Tag Archives: Celie Dailey

My Children Don’t Want a Coal Plant on the Great Pee Dee River

By Mary Edna | Published: July 30, 2009
Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state owned utility is planning to build a 1320 MW coal fired power plant on the banks of the Great Pee Dee River in southern Florence County. This will be the state’s 13th coal plant and it will emit every year over 10 million tons of CO2, the primary greenhouse gas, […]
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50 Houses on Kiawah Sand

By Mary Edna | Published: February 14, 2009
The eleven-minute documentary features interviews with Dr. Orrin Pilkey, Professor of Earth Sciences at Duke University, and Nancy Vinson, CCL’s Program Director for Air and Water Quality.  Diagrams and maps are provided by geologist Miles O. Hayes, quoted in a recent Post & Courier article as saying, “I’m appalled that they want to develop that […]
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Delete Apathy, Promoting Environmental Action

By Mary Edna | Published: February 14, 2009
Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers, donors, and folks who attended this successful event. We had over 200 come out to support the Coastal Conservation League. Dana Downs, songwriter from Athens, and Mary Edna sung a protest to stop the coal plant on the Great Pee Dee River and performed Dana’s Delete Apathy song. Folks […]
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