A coal burning power plant

The East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) is proposing to build a new coal-burning power plant near the Kentucky River in Clark County called the Smith plant. KFTC members are concerned that the Smith plant would have many negative health and environmental impacts.

To build the plant, EKPC must apply for and receive an air quality permit from the Kentucky Division for Air Quality. The public has 30 days to comment on the proposed air permit. KFTC members and our allied groups across the state are using this opportunity to speak out against the proposed plant and to call for a better, cleaner way forward.

Please help lend your voice to clean air and public health by attending a public hearing on the permit or submitting written comments. We are trying to demonstrate widespread opposition to the plant by generating hundreds of comments from people all across the state.

Feel free to contact KFTC organizer Sara Pennington at sara@kftc.org or 606-276-9933 for more information about the public comment process or the public hearing.

Action #1

Click the button below to submit a written comment about the proposed permit.  We have a sample letter drafted that you can use, or you can write your own.  For more talking points about this issue, please visit this page.

Please submit your comment by February 3rd.

Action #2

Join us for the public hearing for the proposed Air Quality Permit. We are hoping to bring out as many people as possible to this hearing to show that there is widespread opposition to building another dirty, coal-burning power plant. 

The public hearing will be held Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in Winchester, KY, at the Clark County Cooperative Extension Office, 1400 Fortune Drive.

Thanks for taking action!

Recent news about the proposed Smith plant's draft air pollution permit:

• "Permit for electric plant under fire" - Lexington Herald-Leader
• "Controversy over proposed Clark County plant heating up" - Richmond Register