Joe Manchin takes credit
On Friday, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced that it has selected West Virginia for a 1,800-megawatt, combined-cycle natural gas power station (using Marcellus/Utica gas) that also uses carbon capture and storage (required window dressing in this day and age). The extremely unpopular WV Sen. Joe Manchin tried to take credit for the $3 billion project, to help rehabilitate his reputation (it didn't work, he's as unpopular as ever). The official announcement didn't say where the plant will be built, but one news account says it will get built in Doddridge County. The project will employ 1,000 people to build it and won't be ready until "later this decade." This is one of, if not THE largest gas-fired power plant we've heard of. And it will get built in WV! It's about time.
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