An organization called “WHEN Justice” has launched a campaign to raise money in support of the appeal of Homer City Redevelopment’s permit to build the nation’s largest gas-fired power plant.
The Clean Air Council, Penn Future, and Sierra Club filed the appeal last December with the state’s Environmental Hearing Board, claiming the approval was granted based on flawed emissions analysis and an evaluation of only the power plant and not the entire development, and without consideration of the environmental and social costs.
Calling the project “the dirtiest gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania,” the Clean Air Council’s Tom Pike says in a WHEN Justice video that they have ‘’stopped multiple gas plants in recent years using the same formula (they are) using on this one.”
WHEN Justice terms the new power plant a “fracked-gas” plant and is seeking to raise $200,000 to pay for expert testimony to be used in the appeal. So far, as of this weekend, it has raised $360. WHEN Justice does not publish its corporate location but its contact information directs respondents to California.
No date has been set for the appeal. The defendants named by the complainants are the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Department of Environmental Protection, and Homer City Generation, LP.
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