By Brad Johnson, The Inter-Mountain
DAVIS — Three groups have banded together to appeal the state Department of Environmental Protection’s granting of an air quality permit for a proposed data center and power plant in Tucker County.
The appeal was filed Monday by Appalachian Mountain Advocates on behalf of Tucker United, a grass-roots group of local citizens who oppose the Fundamental Data project, and the environmental groups West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and the Sierra Club.
“We’re taking the next step in this fight because we believe the WV-DEP wrongfully hid critical information about this facility and incorrectly classified the gas- and diesel-fired power plant as a synthetic minor source of emissions instead of a major source,” Nikki Forrester of Tucker United said in a Sierra Club press release.
An evidentiary hearing on the appeal has been set for Nov. 5 before the West Virginia Air Quality Board.
