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134 mentions for topic: Gas
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Georgia Power's plan to build three new oil and gas-burning units at Plant Yates in Coweta County faced scrutiny at a Georgia Public Service Commission hearing on July 24, 2024. The utility seeks to add fossil…
Environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy filed a petition with Georgia's Public Service Commission to reconsider its December 2025 approval of Georgia Power's historic $60 billion expansion of gas-burning power plants and battery…
“I think it's a tough job right now to be a utility load forecaster or planner because it's such a critical moment. But it's so important that we get it right, right now.”
“That's a significant chunk of money and those 10 million people deserve a say in how it gets spent”
Cheatham County homeowners are protesting TVA surveys of their properties for a transmission line project linked to a proposed methane gas plant that has not yet been approved. Homeowners claim the TVA violated due process by…
“The myriad terrible things those pollutants do to the human body, especially over time. That is why this Roxboro plant sitting next to the elementary school is, in my mind, unconscionable.”
“TVA's aggressive expansion into gas infrastructure could set a precedent for decades, locking in reliance on fossil fuels”
“We're not joking when we call it the Humpty Dumpty reactor. We think they ought to quit throwing good money after bad.”
Angela Garrone, Southeast Energy Research Attorney at SACE, discusses EPA's delay in issuing final carbon pollution regulations for new coal plants, originally scheduled for April 13, 2013. The delay creates regulatory uncertainty for projects like Plant…
“We are in this kind of transition stage that quite frankly requires leadership. Because of the influence of political (campaign) contributions at all levels, we just haven't seen much leadership in recent years.”
“These two different types of land use simply are not compatible. It will be expensive, it will be loud, it will be ugly, it will be huge, it will pollute, and it will require water resources, likely from the nearby Yadkin River, that will no longer be available for agriculture. And it isn't even needed. All this complex will do is turn methane gas into combustion pollution and move money from ratepayers' pockets into shareholders' portfolios.”
“The power plant is a giant industrial facility. It has significant emissions. It completely changes the landscape in western Davidson County from this agricultural economy to a massive industrial facility.”
“The approval is going to set us even further back on making climate progress. It's really frustrating, because we were making incremental progress as a state.”
“Drilling there would have profound implications for the Southeast”
“This is a very big project, a very consequential project, and it's going to be a testing ground for kind of how this new framework plays out”
