MeigsCAN Issues: What we're facing

Background: Our Community and what we're facing

From the culture to the coal seems, Meigs County, Ohio, is a part of Appalachia. Self-sufficient gardens grow in many a yard, and diverse woodlands create habitat for rare animals and native edible and medicinal herbs.

Clean springs, productive farms, and the precise knowledge of families who have worked the same land for generations make Meigs one of the few places in the US to still support a sustainable way of life.

The concentration of extractive and polluting industry here threatens our renewable resources and way of life!

Meigs County, Ohio, is being turned into an environmental sacrifice zone that threatens our health, safety, and futures. These are some of the main issues that our community is facing.

Cumulative Impacts
Coal mining: Why "responsible underground mining" is not responsible to our health and safety
"Clean" Coal Isn't Clean: How IGCC technology threatens our community
The Big Dirties: Four polluting old pulverized coal plants, and one more proposed
Environmental justice for Appalachia
Climate change

To learn how Meigs Citizens Action Now! is responding, and our vision for a better future, see our Campaigns page.

Cumulative Impacts

Existing Industry	And More Proposed
Residents of Meigs are surrounded by polluting industries on both sides of the Ohio River: Four pulverized coal power plants An experimental carbon sequestration test site Century Aluminum Factory Fellman’s Manganese Factory-- one of two in the entire United States Downstream from DuPont's C8 (Teflon) waste dump in the Ohio River An old superfund site in Ravenswood, WVA	The entire industrial life cycle of coal is among the glut of new industries proposed within an aproximate ten-mile radius: Coal mining by Gatling Ohio, LLC (construction—destruction?—already begun!), including: Toxic coal preparation plant Possible sludge impoundments or sludge injection Another pulverized coal power plant from American Municipal Power Several IGCC coal power plants from American Electric Power A factory to turn coal waste into agricultural fertilizer A Coal- to-Liquids facility

Existing Industry

And More Proposed

Residents of Meigs are surrounded by polluting industries on both sides of the Ohio River:

Four pulverized coal power plants
An experimental carbon sequestration test site
Century Aluminum Factory
Fellman’s Manganese Factory-- one of two in the entire United States
Downstream from DuPont's C8 (Teflon) waste dump in the Ohio River
An old superfund site in Ravenswood, WVA

The entire industrial life cycle of coal is among the glut of new industries proposed within an aproximate ten-mile radius:

Coal mining by Gatling Ohio, LLC (construction—destruction?—already begun!), including:
- Toxic coal preparation plant
- Possible sludge impoundments or sludge injection
Another pulverized coal power plant from American Municipal Power
Several IGCC coal power plants from American Electric Power
A factory to turn coal waste into agricultural fertilizer
A Coal- to-Liquids facility

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