Round 2 of Old Dominion Electric Cooperative's battle in Surry County is about to begin. New public hearings start next month on the company's controversial proposal to build Cypress Creek Power Station, a 1,500-megawatt coal-burning power plant in Dendron.
After a lawsuit rendered its 2010 approval of the company's rezoning and conditional-use permits void, the Surry County Planning Commission has scheduled a new public hearing from 7 to 10 p.m. Feb. 27 at the county's government complex. If approved by that board, the applications would move to the Dendron Town Council for a similar hearing and vote.
Both the county's and town's first rounds of hearings were heated, drawing standing-room-only crowds that were about evenly split between supporters and opponents. Since the first round of hearings, several surrounding localities, including Williamsburg and Isle of Wight County, have had discussions about the project's potential environmental risks and regional economic development impact.
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