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85 mentions for outlet: The Knoxville News-Sentinel
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Eleven national environmental and consumer groups are backing a Knoxville-based Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition (TVERC) proposal for a regional oversight commission to study TVA's competitive positioning under impending utility deregulation. TVERC spokesperson Michelle Neal Conlon…
Opinion column by Sam Venable criticizing TVA's handling of environmental activist Stephen Smith at a board meeting in Tullahoma. Smith, director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, was escorted out for arriving late to sign…
“such deals grant benefits to industries at the expense of residential ratepayers”
“TVA has lost sight of its original mission. He says the agency is seeking to dodge congressional accountability by jettisoning nonpower programs and focusing solely on being a power company.”
TVA Police Director Bob Carter urged anti-nuclear protesters marking the 10th anniversary of Chernobyl to conduct themselves peacefully during demonstrations at TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant near Spring City, Tennessee. The article recounts a 1994 protest…
“On one level, there were all these bad omens — the horrible weather, the emergency landing. But we walked away from the plane, and the protest was a primo event.”
Anti-nuclear activists, including Stephen Smith of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, protested at a TVA board meeting against plans to fuel the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in November 1995. The coalition and other activists urged…
“lack of clear leadership”
“the fix is in on funds for finishing the plant”
A U.S. General Accounting Office draft report concludes that TVA is in serious financial distress due to massive borrowing for its failed nuclear power program, with $14 billion in debt tied to non-producing nuclear assets. The…
“TVA's current energy efficiency programs are anemic. These are not programs you would expect from an environmental leader.”
“TVA is in desperation … trying to silence its critics.”
TVA Chairman Craven Crowell announced that three unfinished nuclear units may never be completed and the restart of another unit is questionable, as part of TVA's integrated resource planning process. The agency released Energy Vision 2020,…
The Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition (TVEC) expresses concern that TVA Chairman Marvin Runyon may cut the agency's energy conservation programs as part of a $300 million budget reduction. TVEC President Greg Mackay argues that conservation is…
“TVA needs an honest estimate of what really needs to be done at Sequoyah, how long it is really likely to take and what the costs are really likely to be”
