Trial date set for lawsuit over pipeline project
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A judge has declined to rule on an injunction filed in an effort to stop a controversial water pipeline in East Tennessee, but he set a trial date in the lawsuit.
Media report that Greene County Chancery Court Judge Douglas Jenkins set a Jan. 22 trial date for a lawsuit filed by residents who are seeking to stop construction of the pipeline.
The plaintiffs argue that a vote taken by the Greene County Industrial Development Board on July 18 should be declared null and void because the public couldn’t hear deliberations on the issue.
The board voted at the meeting to apply for a permit to build the pipeline to transport water to and from the Nolichucky River for use by an industrial chemical plant.
