Coal plant debate rages on

I admit I am not real well read on this issue but I will put my two cents in anyway. This is how I see it:

The State had some kind of law that the KDHE had to approve or deny any new construction such as the coal plants proposed for Finney County. The plan was submitted to the KDHE and was subsequently denied.

The company wanting to build the coal plant, Sunflower Electric, had assumed that the KDHE approval was merely a formality, that of course they would build it....

Now everyone is in an uproar that the plan was denied, and state legislators are trying to get around the due process that took place in the denial.

Thats about it in a nutshell...As for my opinion of whether the plant should be built...I haven't made up my mind about it. I think it's obvious that most of the power is going to go out of state to as far away as California. I think that the number of jobs beyond the initial construction (which would probably be contracted to an out of state firm anyway) is miniscule. I used to live in Finney county and never met anyone who worked at the Electric plant, and I am assuming that it doesn't create that many jobs in operating the plant.