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Monday, August 23, 2010

Environment - More on: Scottsburg biomass project may be out

Updating this ILB entry from July 16, 2010, a long August 17th story in the Louisville Courier Journal reported by Grace Schneider begins:

The developers of a proposed wood-burning power plant in Scottsburg have gone to court to try to reverse a zoning panel’s decision in July to reject the development plans for the project.

A lawyer for Liberty Green Renewables LLC wrote in a petition filed last week in Scott Circuit Court that the Scott County Area Plan Commission violated state law by first approving plans for the power plant in August 2009 and then voting down a revised development plan that included a nearby site, even though that plan also met all legal and zoning requirements. * * *

Liberty Green had proposed building a 32-megawatt power station that would burn logging and milling waste to generate electrical power on city-owned property bordering U.S. 31 south of Scottsburg. But because of concerns about wetlands, the company also arranged to buy 10 adjacent acres, a site known as the “Murphy property” for its previous owner.

The plan commission approved the development blueprint with some conditions on the city property. But when the building outline of the power station was moved to the Murphy property, the development had to be reviewed as a new proposal.

The seven-member plan commission voted 4-2 against the project last month after a string of opponents cited concerns about plant emissions, truck traffic from deliveries of wood to the property and health consequences for area residents. The commission member who did not vote was on vacation.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 23, 2010 06:20 AM
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