Cheatham County Generation Site EIS Scoping Report
Appendix C Summary of Scoping Comments
Tennessee Valley Authority
Please don't put this methane plant and pipeline in our beautiful county. I was under the impression that the latest federal legislation mandated a move away from fossil fuels and greenhouse gases toward a more climate change recognition/ green approach. Cheatham County is the last county next to Davidson which has avoided these harmful expansions, preserving its natural beauty and habitat for an entire region. I suggest that you utilize all of the commercial, industrial, and educational parking lots in partnership with the owners to put up covered parking with solar panels on top. The customers, employees, and teachers and students would be grateful for shelter from the heat and weather. (You have already partnered with a high school in our county to do this very thing.) The pavement in these parking lots generates unbearable heat adding to the warming of our planet. This plan (solar panels covering parking lots) will require no more destruction of the very plants/ trees which reduce carbon in the air. The public is watching what you do. Will you live up to your promise or contribute to the problem of global warming? negative Jane Crisp
Cheatham County Generation Site_#193 Cheatham County Generation Site #192
7/7/2023
7/7/2023
I am 100 percent in opposition of this pipeline and factory. Please do not poison the community with this building.
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Courtney
Goolsby
I reside in Ashland City, Tennessee and I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed construction and operation of a simple cycle Combustion Turbine (CT) plant and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on a 286-acre parcel of TVA-owned land in Cheatham County.
First, the TVA’s announcement of the project suggests it is operating in bad faith. TVA gave very short notice of the project prior to its informational meeting, which was scheduled close to the 4th of July holiday when it was reasonable to assume many residents would be occupied or away spending time with family. Further, the format seemed to be designed to discourage direct and open questions and diffuse accountability. The proposed environmental risk studies are not, nor can they ever be, adequate to capture the true costs of the project. ‘Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’; this informational asymmetry is inherent in any attempt to predict present, much less future, harm that could result from the plant and pipeline. Witness the environmental and health damage unleashed by the spill of radioactive coal ash in Kingston Springs, also in Cheatham County. Did the initial so-called ‘studies’ predict or account for the water and soil contamination, and for the devastating illness and loss of life for those charged with cleaning up the spill? I have training in conducting impact evaluations and cost-benefit analyses. I’m well aware just how easily data can be cherry-picked, projected benefits bloated and statistical analyses twisted to justify practically any decision. In my experience, government agencies and corporate entities typically decide whether to proceed first, based purely on financial self-interest, and then manufacture the data and spin the narratives necessary to justify their decision after the fact. While the benefits for the project, in the form of some vague potential future ‘grid stability’ are distributed and accrue to residents far away from Ashland City, the actual, real-life risks to soil, water, wildlife, livestock and humans - which are seldom be captured in any study - fall squarely on the shoulders of Cheatham County residents. And even these purported benefits seem to be minimal. The project is being put forth as a temporary ‘bridge’ to better grid solutions, and is only projected to produce its relative benefits for a mere 30 years - or less. And these benefits could easily be erased by, for example, higher gas price volatility, or the emergence of better alternatives. Many experts have already pointed to a number of existing solutions that would be cheaper, cleaner and generate far greater local economic benefits. Then there’s the matter of the proposed pipeline. How many Cheatham County resident landowners will have their Constitutionally protected property seized by the TVA via forced sale of easements, all for a project from which they directly receive little measurable benefit?
Cheatham County Generation Site_#191
7/7/2023
negative
Brett
Kuhnert
With the recent Louisiana Federal District Court ordering the US Federal Government to stop collaborating with social media companies to violate the First Amendment by spying on and censoring Americans’ free speech, trust in Federal government institutions among the American people has never been lower. We have seen time and time again that government entities and their corporate partners green-light projects that accrue to their benefit and to the benefit of their backers, while local American residents get stuck bearing almost all of the costs. This needs to stop - now. This project should be halted and the land returned to the citizens of Cheatham County, who are best positioned, and much better incentivized, to serve as its stewards.
Cheatham County Generation Site_#190 Cheatham County Generation Site_#189 Cheatham County Generation Site_#188
7/7/2023
Please do not put this in our back yard
negative
Rob
Snyder
I do not want this natural gas power plant and battery station at the end of my road. I am an organic gardener and shutter to think what this will do. I am confident there is a much better solution and location than in the heart of our beloved country property. We don’t need this and don’t want it. I do not want the additional traffic, polutants and safety concerns right down the road . We worked hard for our American dream of living in the country surrounded by nature and growing our own food. I say NO! negative Tricia White
7/7/2023
7/7/2023
I do not support the building of the methane plant
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Amanda
Bell
I am against building any new power generation plant which is dependent on fossil fuels. I am against building an adjacent natural gas pipeline to fuel the proposed Generation site in Cheatham
County. Americans must take seriously the dire threat to our planet, and heed the negative impacts we are already experiencing from global warming. We must stop and mitigate the damage that science has proven man has caused and set into motion for the future. I am for an action alternative which would find, evaluate, and develop a suitable site for a large solar power farm, whether it is on TVA property in Cheatham County or not. I also want TVA to investigate the feasibility of reusing TVA sites that are being phased out or are set for closing, or are already closed, and repurpose them for use with sustainable energy products, for energy production and storage.
Cheatham County Generation Site_#187
7/7/2023
negative
Karen
Mevis
TVA needs to stand up and heed the science and start leading with intelligence and understanding. Please TVA become part of the solution, don't keep doing the same things that have gotten us to this critical state. Planting trees and pollinator gardens are great things to do, but we need much more. We need to stop burning fossil fuels.
Cheatham County Generation Site_#186 Cheatham County Generation Site_#185
7/7/2023
As a nurse, I feel that this poses a health risk to the people who live in this community. No one will listen to them if they start having exposure symptoms and it could be avoided by finding a less populated area negative Torrie King
7/7/2023
We stand by our friends and neighbors opposing the TVAexpansion in Cheatham county
negative
Kenton
Bryant
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