The proposed Broadwing Energy Center is a gas-fired (fossil-fuel) plant that will supply electricity primarily to Google data centers. Broadwing proposes using ADM's expanded carbon capture and sequestration process, which has already been shown to fail (leak) during pilot testing and was covered up for over two years.
We refuse to shoulder the air pollution, risks to our water supply, and risk of more CCS well leaks for more corporate profits for Google, ADM, and private equity owned Broadwing Energy.
Take these actions to make your voice heard and remind our elected leaders that they work for us, not corporate interests.
Submit comments with regard to the air pollution permit allowing Broadwing to exceed IL EPA safe air pollution levels by emailing EPA.PublicHearingCom@Illinois.gov.
Check here for more information about the permit and other ways to submit written comments.
REMINDERS: All comments should only pertain to the air pollution issue. Also, we have been told that the email address is case sensitive, so double-check it before you send.
Sign the change.org petition urging the Decatur City Council to nullify the 99-year lease they granted ADM for 224 acres to bury CO2 under our lake, homes, schools, and workplaces.
Want to go the extra mile? Leave a comment on the petition!
Email every member of the City Council to let them know that you oppose this project.
The 99-year lease deal was signed the day before Governor Pritzker was in Decatur to sign the SAFE CCS Act, which would have prohibited the sequestration of CO2 under Lake Decatur.
Contact the Governor's Office to let them know that we need his help in stopping this project. The IL EPA designated Decatur an Environmental Justice Community, already ranking among the worse in the nation for air quality.
We cannot handle more air pollution.
Our Illinois Senators and Representatives can influence the IL EPA to hear citizens' concerns and not just corporations' greenwashing proposals.
Find your State Senator and Representative:
The effects of this project do not stop at Decatur city borders, nor should the political process. Contact your county board member (or all of them) and tell them to get involved in stopping this project.
Your district should be listed on your Voter Registration card, or you can look it up here.
We have formed a team dedicated to this and Hyperscale (AI) Data Center regulations in our city and county, and we could use YOU!
If you are interested in joining, email jointhemovement@soycityindivisible.org.
We are a grassroots organization and rely on individual contributions. The more we raise, the more we can do on this issue. If you are able to contribute, we will definitely put the funds to good use!
Local issues have the most impact on our day to day lives, so it matters who we put in local elected offices. This project would have never made it this far under leadership that is working for the interest of the community, rather than for large corporations. Know your options and VOTE like our city and county depend on it, because it does!