Coal Miners Show Up at WV Gas Plant Hearing to Oppose Project

In February, FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison announced they had selected a 35-acre site in Maidsville (Monongalia County), West Virginia, for a new 1,200-megawatt natural gas power plant (see FirstEnergy Announces 1,200-MW Gas-Fired Plant for Mon County, WV). Located adjacent to the existing Fort Martin Power Station, the new facility is scheduled to begin construction next year and be completed by 2031. The Public Service Commission (PSC) of West Virginia held a hearing on Wednesday about the project. The hearing was flooded with coal miners there to oppose it, saying it would endanger their jobs. They're wrong.

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