When the state Public Service Commission approved a large natural gas plant that utilities say is badly needed in South Carolina, the oversight agency paid little attention to how the plant would affect the state’s environment, if it is built.
That’s the argument two property owners are making in asking the PSC to reconsider its approval for the plant between Charleston and Columbia. They say the PSC did not look at the environmental impacts carefully enough, accepting broad conclusions that the plant would not have a major effect on air, water and wetlands.
Dominion Energy and Santee Cooper, which want to build the $5 billion plant, commissioned an environmental report, but attorney Will Cook said the document lacked information the PSC could have used in making its decision. He represents landowners John Burbage and Lauren V. Moody Standfill…