TAKE ACTION: STOP KEMPER COAL

KEMPER COAL FLYERl–Rev. 2-20-12 (If you click on this link you can download the Flyer.  Please make copies and circulate to your neighborhood businesses, churches and others!)

In January, 2012, Mississippi Power asked the Public Service Commission for permission to increase your electric bill by 11.66 %. By the end of 2012, this increase could reach as high as 40%. Why?  Because in May 2010, the MS Public Service Commission gave MS Power permission to build the $2.88 billion Kemper County Lignite Coal Plant and its attendant 45-square mile strip mine as well as a five hundred acre dump for the toxic coal ash that will be created by this plant. 

And the cost for the Kemper County Coal Plant will and is coming out of your pocket.  The MS Power Company spent $11 million to change the law to allow the cost of this plant to be shifted from its stockholders to its customers, even if the plant is never put into service.  And by customers, they mean individual users and small business owners only, as shipyards, casinos, refineries and other large businesses have been guaranteed to have no rate increase as a result of building this plant. 

The attendant strip mine will adversely impact the Chickasawhay Creek, the Okatibbee Reservoir and the Pascagoula River as well as surrounding wetlands.  It will pollute the Mississippi Sound and, if the clean coal process does not work as planned it could become a major source of air pollution under the federal Clean Air Act. 

The Kemper County Coal Plant.  Bad for your pocketbook.  Bad for the environment. 

Stop Kemper Now.  Call, e-mail or write: 

Public Service Commissioner Central District                   Lynn Posey  (800) 356-6430        central.district@psc.state.ms.us 

Public Service Commissioner Southern District         Leonard Bentz  (800) 356-6429         southern.district@psc.state.ms.us 

Public Service Commissioner Northern District         Brandon Presley  (800) 356-6428      northern.district@psc.state.ms.us 

Mississippi Public Service Commissioner’s Office        Woolfolk Building   501 North West Street   Suite 201A   Jackson, MS   39201 

MS Power Company Media Relations Coordinator              Jeff Shepard  (228) 864-1611                                                                       

Information provided by Mississippians for Affordable Energy                ms.4.affordable.energy@gmail.com