What's My Connection to Mountaintop Removal?
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Will County
OPERATOR: Edison Mission Energy
LOCATION: Will County, IL
CONNECTION SUMMARY: This power plant purchases coal from companies engaged in mountaintop removal mining. Of the Appalachian communities featured on this site, the one most closely connected to this power plant is Black Mountain, Virginia.
INTERACTIVE MAP: Click any of the mine icons in the map below to get a close-up view of where your power comes from - each mine symbol represents a connection to mountaintop removal for Will County and for electricity consumers connected to Edison Mission Energy. Direct suppliers of strip mined coal from Central Appalachia are shown in red. See below for the legend and navigation hints.
View this plant's connection in Google Earth |
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The controls on the top left of the map allow you to zoom in closer to the ground or back out to get a broader perspective. Even easier, though, is to navigate with the "hand" tool. Clicking and dragging on the map will move the map in the same direction, double-clicking on a point will center the map on that point and zoom you in a little closer, and double clicking with the right mouse button (ctrl-click for macintosh users) to center on a point and zoom out. |
Coal suppliers to Will County that are not mountaintop removal mines, but which are owned by companies that operate mountaintop removal mines in Appalachia
Mountaintop removal mines that are connected to your power grid
Appalachian Citizens Law Center • Appalachian Voices • Appalshop • Coal River Mountain Watch • Heartwood • Keeper of the Mountains
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth • MACED • Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition • Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment
Sierra Club Environmental Justice • Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards • SouthWings • West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
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