BLUE VALLEY — The Kansas Sierra Club plans to stage a protest before a public hearing in Johnson County on a controversial proposal to build a new coal-burning power plant near Garden City. The Kansas Department of Health of Environment is holding a public hearing this afternoon at 2 at Blue Valley Northwest High School near Stilwell about Sunflower Eectric’s proposal to build the giant power plant in western Kansas. The Sierra Club’s Stephanie Cole said a rally against the proposal will be before the hearing at 1:30 at Blue Valley Northwest High School. Alternative energy activist Bruce Nilles, named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 100 People Who are Changing America, will speak at the rally.
Monday, Aug. 2, 11:30 a.m.
