Send a personalized letter to Alabama Power stating how you feel about coal ash pollution being capped in place at Barry Steam Plant.

Possible points about the Plant Barry site in your own words:
• Are recreation activities on unpolluted water important to you?
• Potential for hurricanes and tropical storms providing irreparable danger to Mobile and
Bay area from the rupture of the pond’s dike.
• General concerns about the long-term effects of coal ash pollution.
• Health impacts – clean and safe drinking water; pollution of the Bay, etc.
• Environment – damage to local ecosystem, wildlife, seafood habitats, etc.
• Flora and fauna are affected in “America’s Amazon”.
• Other information that means something to you if a disaster larger than the BP oil spill
happened again.
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“Solve the problem by spending the necessary money to be proac6ve rather than risk the
tremendous cleanup cost and the catastrophic impact on our own health and our valuable
resources. We have a ticking time bomb! Al Power and our ADEM hope it won’t explode!”
Alabama Power customers already pay $4.49 per month toward coal ash mitigation. If VA can do it –
so can Alabama! Consider the cost of the Kingston, TN coal ash cleanup in 2008! What would
that cost be today? (20 6mes worse than the BP oil spill!)
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“My wife and I are residents of Baldwin County Alabama. We kayak swim and fish in the Mobile
Bay. We are good stewards of our environment and expect the same from corpora6ons that are
doing business in our community. We are present here today to ask Alabama Power to remove
the coal ash as other states have done, and not cap it in place as customers of Alabama Power
we are currently charged a monthly fee for the clean-up process. My wife and I are stockholders
in the Southern Company, the parent company of Alabama Power. As such, we are asking that
this issue be resolved by removing the coal ash to prevent future damage to the environment
and to prevent future lawsuits. Both of which could negatively affect profits for the company
and stockholders…”
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“I'm an outdoor person who loves doing many outdoor activities I can discuss how Alabama and
the other states have a long history of overburdening our communities with dangerous
industrial practices that ruin our environment and the health of so many people, but I won't as
you already probably know more than I do. As a lawyer, I have worked in enough companies
where there have been an OSHA violation or other environmental issues where a common
comment of the people in control is “Let's just pay the penalty, it's a lot cheaper than fixing the
problem”. Please think about our beautiful state and let's fix the real problem now! Thank you”