The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld state approval for Florida-based NTE Energy to build a $700 million, 650-MW gas-fired power plant and dismissed opponents’ claim that regulators should not have approved the project without also considering environmental impacts of necessary upgrades to a feeder natural gas pipeline.
The court ruled Sept. 28 that the Connecticut Siting Council properly refused to consider environmental impacts of installing a natural gas pipeline to the proposed plant when weighing the project’s public benefit.