In S. Carolina, John
Edwards Reiterates Call for Ban on Coal-Fired
Power. By Page Ivey, AP, January 15,
2008. "Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards
on Monday said a proposed coal-fired power plant shouldn't be built in
northeastern South Carolina, continuing his call for a ban on those facilities.
'My view is that needs to stop,' Edwards said of the $1 billion, 600-megawatt
plant set to be built along the Pee Dee River in this early-voting state. Santee
Cooper officials are awaiting a final permit from state environmental
regulators... [and] hope to have [the plant] running [by] 2012. Edwards, a
former North Carolina senator, told about 150 people at a campus of Coastal
Carolina University that coal-fired plants are 'taking a bad situation and
making it worse.' He also said [again that] he was opposed to new nuclear power
plants."