Minnesota high court to take up Nemadji Trail environmental-review order


Minnesota high court to take up Nemadji Trail environmental-review order


Minnesota’s high court will review a lower court’s ruling that ordered a new environmental review for a proposed $700 million natural-gas plant in Superior.

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to look at a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision from December that found the state’s Public Utilities Commission should have considered the likely environmental effects of building the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy center in northwest Wisconsin when it advanced the project in October 2018. The ruling could result in a significant delay in the project and would force Minnesota regulators to conduct a new environmental review of the project.

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Ken Notes: In my next life I will definitely be an environmental lawyer.

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