TVA OKs $1.5 billion for coal plant scrubbers
“This is great and very timely”
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TVA's $1.5B order for scrubbers to improve air quality, cut haze
“This is great and very timely”
Sen. Frist meets with EPA head to discuss Smokies air pollution
“We have been concerned that the detail associated with Clear Skies is lacking. Clear Skies is really just a framework, and the details are just not there.”
TVA to cut coal plant emissions
“Our fear is that with its $25 billion debt, TVA won't be able to do all that it wants to, and its future spending on clean air may be one of the first casualties”
TVA OKs coal plant scrubbers
“This is great and very timely”
Whitman visits Smokies park
“the plan would actually cut those pollutants by about half in a decade, and make the 70 percent target by 2018. "But there would be no guarantees," he said.”
EPA eases clean air regulations
“TVA and other utilities hit with New Source Review violations are contributing to up to 4,475 deaths and more than 87,000 asthma attacks each year. Despite some voluntary commitments to reduce pollution from utilities like the Tennessee Valley Authority, there are still thousands of additional tons of emissions that are not being controlled.”
New life for Bellefonte?
“Bellefonte is a white elephant around TVA's neck. TVA continues to want to go back to its old way of thinking and try to force these nuclear plants down the throats of ratepayers whether we need them or not. The Southeast is awash with energy, and we just don't need to contaminate another site with radioactive wastes.”
TVA board backs plan to restart reactor
“TVA has a very poor record in meeting its cost projections in its nuclear operations and they are assuming that this unit will run 92 percent of the time, which I think is highly unlikely”
Board OKs restart of Alabama reactor
The Tennessee Valley Authority board voted to restart the mothballed Unit 1 reactor at Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama, set for May 2007. Environmental activists, including a member of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy,…
TVA to look into private financing for Browns Ferry
“it is reckless for TVA to operate outside the oversight and control of any institution”
Critics hit Browns Ferry financing
“TVA is making too many promises to too many people. They promised the White House, the state and the people they would clean up the air (from coal-fired plant emissions); they're promising the distributors and nuclear power folks they will get this nuclear power plant on line; and they're promising to keep the rates low and keep the debt down. There's a point at which you've promised more than you can deliver. Do the math. Show me the money.”
NUCLEAR: Some oppose reactor gamble / Environmentalists say restarting reactor a gamble
“No other utility could get away with doing this - making a $1.8 billion decision based on staff recommendation. This is a huge, huge gamble. This is a very risky proposition for ratepayers.”
Environmentalists opposed to restarting old TVA reactor
“No other utility could get away with doing this — making a $1.8 billion decision based on staff recommendation. This is a huge, huge gamble. This is a very risky proposition for ratepayers.”
Nuclear restart attracts interest
“If the minority leader of the Senate says he wants to see a plan on how to reduce debt, that's about as big a shot across the bow as you can get without George Bush delivering the message”