Local News in Brief : County OKs Power Plant
Over opposition from the recently approved City of Santa Clarita and local property owners, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday tentatively approved construction of a $35-million power plant in Placerita Canyon.
Carl Newton, acting city attorney for Santa Clarita, urged the supervisors to allow the future city to decide whether it makes sense to build a third power plant in the area. If the supervisors had postponed the vote, jurisdiction automatically would have been transferred to Santa Clarita when it officially becomes a city on Dec. 15.
But representatives of Tenneco Oil Co., which plans to build the gas-burning plant, said further delay by the county might jeopardize their plans for a co-generation plant, which would produce both steam and electricity for oil-field use and sale to Southern California Edison Co.
The supervisors, who voted 5-0 to permit the project, are expected to give final approval Dec. 8.
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