Pamela Moe was reading the paper in late March when she spotted a public notice from a company she’d never heard of.

Fundamental Data, a Virginia-based company, had applied for a permitfrom West Virginia’s Division of Air Quality related to the construction of a standalone natural gas-fired power plant — one that wouldn’t sell electricity to consumers, but rather use it on-site. The proposed facility would be situated on 500 acres of land between…