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Eight Other Reasons Not To Like Cobb EMC
Just a quick review of the growing list of developments that peg Cobb EMC as out of touch, contemptuous of the opinions of its members and the general public, and the target of increasing criticism:
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The fact that Cobb EMC has now gone through two election cycles without elections, but refuses to take any steps to compensate for this lack of membership oversight, like allowing members to routinely attend Board of Directors’ meetings. The lack of accountability has become breathtaking.
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The Cobb grand jury investigation of possible criminal wrongdoing continues—the investigation that last year led to the police raids on the homes and office of CEO Dwight Brown and three Directors.
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The overwhelming opposition to Plant Washington displayed at the public hearings held by the Environmental Protection Division in October in Sandersville.
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The Brantley County Board of Commissioners' unanimous adoption recently of a resolution condemning the plans of the CEMC-backed consortium, Power4Georgians, to build yet another coal-fired power plant, in Ben Hill County. The Commissioners expressed alarm at the threat that mercury from the plant would pose to local watersheds.
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A concerned citizen in Tifton expressing the same alarm about the plant’s mercury in an op-ed in her local newspaper. She also cited all the other hazardous and health-threatening pollutants from coal plants that can cause chronic bronchitis, aggravated asthma, and premature death.
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The publication of an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in January by civil rights icon, the Reverend Joseph Lowery, that condemned both the construction of new coal plants in Georgia and Cobb EMC’s role in their construction, and called for a change of leadership in Cobb EMC.
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Cobb EMC’s failure to respond to two new studies in October that found substantial hidden costs in the emissions from coal-fired power plants, primarily because of the horrendous impact on our health.
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The call by WSB radio consumer advocate Clark Howard, during his July 20 show, for Cobb Countians as part of "their civic duty" to "throw the rascals out at Cobb EMC." Howard’s parting advice to EMC customers was, once the court allows board elections to occur, "remove every - every - incumbent board member of Cobb EMC, and get the stench out of there."
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