Monthly Archives: December 2010

December 31, 2010-by Grant Smith, Executive Director of the citizens Action Coalition. (Editor’s note: Valley Watch is a joint intervener with the Citizens Action Coalition in several dockets before the Indiana Utility Regulator Commission). On Dec. 26, The Star published … Continue reading →

December 28, 2010-by Gary Hart, former US Senator  from Colorado in Reader Supported News. It is quite possible that the greatest human challenge in this century will be how or whether we humans can fairly share what belongs to all. … Continue reading →

December 28, 2010-by John Blair valleywatch.net editor-An early videographer, “superfoot 69” just posted a memorable video about the battle to keep the nefarious Ensco Corporation from building a hazardous waste incinerator in Tell City, IN in 1988. Tell City had … Continue reading →

December 28, 2010-by Carol Polsgrove in the Bloomington Alternative –Carol Polsgrove is author of Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement and other books. She can be reached at ccpolsgrove@gmail.com. I remember my first ride on a new four-lane highway … Continue reading →

December 24, 2010-The Louisville Courier Journal Editorial– So many shoes are dropping in the ongoing Duke Energy-Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission scandal that you’d think there was a centipede involved somewhere. The reach of the mess is both micro and macro. … Continue reading →

We wish you the most wonderful of holidays.

December 23, 2010-by Travis Walter Donovan in the Huffington Post– Various conservative Christian leaders have united with the Cornwall Alliance for the release of a shocking new 12-part DVD series, “Resisting The Green Dragon,” that attempts to debase and discredit … Continue reading →

December 23, 2010, by John Russell in the Indianapolis Star-(Editors Note-Valley Watch is one of the intervening groups that will be deposing Turner) In private, James L. Turner, the second-highest-paid executive at Duke Energy Corp., was rarely at a loss … Continue reading →

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects. … Continue reading →

By John Blair, president of Valley Watch, Inc. Evansville, IN, December 10, 2010 – Duke Energy always rewards it creepy disgraced executives it seems. A couple of days ago James L. Turner resigned in disgrace after the Indianapolis Star revealed … Continue reading →

November 28, 2010-By John Russell, in the Indianapolis Star. In dozens of e-mails, obtained by The Indianapolis Star under an open records request, the two men schmoozed and joked over all sorts of personal topics, sometimes trading messages eight or … Continue reading →

November 23, 2010-Indianapolis Star Editorial.Rolling heads at this point may repair some credibility damage, but it leaves unanswered a glaring question about the validity of Duke’s highly controversial and hugely expensive Edwardsport coal gasification plant. The revolving-door scandal that forced … Continue reading →

November 21, 2010-by the Associated Press in the Louisville Courier Journal. A map of Indiana in the report shows hundreds of red dots at river and stream sites across the state where sampling found mercury-contaminated fish. In 2005, coal-fired power … Continue reading →

October 28, 2010-Since costs have gone up on the plant by a whopping $990 million, Valley Watch, Sierra Club, Save the Valley and the Citizens Action Coalition are asking for at least two field hearings so the public can sound … Continue reading →

October 22, 2010-A new report issued yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says, “Record temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and links to some Northern Hemisphere weather support … Continue reading →