Setback in Sevier County
Opposition to a coal fired power plant in Sevier County suffered a setback when a state judge ruled to toss a citizen group's referendum off the November ballot.In making his decision, District Judge Wallace Lee used a new state law barring the citizens' initiative process from such land-use cases. County residents had fought for months to put Sevier Power Co.'s construction of the proposed coal-fired power plant to a public vote.
The referendum signatures arrived two days before the new law took effect, but the county commission took no action for several days.
The law, however, still faces a constitutional challenge because it limits local initiative and referendum powers. The power plant also faces a legal assault by the Sierra Club on air quality standards.
1 Comments:
Typically biased Tribune reporting. The photo is misleading. The Sevier power plant won't be anywhere near the size of the one in the photo.
Describing this as a "setback" depends on your point of view. Only liberals who really think we can forego any new coal plants in the near and intermediate term would call this a setback.
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