Cheatham County Generation Site EIS Scoping Report
Appendix C Summary of Scoping Comments
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dear J. Taylor Johnson,
Please see the following public comment regarding TVA’s Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Cheatham County Generation Site. The comment was signed by 3,672 people with 368 unique/individual comments, including many unique comments from people living near the affected site in Cheatham County.
These comments and signatures are in the attached spreadsheet. Please contact me with any questions.
Thank you,
Angie Mummaw Middle Tennessee Organizer, Appalachian Voices
Dear TVA Board and Staff,
Public Scoping Comment Letter on behalf of Appalachian Voices (3,672 people)
After decades of operation, the Cumberland Fossil Plant is no longer cost effective or reliable, and it is one of the most polluting coal plants in the country. This is why I support TVA’s decision to close the Cumberland Plant. I strongly encourage TVA to replace the plant’s capacity with a renewable electricity alternative that is cost effective, safe and reliable while bringing jobs and economic development to the region. I firmly believe that TVA should not invest in more fossil fuel by constructing a methane gas plant and 12-mile gas pipeline in Cheatham County to partially replace the capacity of one of the coal-fired units at Cumberland City. Building a gas plant is expensive and gas prices are volatile. TVA would likely have to retire the gas plant before the end of its useful life because renewable energy options are cheaper, and those prices continue to fall. TVA customers should not be forced to pay for a project that TVA CEO Jeff Lyash has called a “not-forever” solution. Furthermore, the public health impacts and environmental risks of building a gas plant are too big to ignore. Methane gas plants, compressor stations and pipelines release pollutants like nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxides, carbon monoxide and particulate matter into the air. They are also at risk of dangerous explosions like the one that happened in Dickson County in 1992. In addition, the combined 44 miles of pipeline that TVA would need to replace the two coal-fired units at Cumberland City would force landowners to sell easements on their property to the pipeline company, Kinder Morgan, while crossing more than 130 wetlands and streams, threatening our air and water quality. If the pipelines contaminate groundwater or surface water during construction, rural communities could lose access to clean water for drinking and farming.
7/7/2023
negative
Angie
Mummaw
TVA should invest in renewable energy sources like wind, energy efficiency, solar and storage to replace the capacity of both coal-fired units at the Cumberland City fossil plant.
Thank you for considering my comment. (See signatures at the end of summary table)
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Stop perpetuating dangerous forms of "energy".
7/7/2023
negative
Trina
Semorile
10036
Move to clean energy.
7/7/2023
The time for transitioning to clean, renewable energy is NOW.
negative
John
Seakwood
12125
7/7/2023
PUT THIS THING OUTSIDE THE GOVERNORS MANSION...OR NEXT DOOR TO THE BOARD MEMBERS OF THE TVA.......NO? THEN NOWHERE.... THAT'S HOW THIS WORKS..
negative
Richard
Schoemer
53523
I trust that the TVA will soon recognize the downsides of relying on methane and fracked methane pollutants whose emissions will be harmful to regions air, water, tourism and the health of its residents. Renewable energy and sustainable jobs through investment in alternatives is a safer, cleaner, cheaper means to assuring the region's energy future.
7/7/2023
negative David and Marge Schneider
6405
Fossil-Fuel Consumption is A Direct Threat To All Living Organisms on this Planet. Any where and Everywhere, We Must Fight To Reduce and Eliminate The Use of Fossil-Fuel. No Expansion, Reduce Them or Eliminate Them Now, before We As a human species are eliminated.
7/7/2023
negative
Shawn
Sargent
2673
Please choose renewable energy, long-term jobs and economic development for Cheatham County! Our country doesn't need any more fossil fuel infrastructure. It makes more economic sense to invest in the clean energy of the future.
7/7/2023
negative
Nadine
Sapirman
8844
7/7/2023
This is a horrible idea.
negative
Patsy
Roquebrune
37015
7/7/2023
what you do effects everyone.................
negative
Janet
Romoff
33068-5107
7/7/2023
FOSSIL FUELS ENDANGER LIFE, AIR, LAND, AND ALL WATER SOURCES, DUMB*SSES with "ACTIVE BRAIN CELLS" which has been replaced with DIRTY TOILET WATER!!!!!
negative
Earl
Roberts
78218
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