White Stallion Coal Plant will harm the Public Health, the local Environment, Tourism, and lessen the Quality of Life of all Matagorda County residents
History
In March ’09 Matagorda County residents with the assistance of Texas Public Citizen and the Sierra Club, came together to form an Organization to oppose the proposed White Stallion Coal Plant which was being fast-tracked by TCEQ for a publicly announced "groundbreaking" In August ’09 the name and officers were chosen; the non-profit status 501 (c) (3) was applied for and obtained.
- White Stallion Coal Plant wants to remove 35,706 acre-feet of water from the Colorado River each year. 35,706 acre-feet is 56 square miles of water 1 foot high — East Matagorda Bay is 59 square miles.
- The 56 square miles of Colorado River water blown out their 60-STORY smokestacks each year — Water equal to 1/4 the entire City of Austin.
"We need to reduce our atmospheric greenhouse gas levels to below 350 parts per million in order to avoid climate catastrophe, the U.S. and the world must begin phasing out coal immediately in order to reach that target."
— Leading climate scientist Dr. James Hansen (Director NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
Welcome
June 8, 2010
Welcome to the new re-design of our No Coal Coalition website. Please be patient while we reorganize our web site material. We’ve still got a lot of material to add back to our site. For those members who were used to the original website and want to locate any of those materials quickly; all of that information is available from our archive. Here’s the link to that site www.nocoalcoalition.org/archive/. All of that material will be added into our new site as quickly as possible.
We thank you for your patience.
