Stop the Brockton Power Plant

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FACTS:

-Brockton’s power plant will not lower our taxes or our electric bills.

-Brockton is already ranked ninth (9th) on the list of environmentally overburdened New England communities.

-Brockton is already one of the ten towns with the highest asthma hospitalization rates in Massachusetts.

-The 250 foot smokestack will release toxic pollutants for miles and change Brockton’s landscape.

-The plant emits nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, airborne particulates and carbon dioxide, a major pollutant and cause of global warming.

-Brockton Power will store 25,000 gallons of aqueous ammonia on the 13 acre site threatening West Bridgewater's drinking water.

-There will only be 20 long term jobs created by this plant, and there is no guarantee that those jobs will go to Brockton residents.

-The power plant will be built, owned and operated by a foreign based company that will sell the electricity to the National Grid.

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