Staff Reports
The Florida Supreme Court has declined to hear Florida Power & Light Co.’s appeal of a lower court ruling blocking the company’s plan to build two new nuclear power reactors at Turkey Point.
The court issued an order declining to accept jurisdiction in the case.
The move leaves intact a ruling by the 3rd District Court of Appeal rejecting the nuclear plant addition.
The city of Miami, Miami-Dade County, and other municipalities in the region had challenged a vote by Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet to allow the project to move forward.
The 3rd DCA said Scott and the Cabinet, sitting as the state Siting Board, had failed to apply Miami’s land regulations and mistakenly thought it lacked authority to order the utility to bury transmission lines.
