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Stop the Power Plant Attack on Tracy, California! March 2002
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Press Coverage
James Miner of Tracy Residents for a Healthy Community mans the bullhorn as the group protests the proposed peaker power plant outside the GWF Biomass Plant. TRHC is a fairly new organization comprised of Tracy residents who are concerned with power plants, plutonium shipments along Interstate 205, the Royster tire fire site and cleaning up the Defense Depot SuperFund site, according to the group's Web site, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trhc. For more information, contact:
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Residents Demonstrate! On March 2nd, sixty Tracy residents and supporters from Greenaction protested plans by GWF to build a polluting 169 Megawatt power plant near homes in Tracy. This is one of six fossil fuel plants proposed in the area. Residents and Greenaction want clean renewable energy such as solar and wind, not polluting plants that can cause asthma and other health problems. Residents are also concerned about many other giant power plants also proposed for the area. Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice joined the fight at the request of local residents, and was present Saturday's protest. Last year Greenaction helped Valley residents stop plans to burn medical waste at an incinerator near Crow's Landing, and has been actively promoting clean renewable energy instead of polluting power plants. Residents and Greenaction also mobilized to attend the California Energy Commission hearing on the peaker power plant proposal held Wednesday, March 6th at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel in Tracy.
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