Billion Dollar Set Backs for Jim Hood
Last week was a bad one for Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. First, Hood lost before a three judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals over a billion dollar lawsuit accusing Memphis of stealing Mississippi’s water.
This case is also interesting because Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley has said he wants to get involved in it, too.
The second big lost came to Hood’s challenge of Mississippi Power’s $2 billion Kemper Coal Plant, unanamously rejected by the three members of the Mississippi Public Service Commission. Hood, the Sierra Club, and two independent power producers (Entegra Power Group and Magnolia Energy) all had filed challenges to stop this new facility and the PSC rejected them all. It was a good win for Mississippi Power.
The Clarion Ledger and the Neshoba Democrat both editorialized this as a victory for more energy and more jobs.
Respond Mississippi Blog
6/11/9
