"SCSJ filed a brief Monday with the North Carolina Court of Appeals requesting their lawsuit against the rezoning be heard. The lawsuit, filed in early 2024, challenges Person County's redesignation of land zoned rural residential and conservation to industrial, including heavy industrial, for Enbridge - formerly Dominion Energy - to build and operate MEC, a liquified methane storage facility. The rezoning was passed by the Person County Board of Commissioners in December 2023 despite overwhelming community opposition."
"SCSJ appealed the dismissal earlier this year. "Should this not be remedied in an interlocutory appeal, the Plaintiffs risk never being able to be heard in a meaningful manner," the brief states. "Already, the facility is being built. If Plaintiffs are forced to wait until the conclusion of proceedings to pursue their rights, it may well be too late. A meaningful hearing after the gas is on the ground and the emissions are in the air is no meaningful hearing at all.""
SCSJ filed a brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals seeking review of a lawsuit challenging Person County's rezoning that reclassified rural residential and conservation land as industrial, including heavy industrial, for Enbridge to build the Moriah Energy Center, a liquified methane storage facility. The Board of Commissioners approved the rezoning in December 2023 despite strong community opposition. Nearly all claims were dismissed after County and Enbridge argued plaintiffs lacked standing; SCSJ appealed. The brief argues that an interlocutory appeal is necessary because construction has begun and delaying review could render remedies ineffective and harm residents' homes, health, and daily lives.
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