Power Plant
Created: 3/9/2010 8:24:20 AM
The Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld a
state air quality permit for a power plant north of Gillette.
Construction of the Dry Fork Station plant is about 75 percent
complete. Friday's ruling lifts one of the few remaining obstacles
before the Basin Electric plant becomes fully operational next
year.
The Powder River Basin Resource Council and the Sierra Club
challenged a permit the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
issued for the plant in 2007.
The groups claimed the power plant could unacceptably harm air
quality north of the power plant site on the Northern Cheyenne
Indian Reservation in Montana.
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that state regulators granted
the permit correctly.
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