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Evan Mulholland is the Healthy Communities Program Director for the Minnesota Center For Environmental Advocacy
According to the MCEA website: Evan holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Brandeis University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School. Prior to working at MCEA, Evan was a Assistant Attorney General at the New Hampshire Department of Justice and served as Compliance Bureau Chief of the Air Resources Division at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.
The federal government has approved the siting of a new combined cycle power plant in Superior, WI., the Nemadji Trail Energy Center. The $700 million project of Minnesota Power and Light, Basin Electric Power Cooperative and Dairyland Power Cooperative will result in a 625 megawatt gas power plant that's intended to provide necessary buffering and stability to the power grid with the addition of renewable power from other sources, if it ever gets built.
Planning for the project began seven years ago but permitting and lawfare have prevented a single spade of earth being turned over or the welding of one pipe joint. Much of this delay and probably more will be the task of MCEA figure Evan Mulholland, pictured above. He is a member of a class of legalists whose specialty is the obstruction of progress in the name of environmental stasis, a post-modern occupation. No such concerns were present during the construction of the railroads, inter-state highways or the electrical transmission system that insures almost continuous service to any American that cares to use it. Times have changed.
Nemadji Trail Energy Center Update: Local resistance to the new power house is being described by the local news media. A rally is planned for outside the Douglas County courthouse on March 19.
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