Coal to Clean Energy Tour Next Weekend!

See firsthand how Illinoisans (and Missourians) are having their air and water polluted by coal, and what you can do to help stop it! And see how renewable alternatives to coal are taking shape. Join us in visiting power plants, mines, coal ash dumps, and a wind turbine, and biofuel farm!
 
Saturday, Oct 1st: 9AM-9PM. Estimated cost: $15. We would leave Friday!

1st stop: Agricultural Watershed Institute, Decatur, IL: AWI is in the first season of a pilot project to produce biofuels from native prairie plants. 

2nd stop: City Water Light and Power Plant, Springfield, IL: Students will see an expansion to the plant, and learn about the plant’s water usage, and groundwater impacts from coal ash.

3rd stop: Crown I Mine, Famersville, IL: A shuttered underground mine with visibly leaking coal refuse and no pollution controls to prevent groundwater contamination. 

4th stop: Crown III Mine: Farmersville, IL: Underground, room and pillar, with coal slurry and ash disposal. Residents complain of dust problems, no pollution controls to prevent groundwater contamination.

5th stop: Shay 1 Mine, Carlinville, IL: Existing underground mine with longwall and room and pillar. Can see subsided ground, along with massive refuse disposal areas leaking into stream & groundwater
 

6th stop: Deer Run Mine, Hillsboro, IL: New longwall mine --longwall mining is a particularly invasive mining technique that is becoming more common in the midwest.