By KEN WARD JR.
Charleston Gazette-Mail
(Dept. of Energy photo via AP by Simon Edelman)
Editor’s Note: This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Three years ago, a group of residents in West Virginia’s northern panhandle formed a new group, the Ohio Valley Jobs Alliance, and declared themselves a “voice for local jobs.”
A few months later, however, the group’s first major action was aimed not at creating jobs, but at blocking them.
In November 2015, the alliance, known as the OVJA, filed a legal appeal to challenge a key permit for construction of the Moundsville Power project, a natural gas-fired plant in Marshall County.
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