Gas-Fired Power Plant Proposal Spurs Complaints
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Tenaska's natural gas interests includes sites in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Now the energy company's proposed a gas-fired power plant. Image: tenaska.com
January 23, 2015
By Liz Reid
Gas is in and coal is on the way out. But as gas-fired power plants increase, environmentalists question the potential impact of this newer energy source on air and water quality. These questions arose in what's traditionally been a coal hot spot, southwestern Pennsylvania, where a gas-fired power plant has been proposed.
Methane was one of a number of concerns that came up this week.
Omaha-based energy company Tenaska wants to put a new gas-fired power plant in Smithton, Pennsylvania, a borough of about 400 people, along the Youghiogheny River, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.