The Ohio Supreme Court will have the final say on whether Jefferson Township voters get to decide if they want to keep the township’s recently approved wind turbine amendment to the zoning ordinance.

The amendment has survived a gauntlet of legal challenges since it was first approved by the township’s zoning board in September. A decision in favor of the prowind property owners who filed the Supreme Court challenge on Wednesday would be the final stroke in making the zoning amendment official.

The opposite ruling by the state’s high court would leave the decision up to township voters who go to the polls for the March 4 primary election.

State Supreme Court justices this morning will hear arguments over a proposal to build 124 giant wind-power turbines along 23 miles of Greenbrier County ridges.

Local opponents of the Beech Ridge Energy LLC project are appealing the state Public Service Commission’s decision to approve the $300 million development.

Mountain Communities for Responsible Energy argues that the PSC ignored its own permit regulations and did not obtain adequate information about the wind project’s potential impacts before approving it.