TVA criticized for ending valleywide rate meetings
“one more block in the wall of TVA's perceived siege mentality”
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TVA needs to reassess nuclear program
“The problem is that nuclear power is taking over a billion dollars a year in construction and another half billion dollars a year in operating and maintenance costs and in two and a half years it hasn't produced a single watt of electricity”
TVA to schedule meetings for public
“It is a step. We're encouraged that, after some deliberation, Mr. Runyon has decided to open management up to the people of the valley.”
Open Minds Urged On Sequatehie Plan
A letter to the editor from Jack Pine of Dunlap, Tennessee, responding to coverage of a public meeting on a proposed pumped storage power plant in Bledsoe County. Pine argues for keeping an open mind about…
Foes of Tellico Landing gather to have their say
“Everything I've learned about the project so far raises a lot of concerns for me”
TVA Director To Help Protect Jobs In Agency Shakeup
TVA Director Johnny Hayes testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on his confirmation, promising to protect employee jobs amid a proposal to eliminate the agency's $106 million annual federal appropriation. The proposal aims…
Energy Coalition studies issues, tries to speak up for public
“Mostly why we do it is it's important”
Lawmakers laud plan to tighten TVA
“I think it would be very difficult to keep the rates down, primarily because of the bind that the clear program has TVA in”
Group charges foul on TVA over contract
“The award, combined with TVA's refusal to provide any factual basis for its decision, raises the question of whether TVA's ratepayers are protected against contractor takeover even after the reforms of the 1986 conflict-of-interest scandal”
TVA BOARD TO ALLOT OVER $80 MILLION TO NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM
TVA Board approved over $80 million for its nuclear power program, with $30 million allocated to the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant. The Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition criticized TVA's continued nuclear investment as diverting resources…
DOE junks its waste plan; SOCM claims win
The Department of Energy has scrapped a plan to privatize treatment and disposal of mixed radioactive and hazardous wastes at Oak Ridge, citing widespread community opposition. Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM) and local residents, particularly in…
Conservation head, 2 others endorsed for TVA post
A coalition of 43 regional public interest groups, including the Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition, endorsed three candidates for a vacant TVA board seat: Tennessee Conservation Commissioner Charles Howell III, Worldwatch Institute analyst William Chandler, and University…
Group urges TVA to think about junking nuke program
“It seems all the efforts of the past year and a half have made very little headway. It's time to consider an alternative to what we have now.”
Protest marks years of site's construction
Environmental activists, including Earth First! members, staged a protest at the TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant in Chattanooga to mark the facility's 23rd birthday while it remains under construction. The plant, which began permitting in…
Residence rate hike approved by TVA
“TVA's refusal to conduct such a study may run counter to federal requirements”