Burning Coal to Make Electricity
Most people don't know how the electricity they use is produced.
In Wisconsin, more than 70% of the electricity is produced by burning coal.
Coal is abundant, and coal is cheap.
But it is cheap only if the environmental and societal impacts are disregarded.
'Keeping the Lights On' begins its look at the impacts of coal burning on the day that representatives from Dairyland Power Cooperative in Genoa, Wisconsin knocked on farmers' doors and told them, "Your farm has been chosen as a landfill site."
Within the story of the community’s resistance to the landfill project, the film explores the reasons this electric utility seeks a waste dump, and it might make you question why we are still burning coal in the 21st century.
Dairyland Power Cooperative needs to hear from concerned citizens that their multi-million dollar plan to continue burning coal for another 30 years is not a reasonable option.
(Harmony Township Opposing Pollution of the Environment)
need your voice and your help in their struggle to protect their farms, their community, and their heritage.
Please go to DontDumpOnUs.org to offer your support.
35 min.
Excerpts from ‘Keeping The Lights On’
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The “bowl on top of a ridge” that Dairyland’s consultants determined was the ideal site for their toxic waste dump.
For information about other coal plant initiatives in Wisconsin, visit cleanwisconsin.org
