At least part of the Dec.1 complaint in which Platte County residents asked Gov. Mark Gordon to remove their commissioners from office is false, documents show.
Other parts are hotly disputed, multiple public officials told Cowboy State Daily in interviews this week.
Nearly two dozen people signed the 64-page complaint, addressed Dec. 1 to Gov. Mark Gordon, asking the governor to investigate and remove every member of the three-man Platte County Commission.
The controversy driving the complaint’s claims is a wind and renewable-energy project by NextEra Energy Resources, slated to continue its pitch to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality’s Industrial Siting Council on Dec. 29.
After that, the company may approach the commission next, for authorization to develop near Chugwater. It hasn’t yet submitted a formal application to the county, County Clerk Malcolm Ervin confirmed to Cowboy State Daily.
The complaint’s allegations cast the three county commissioners, Steve Shockley, Ian Jolovich, and Jeb Baker, as committing a number of wrongs to favor NextEra and disadvantage the project’s opponents.
“The conduct described herein constitutes, at minimum, malfeasance in office, neglect of duty, and violation of official oath,”says the document, “bringing the actions of Commissioners Shockley, Jolovich and Baker squarely within the reach of 18-3-523.”
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