Recently after 7 months of a citizens stewardship co-alition taking a public stance against the re-zoning of city land for a gas power plant in the middle of Port Alberni BC Canada we were able to convince city council to vote against rezoning there own property. We have an inversion layer here and many residents spoke out against the plan with only a few in favor of. There were many things that game out in the public hearings such as one spoke of an article in a Electrical industry magazine that discussed Legionaire's disease can accumulate in the cooling towers of one of these plants because of the condensing steam unless they are cleaned several times a day .The company involved was Calpine in partnership with our government owned BC Hydro.We were very public and collected petitions and wrote lots of letters to every goverment official we could think of .We were and are committed to stopping having things like this crammed down our throats. These companies think they can do anything these days.They are relying on our apathy. Good luck.
RM