Tag: hearings

A new public hearing has been scheduled by the Surry County Planning Commission for Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s proposed coal-fueled power plant. The controversial proposal to build the Cypress Creek Power Station, a 1,500megawatt coal-burning plant to be built on 1,200acres in Dendron, Virginia was met with a lawsuit that rendered the Commission’s 2010 approval of the company’s rezoning and conditional-use permits void.

The State of New York has begun public hearings on natural gas drilling rules in the Marcellus Shale. Environmentalists say that the rules currently in place are too lax, but industry says that they are so restrictive drillers would avoid exploring in the state.