Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

Inside Climate News: Columbia Riverkeeper and Friends of the Columbia Gorge asked a Multnomah County court on Monday to review a "grievously" unlawful decision by the Oregon Department of Energy to allow construction of the controversial Perennial Wind Chaser Station power plant. If built, the plant would be one of the state's largest stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

The nonprofit environmental groups alleged that the state allowed developers to avoid required stormwater and air pollution permits and meet a Sept. 23 construction deadline by breaking the construction into "phases." They claimed that grading the site in preparation for an access road represented "phase 1" of the plant construction in a way that was never approved by a state siting panel.

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