Wind tower installed on Buffalo Mountain
“Wind has the real potential to play a significant role in the coming decades”
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Bacon's insurance on nuclear plants unchanged since Sept. 11
“Post-Sept. 11 you should have greater investment in security and greater investment in things like insurance. With the ongoing sophistication and threats from terrorism ... the likelihood of a nuclear plant attack has dramatically increased. They couldn't build another nuclear plant for $2.06 billion (insurance coverage), but they could replace it with another form of power like natural gas.”
'Green Power Switch' helps support new TVA facilities
“Electricity made by solar, wind and methane technologies costs slightly more now, but these programs are an environmental necessity”
TVA joins coalition that hires lobbyist to fight Clean Air Act
“Our hometown utility has jumped in there to use rate payer money to buy influence to weaken the Clean Air Act. We find that highly offensive”
Tri-Cities death rate from coal-fired plant soot ranks near top
A national clean air campaign report finds that the Tri-Cities ranks fifth highest in the nation for deaths caused by soot from coal-fired power plants, with 154 deaths annually attributed to particulate pollution. The report, backed…
Cleaner Smokies would boost tourism
“It is a logical assumption that it would be affecting our economies. Now we can actually quantify it.”