I am against giving a permit for a proposed Ridgeline power plant, as reported in The Inter-Mountain, June 28, 2025. Why should we, in West Virginia, breathe in 9.7 tons of hazardous air pollutants every year for the benefit of someone who conceals their purposes and their identity?

Children are most at risk because they have higher respiratory rates and breathe closer to the ground, where the more dangerous pollutants lie. I am not willing to risk the health of even one child, for someone else’s hidden profit motive.

Also, where are the faceless fundamentalists going to receive the natural gas they plan to use to operate a mysterious power plant?

I say, “Nip it! Nip it in the bud!”

Ellen Payne

Dailey