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| − | '''Wansley Plant''' is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by [[Southern Company]] near Franklin, Georgia.
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| − | ==Plant Data==
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| − | *'''Owner''': [[Georgia Power]] Company
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| − | *'''Parent Company''': [[Southern Company]]
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| − | *'''Plant Nameplate Capacity''': 1,904 MW
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| − | *'''Units and In-Service Dates''': 952 MW (1976), 952 MW (1978)
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| − | *'''Location''': 3461 Hollingsworth Ferry Rd., Franklin, GA 30217
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| − | *'''GPS Coordinates''': 33.410694, -85.03661
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| − | *'''Coal Consumption''':
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| − | *'''Coal Source''':
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| − | *'''Number of Employees''':
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| − | ==Emissions Data==
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| − | *'''2006 CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions''': 13,612,838 tons
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| − | *'''2006 SO<sub>2</sub> Emissions''': 96,200 tons
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| − | *'''2006 SO<sub>2</sub> Emissions per MWh''':
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| − | *'''2006 NO<sub>x</sub> Emissions''': 13,814 tons
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| − | *'''2005 Mercury Emissions''': 452 lb.
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| − | ==Coal Waste Site==
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| − | *[[Wansley Plant Ash Pond]]
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| − | ==Wansley ranked 9th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste==
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| − | In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of [[Coal waste|coal combustion waste]] (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the [[TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill]].<ref name="iss">Sue Sturgis, [http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/01/coals-ticking-timebomb-could-disaster-strike-a-coal-ash-dump-near-you.html "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?,"] Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.</ref> The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.<ref>[http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer/ TRI Explorer,] EPA, accessed January 2009.</ref>
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| − | Wansley Plant ranked number 9 on the list, with 2,673,672 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.<ref name="iss"/>
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| − | ==Articles and Resources==
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| − | ===Sources===
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| − | <references/>
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| − | *[http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat2p2.html Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005], Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
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| − | *Environmental Integrity Project, [http://www.dirtykilowatts.org/Dirty_Kilowatts2007.pdf "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants"], July 2007.
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| − | *[http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/fii_query_java.html Facility Registry System], U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
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| − | ===Related SourceWatch Articles===
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| − | *[[Existing U.S. Coal Plants]]
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| − | *[[Georgia and coal]]
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| − | *[[Southern Company]]
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| − | *[[United States and coal]]
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| − | *[[Global warming]]
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| − | [[Category:Climate change]]
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