Power plant unnecessary

Consolidated Energy's attempt to build a petroleum coal-fired power plant is absurd. The plant will further foul our air and endanger the health of all residents in Salt Lake and Davis counties. However, it is an especially poor idea because it is unnecessary. Our future electricity needs can be met by a less sexy alternative known as energy efficiency. Power plants in the United States currently waste enough energy to electrify all of Japan. Before we decide to build new plants, utilities should be upgrading existing facilities with improved control technologies and government should help citizens install more efficient appliances in their homes.

The enormous health and environmental consequences that the proposed plant would cause is not justified by unnecessary electricity generation.

Andryah Peraza

Midvale