Yeongyang Nonghyup and Cheongsong Yeongyang Livestock Cooperative Join Relay Campaign to Support Pumped Storage Power Plant Attraction

The Pan-Citizen Committee for Attracting the Pumped Storage Power Plant to Yeongyang County, Gyeongbuk (hereinafter referred to as the Pan-Citizen Committee) conducted a campaign on the 4th at the intersection in front of the Yeongyang Registry Office of Daegu District Court, together with executives and employees of Yeongyang Nonghyup and Cheongsong-Yeongyang Livestock Cooperative, to attract the pumped storage power plant to Yeongyang County.

Yeongyang Nonghyup united in the 'Pumped Storage Power Plant Hosting Prayer Relay Campaign.'

About 40 people participated in the campaign, including County Governor O Do-chang, Yang Bong-cheol, Standing Chairman of the Pan-Citizen Committee, Hwang Dae-gyu, Chairman of Cheongsong-Yeongyang Livestock Cooperative, executives and employees of Yeongyang Nonghyup and Cheongsong-Yeongyang Livestock Cooperative, and Yeongyang County Office staff, lending their support to attract the pumped storage power plant, the only opportunity to save Yeongyang from the risk of extinction.

The pumped storage power plant that Yeongyang County is promoting to attract will involve a construction cost of 2 trillion won in national funds, contributing to revitalizing the local economy, increasing population, expanding infrastructure, and boosting tourism. It will also secure 1.4 billion won annually in local taxes, making it an unprecedented opportunity to revive Yeongyang County, which is facing the risk of regional extinction. Therefore, all residents are hoping for the attraction of the power plant.

On June 30, Yeongyang County Governor O Do-chang, County Council Chairman Kim Seok-hyun, Yang Bong-cheol, Standing Chairman of the Pan-Citizen Committee for Attracting the Pumped Storage Power Plant to Yeongyang County, and about 20 others visited the headquarters of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to submit the application for attracting the pumped storage power plant.

Hwang Dae-gyu, Chairman of Cheongsong-Yeongyang Livestock Cooperative, said, “I am pleased to participate in attracting the pumped storage power plant, a long-cherished project of Yeongyang, and until the day the power plant is successfully attracted, Yeongyang Nonghyup and Cheongsong-Yeongyang Livestock Cooperative will continue to lend their support.”

Following this, Standing Chairman Yang Bong-cheol said, “I thank the executives and employees of Yeongyang Nonghyup and Cheongsong-Yeongyang Livestock Cooperative, as well as Yeongyang County Office staff, who participated in the campaign early in the morning to attract the pumped storage power plant. The attraction of the pumped storage power plant is Yeongyang County’s last hope and its largest national project. Let all residents unite as one to ensure the power plant is successfully attracted.”

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