Rally Poster (Credit: Charleston Climate Coalition)
The Charleston Climate Coalition will hold a press conference and rally Jan. 13 to oppose Dominion Energy’s plans to build a large natural gas plant on the Edisto River and a new pipeline through the ACE Basin to supply it.
The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. in front of Dominion Energy’s Charleston headquarters at 2390 Aviation Ave. in North Charleston.
Speakers from the Charleston Climate Coalition and partner organizations — including Edisto Riverkeeper, New Disabled South, United Workers Association and the South Carolina Tenant Union — are expected to outline concerns over what they describe as Dominion’s anti-consumer and anti-environmental practices. Organizers say the rally will also mark the launch of this year’s campaign opposing approval of the proposed Canadys Gas Plant by the South Carolina Public Service Commission.
“Dominion Energy makes a lot of decisions that hurt us and our natural landscape in the name of profit,” said Belvin Olasov, director of the Charleston Climate Coalition. “We’re tired of industrial exploitation of the ACE Basin in the name of profit and data centers.”
The rally is the latest action by the coalition to challenge Dominion’s proposed Edisto River gas plant and pipeline project. Opponents argue the project would increase air pollution affecting millions of people, undermine local climate goals and threaten the sensitive watershed of the ACE Basin, one of the largest undeveloped wetland ecosystems on the East Coast.
You can register for the rally here.