Ark. high court vetos permit for coal-fired plant is a big mistake in my opinion. Let the spilled blood of the people that could have had employment be on your hands and the helpless people that became prey. Arkansas is a natural state filled with natural resources which is the financial backbone of the city, state, country and world and we should be able to support our families and friends and not have to owe our neighbors. New sub-divisions are replacing old neighborhoods with housing of more square footage which require more power and more appliances to supply power too. The old grids cannot handle the loads and during peak times of usage, customers are asked to turn off their power or reduce usage. This can cause an increase in your utility bills because of power outages from blown transformers and cause some customers to not be able to pay their bills. Having this coal-plant in this area is creating jobs and helping reducing costs by splitting the load to different plants which will help keep power flowing for longer periods of time at lesser costs to the customers. I think the vote for the coal-plant's permit being granted should come from the people. Especially those that are unemployed and facing foreclosure, homelessness, not receiving child support payments, don't know where their next meals will come from. It's not fair for your family and friends to be able to enjoy themselves after denying a permit that could have given them the same opportunity. I hope the PSC can convince the judge to change his/her mind on this issue.... Treasia Black

the coal fired plant in newark has not hurt a thing. to bad the judge is stupid.i have seen the place where they are building not much around but a dirty river.we need to do this to get away from oil

The big rave right now is job creation. We have a perfect opportunity to create some right here and our government want to stop that. The liberal hippies don't want us to use any natural resources. No oil because of spills and God forbid, "greenhouse gases". No wind turbines because they aren't pretty. No dams because somehow they contribute to "climate change" and a fish might die. Nuclear and coal-fired plants...forget it. Maybe we should make it illegal to use natural resources altogether to satisfy a few hippies. Suck it.