TVA energy plan faulted as backward-looking
“You don't have any vision anymore, contrary to the name of this draft . . .”
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TVA OKs $71.7 million for Watts Bar
“the fix is in on funds for finishing the plant”
TVA's power forecasting methods questioned
The Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition charged that TVA's $20 billion nuclear power program was based on faulty electricity-demand forecasting since the mid-1970s and that the utility continues to use flawed methods. The coalition argues TVA…
Watts Bar Protest Participant Wants To Stay On TVA Panel
“it's not going to work”
Watts Bar Unbarred
“TVA should instead invest in helping its customers use energy wisely so we can protect both the environment and our pocketbooks”
Environmentalists rip into GOP congressional votes
“It's a sad day for Tennessee when we have no environmental heroes in the state's 11-member delegation”
TVA urges Watts Bar protesters to be peaceful
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…
Lawmakers praise TVA decision
“Nowhere else can an electric utility board unilaterally raise rates without review and approval of an independent regulatory body”
Gore hints at support of TVA keeping nonpower programs
Vice President Al Gore indicated support for TVA retaining control of its environmental and flood-control programs during a Nashville visit. The article discusses TVA Chairman Craven Crowell's proposal to transfer non-power programs to other federal agencies,…
Lawsuit challenges TVA-steel mill power agreement
“such deals grant benefits to industries at the expense of residential ratepayers”
TVA Tilts Balance In Favor Of Development
“These lands and our tax dollars for years have been taken by this "Authority" for the greater public good, not the narrow financial interest of a few in positions of power”
TVA board to examine possibility of boosting power rate
TVA's board is expected to decide in late July 1997 whether to raise electric rates for the first time in a decade, with residential ratepayers likely to bear the largest burden. The article discusses TVA's $27.8…
Environmental groups launch Southeast coal ash map
“Four years after the Kingston spill, we still do not have federal regulations for coal ash and what to do with coal ash impoundment”
Knox man is arrested in protest after crash
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…
Unsanctioned haze: Jefferson, Shelby fail to meet new EPA ozone guidelines
“They've been using weather as a crutch”