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“This process should be happening in a fishbowl. I'm very disappointed. I really think that Zach Wamp should not have closed this meeting. Is he representing the interests of a few at the top of TVA or is he representing the millions who have a stake in what is happening here?”
“It was designed to take Congress' attention off the power subsidies (TVA gets), but it didn't work that way”
“This is not a decision that TVA's Board of Directors can make unilaterally. This is a fundamental change in the direction of the agency. We the people need more information before a decision is made.”
Stephen A. Smith, director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, was escorted out of a TVA board meeting in Tullahoma after missing a three-minute registration deadline to speak during the public listening session. Smith, a…
“Valley ratepayers are ill-served by this lack of oversight”
“It's a sad day for Tennessee when we have no environmental heroes in the state's 11-member delegation”
A Knoxville environmentalist and executive director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, Stephen A. Smith, crashed a rented plane en route to Alabama where he planned to protest forest product exports. Smith and four others…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a biological technique using bacteria to convert sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plants into hydrogen sulfide, which can then be converted to common sulfur for industrial use. The process…
“TVA's commitment to energy efficiency in the plan is weak”
“TVA's refusal to conduct such a study may run counter to federal requirements”
“After the TVA announcement in December about the three units, a lot of people think that Watts Bar has been canceled. Unit 2 is what they are looking at canceling, but not Unit 1. TVA's decision to cancel Unit 2 was good, but they continue to throw a lot of money at Unit 1”
Fifty-two Earth First protesters arrested Monday after blocking the entrance to Watts Bar Nuclear Plant for three hours were ordered to post $1,000 bond each or remain in jail until a July 19 preliminary hearing on…
“A major effect of the new format for Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition is that the nuclear program will be in effect shielded from questions about their operations”
TVA power planners disputed a Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition report claiming that restarting Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant would cost more than building a new coal-fired plant. TVA's Lynn Maxwell stated the agency's analysis shows restart costs…
The Department of Energy is exploring options to dispose of or reuse approximately 200 tons of bomb-grade uranium from the nuclear stockpile stored at Y-12 in Oak Ridge. DOE's preferred plan involves blending the highly-enriched uranium…
