While the highest point in Jacksonville might only be 54 feet, we do have mountains here. You could say we import them. According to Appalachian Voices, there are two coal-fired power plants in the JEA service area that have been purchasing coal directly from mountaintop removal operations in Central Appalachia in the last five years - St Johns River Power Park and Cedar Bay Generating LP. Not only does Appalachia lose its mountains, but by burning that coal, Jacksonville's waterways get all that mercury that's been locked up in those mountains. Shipping Appalachian mountains to Jacksonville...what's next, sending the St. Johns River to South Florida? Oh, yeah, there are plans for that, too.
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