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[email protected] WVU’s Independent Student Newspaper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020 www.thedaonline.com University student organizations to rally against Longview Power Plant could have irreversible environmen- renewable energy can bee competitive BY GABRIELLA BROWN tal implications, including water con- in West Virginia. We havee a ton of unun-- NEWS EDITOR tamination and the release of four tapped potential.” million tons of CO2 into the atmo- Kone said with this projecprojectt Student organizations will rally to- sphere. She said the construction of in particular, one of thee biggestbiggest gether at Woodburn Circle on Sat- the plant poses its own set of prob- problems is related to thee payment in urday at noon to protest against the lems, such as pipeline installation lieu of taxes (PILOT) program,gram, meanmean-- construction of a natural gas and so- and deforestation. ing the company agreess to pay a set LOT papaymentsyments and taxes in Monon- proposed gas facility, lar power plant. She said few people within the stipend of fees to the countyunty governgovern-- galiagalia County every yearyear.. once operational,operational, will Th e organizations include WVU Morgantown community are aware ment in exchange for a property tax HeHe said this one of manymany benebene-- be as well,”well,” Nelson Sierra Club Coalition, Mountain- of the situation. exemption. fi t’st’s the plant will bringbring to Mononga-Mononga- said.