Community Meeting to Stop SEPTA’s Natural Gas Power Plant

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Please join us at a community meeting to discuss how we can work together to stop SEPTA from building a natural gas power plant in Nicetown and to push for the agency to plan a transition to clean renewable energy instead. The meeting is sponsored by the Community Advocate and 350 Philadelphia. Everyone is welcome! Whether you are already involved in the campaign or you’re just hearing about this issue for the first time, we hope you will join us.

During the meeting, we will:

• talk about SEPTA’s plan for a power plant in Nicetown

• discuss the harm that pollution from the plant could cause to people in Tioga, Nicetown, Germantown, and nearby neighborhoods, and to our global climate

• share updates about the ongoing campaign to stop the plant, and develop new plans to urge elected officials to deny permits for the plant

• take immediate action -- by signing postcards and making calls to elected officials

We will also discuss other environmental health issues facing the Nicetown-Tioga community, including the new crematorium on Hunting Park Avenue.  

To learn more about the Fossil Free SEPTA campaign, visit www.350philadelphia.org/septa. Pizza and other refreshments will be served.

Background:

SEPTA is planning to build a new power plant next to the Midvale bus depot, near Wissahickon and Hunting Park Ave. The plant would burn natural gas in order to generate electricity for the Regional Rail system. More than 50 organizations across the Philadelphia area have called on SEPTA to cancel this project and to make a plan to use clean renewable energy to power our transit system instead.

• Release toxic air pollution into an already burdened neighborhood

• Accelerate global warming

• Likely waste tax-payer & fare-payer money
  
  

Many transit agencies across the world are beginning to use electricity generated by solar panels and wind turbines to power their trains, subways, trolleys, and buses. We are urging SEPTA to do the same.