A seventh proposed gas-fired power plant for the New Albany International Business park in western Licking County has Dr. Don DeShetler concerned for the health of his neighbors and the 8,000 patients of the family practice he and a group of doctors staff in Granville.
So the New Albany resident drove to Columbus on Wednesday morning to spend a few minutes telling an administrative law judge for the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) why the board should reject the application for the 450-megawatt, gas-fired PowerConneX New Albany 3 Energy Center.
He said PowerConneX proposes using “gas power plants that are highly inefficient and extremely polluting,” and that among his many concerns are the health effects of the 178.1 tons of fine particulate matter that would be pumped into the air each year by that one powerplant…