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Dear 'Links,
You must have heard the news by now. It's all over town. Yesterday, it was revealed that Dominion Energy has announced its plans to close down the Salem Harbor Station. This news follows Dominion's October announcement to permanently delist the Salem Harbor Station, taking measures to remove the plant from the future capacity market.
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Dominion CFO Mark McGettrick stated to the shareholders, "In the near future, certainly in this five-year horizon, we would expect Salem Harbor plant to shut down. We will not invest any capital for environmental improvements at Salem Harbor."
Following are links to the news stories as they broke today. We, along with our allies in CLF, SAFE, Clean Water Action, Greenpeace and the Sierra Club will be holding a press conference and hope to meet with the Governor next week to urge him to communicate with ISO-New England, the region's electric grid operator to let Salem shut down and save ratepayers from paying the above market rate of over $30 million to subsidize the plant owner.
Without our work to pass stiff emissions requirements, this plant would have continued profitably chugging out dirty, sooty toxic emissions. We feel exhilerated today that citizen action CAN and DID make a difference!
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