stefan
05-04-2007, 12:06 AM
Killer Coal
A proposed power plant in Sevier County threatens a local lifestyle and the air all of us breathe.
by Jonah Owen Lamb
A shiny black Ford pickup tumbled down a dirt road, past piles of abandoned cars and junk. Jim Canon sat behind the wheel on a clear day in March, as his truck trailed dust on this Sevier County road. Still moving, Canon peered past a barbed-wire fence to an empty parcel of farmland. Furrows ran the length of the tree-lined acreage as if its soil hadn
A proposed power plant in Sevier County threatens a local lifestyle and the air all of us breathe.
by Jonah Owen Lamb
A shiny black Ford pickup tumbled down a dirt road, past piles of abandoned cars and junk. Jim Canon sat behind the wheel on a clear day in March, as his truck trailed dust on this Sevier County road. Still moving, Canon peered past a barbed-wire fence to an empty parcel of farmland. Furrows ran the length of the tree-lined acreage as if its soil hadn