VOCs, benzene and sulfuric acid).

These other

pollutants will amount to about 3,000 tons per year and they won't be

offsetting these!

A similar power

plant of size and technology in Murray County has stated in their application

that their potential emissions are 605 tons per year of particulate matter

(soot and other aerosols), 570 tons per year of nitrogen oxide (smog contributor),

2,124 tons of carbon monoxide, 236 tons of sulfur dioxide, 355 tons of

VOCs (smog contributors), and less than a ton of sulfuric acid.

Williams' numbers

may be somewhat different, but don't think the air is getting better.

What Williams should provide is a grant to the community to do an

unbiased air model to show how much of this air pollution will come down

on the community, especially with Christian City so close.

There are other

facts that Williams can't seem to get straight either. First we heard

that the four stacks would be 18 stories high, now they're 21 stories

tall.

They originally

promised 200 acres of green space, now it's less than a hundred. They

said it would be one facility, now there will very likely be an expansion.

We saw one power plant building in the original picture (which they called

"a correct artist's rendition"), now their own report says there

will be an additional "administration building, water treatment building,

a natural gas metering building, a warehouse and other miscellaneous buildings

tanks for chemicals as well as holding tanks for treated and untreated

water."

Williams representatives

were asked what they would do with the cemetery on site and responded

improvement means that they will dig up the dead people and move them

somewhere else. (I hope my remains can stay in one spot till the Lord

returns.)

We appreciate

the fact that Williams may be in the development phase and may not have

all the answers, but they are the intruders here. They need to get their

facts straight.

The Rev. Dr.

Randy Colver

Pastor, Atlanta

City Church

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