Saturday, September 21 at 4:30pm
429 South College Avenue, Newark DE 19711
In conjunction with Draw the Line Day of action and Delaware Sea Level Rise Awareness Week we'll be bringing attention to and drawing the line at a crime against the climate right here in our community --the import and storage of the toxic tar sands from Canada and Bakken Shale oil from North Dakota (the same stuff that decimated the small town of Lac Megantic, Canada when a train derailed and several cars ignited and exploded, killing 47) right in Newark next to several residential neighborhoods, a kids park and UD campus.
As if the tar sands practically in people's backyard isn't enough, UD (who purchased the former Chrysler site right next to the rail yard) has now granted a 75 year lease to The Data Centers LLC, who want to build a massive 248MW Natural Gas Power Plant ON the UD "Star Campus"!
Meet at the front of the Newark Amtrak parking lot (near the end of the bridge on rt 868/South College, across from the Girl Scouts building) at 4:20pm and we'll walk down a block or two and stand near the UD Star Campus Sign/ Across from the Bob and the UD Football stadium to display our signs and banners to all of the passing car & foot traffic on their way to the 6pm game.
Tar Sands banners, blank poster board and markers will be provided by the Delaware Sierra Club. We'll also have flyers on the tar sands trains in Newark and the Power Plant to distribute to people who want more info. Bring your own signs if you want about drawing the line at power plants on campus or how [despite the claims of The Data Centers LLC] fracked gas is not "green" or "renewable" but a dangerous fossil fuel!
Map at: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=newark+amtrak+statio n&ie=UTF-8&ei=DeoxUt25FJTJ 4AO1l4HoDQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg
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| "Had no idea a huge gas power plant was in the works in Newark, one of Delaware’s most densely populated cities? You’re not the only one! The news has been kept very tightly under wraps by the City of Newark, the company proposing the power plant and the University of Delaware. The City of Newark Council voted to keep details of this proposed project private and have been in secret communications with Data Centers LLC, the West Chester, PA company behind the project, for over a year. In fact, the only reason we even know about this project now is that several private citizens became aware of the project and shared this info with the larger community! Because of this secrecy, there’s plenty of details we don’t know about this project. What we do know is that Data Centers, LLC is proposing to build a 900,000-square-foot structure for housing computer servers, which would be run by energy created onsite via a natural gas fueled turbine system. The facility will create way more more energy than it needs with plans to sell this excess energy to the Delaware Municipal Electric Corp (DMEC, the supplier of power to Newark’s city-owned utility). DEMC and Data Centers, LLC already have an agreement in place! To offer some perspective, it’s important to note that the Hope Creek Thermal Nuclear Power Plant generates a little over 1000 megawatts–while this proposed plant will produce as much as one quarter that amount (248 megawatts)–and the proposed location is right in the middle of a residential town with a population of 30,000. It’s also important to note that the current city of Newark electric load is only 92 megawatts. So far, this has all been discussed among the City Council, DMEC, Delaware’s Economic Development Office and the University of Delaware with no oversight, citizen involvement or awareness!" The City of Newark claims that the closest home to the plant is at least half a mile away. In reality, there is a children's park less than 250 feet away from the proposed plant site, and dozens of homes within the 1/2 mile radius. The City of Newark has kept this under wraps for so long for a reason, and it's time to bring this to light and stop it before it's too late! Source: |
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