Mississippi Business Journal » coal plant http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Miss. high court hears appeal on coal-fired plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/14/miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/14/miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:54:57 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=49658 The Mississippi Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Wednesday on the Sierra Club’s challenge to a $2.9 billion power plant in Kemper County. Mississippi Power Co., a unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co., wants to build the coal-fired plant, which would be powered by lignite mined nearby. The project was approved last year by the Mississippi [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/14/miss-high-court-hears-appeal-on-coal-fired-plant/feed/ 0 Miss. justices send coal suit back to lower court http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/08/miss-justices-send-coal-suit-back-to-lower-court/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miss-justices-send-coal-suit-back-to-lower-court http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/08/miss-justices-send-coal-suit-back-to-lower-court/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:25:16 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/2010/10/miss-justices-send-coal-suit-back-to-lower-court/ JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has sent back to a chancery court a lawsuit that seeks to block a coal-fired, electric-generating plant in east-central Mississippi. The lawsuit was in response to the Mississippi Public Service Commission’s decision to ease restrictions it had put on the project in Kemper County. The Sierra Club [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/08/miss-justices-send-coal-suit-back-to-lower-court/feed/ 0 Miss. Power says PSC request for natural gas forecasts unnecessary http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/11/25/miss-power-says-psc-request-for-natural-gas-forecasts-unnecessary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miss-power-says-psc-request-for-natural-gas-forecasts-unnecessary http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/11/25/miss-power-says-psc-request-for-natural-gas-forecasts-unnecessary/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:06:23 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/2009/11/miss-power-says-psc-request-for-natural-gas-forecasts-unnecessary/ Mississippi Power Company said it believes the Public Service Commission’s request for additional natural gas price forecasts for an upcoming power plant hearing is vague and unnecessary. The second round of hearings regarding Mississippi Power’s proposed Kemper County lignite coal plant will begin in February. The Public Utilities Staff filed a motion supporting Mississippi Power’s [...]

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