Judge cancels Montana gas plant's permit
over climate concerns
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/7/2023 7:19:20 PM
A judge canceled the air quality permit for a natural gas power plant that’s under construction along the Yellowstone River in Montana citing worries over climate change. State District Judge Michael Moses ruled Thursday that Montana officials failed to adequately consider the 23 million tons of planet-warming greenhouse gases that the project would emit over several decades. (Snip) The $250 million plant is being built by Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based NorthWestern Energy and would operate for at least 30 years. The company will appeal the order, a spokesperson said in a statement Friday, saying that the ruling could jeopardize reliable
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/7/2023 7:44:21 PM (No. 1443393)
Superstition rules the world. May as well claim Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god, is angry at the project. It would have more evidence to support it than the mythical global warming.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/7/2023 7:46:09 PM (No. 1443395)
Michael Glen Moses was a judge of the 13th Judicial District Court for Yellowstone County in Montana. He was appointed to the court by Democratic Governor Steve Bullock on April 18, 2014, and was sworn in on May 20, 2014. Moses ran for election to a full term in 2014, but was defeated in the primary. He stepped down from the bench at the end of 2014.
Moses was reappointed to the bench in 2015 and ran for election in 2016. As an incumbent running unopposed, he faced a retention election on November 8, 2016. Moses won retention in the election.
He also just announced his retirement Mar 1st...effective July 1st.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/7/2023 7:52:36 PM (No. 1443399)
And I assume he is going after private jets next? A power plant provides heat/air conditioning, light, powers tools, allows businesses to operate and be open, street lights, stop lights, hospital equipment, and on and on and on. And private jets provide . . . what exactly?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/7/2023 7:53:03 PM (No. 1443400)
During his tenure, Moses ruled on a number of high-profile cases: Last year, he temporarily blocked enforcement of a law that required transgender people to have undergone a “surgical procedure” before being allowed to change their sex on their birth certificates.
He also struck down three laws regulating Montana elections, saying they “severely” burdened the right to vote, especially for Native Americans, students, the elderly and voters with disabilities.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/7/2023 7:56:42 PM (No. 1443404)
It's going to take a real lesson like Yellowstone blowing a few cubic miles of itself into the atmosphere to teach the liberal idiots how silly they are about climate change.
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What precise law did he cite that enables him to do this?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/7/2023 8:48:15 PM (No. 1443422)
Legislation from the bench again... a certain judge needs to have his gas turned off in his house.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/7/2023 8:51:47 PM (No. 1443426)
Is that how it works? Any crackpot leftist judge can now order cattle to be outlawed because of global warming?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/7/2023 9:59:01 PM (No. 1443451)
Fight back. One judge shouldn't have the power to cut power peremptorily like that.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/7/2023 10:09:40 PM (No. 1443454)
May I add, we are a Republic, rule by the people, especially on the local level, as the Founders planned so carefully. Then we sent Representatives to the Federal level, and again, they are responsible for the local interests and needs, balanced with the national, then the Senate, a bunch of supposedly wise men (and women), to weigh and ponder the wild and often hot-tempers in the House.
The Judges need to stay out of politics and stick to their duties of adjudication. There's way too much court involvement in our lives. And since the Left has taken over universities and grad schools, teachers' colleges and medical schools, we've got a tough job rebalancing our political system as our wise Founders designed it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/7/2023 10:40:51 PM (No. 1443464)
A robed tyrant should never wield such power.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/7/2023 10:42:32 PM (No. 1443465)
There probably is not enough ink or paper to make a list of all the judges who have no evidence showing independently held wisdom. Their agenda is not only being driven by idiots, it is being jet propelled. Just imagine the lies and the misjudgments this robed fool (and his similarly placed cohort) has rendered and called it law.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2023 1:00:23 AM (No. 1443501)
CO2 does NOT warm the planet. Green plants gobble it up as quickly as it is created. And this judge has no authority to do this.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/8/2023 6:08:29 AM (No. 1443550)
Cancel the Judge, his spouse, his progeny and burn down his house! Build the plant anyway!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
franq 4/8/2023 9:26:00 AM (No. 1443677)
What law is the proposed power plant breaking?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/8/2023 10:23:13 AM (No. 1443745)
Judgie, thanks for your opinion, now go to your Prison Cell for illegal actions!
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This is crazy. How can one judge halt the power plant?