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Photos: Protestors Oppose Ameren’s Dirty Power Plan

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Photo by Richard Reilly

Dozens of  demonstrators marched to Ameren Missouri’s St. Louis headquarters on Saturday to protest the utility’s plan to expand fossil fuel power generation. The event was organized by Sierra Club’s local chapter, with speakers from groups including Tenants Transforming St. Louis, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, and the Labadie Environmental Organization.

Ameren’s current plan to expand generation in Missouri, driven largely by rising electricity demand from new data centers, calls for building nine new natural gas plants and extending the life of two existing coal plants, including keeping all four units at the Labadie plant running until 2042.

Photos by Richard Reilly

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Richard Reilly

photographer of the built environment, architecture, and social actions on the streets. published in the guardian, rft, st louis post-dispatch, st louis business journal and others. a large sample for work is archived in the Missouri History Museum Collections as the Richard Reilly Social Protest Photograph Collection