Homer City Gas Plant Wastewater Permit Draws Fire at DEP Hearing

The Homer City Energy Campus in Indiana County, PA, will be one of the country's largest natural gas-fired power plants under construction. It burns Marcellus gas, and it needs a lot of water to keep cool. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) held a public hearing on a permit change that would let the plant send up to 6.8 million gallons a day of used cooling water into Blacklick Creek. All of the roughly a dozen speakers opposed it. DEP says it will decide before the current permit expires at the end of this year. Here's what the opponents said, and what DEP's own paperwork says, which is a different story.

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