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Tag Archives: Duke Energy
Billions At Stake: Should We Invest In Struggling Power Plants Or Communities Facing Closures?
August 23, 2018 – by Sonia Aggarwal in Forbes. Editor’s note: Coal-fired power plants in the Tri-State are experiencing similar issues in that they cannot compete in the marketplace of producing electricity due to a variety of economic and physical factors. None are less … Continue reading
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Tagged AEP, Big Rivers, Coal, Duke Energy, Indiana coal, IPL, Kentucky coal, nuclear, obsolete coal plants, TVA, Vectren
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UPDATE: Bucolic Indiana town to become mega industrial center
August 22, 2019 – by John Blair, Valley Watch president and editor of valleywatch.net The State of Indiana did issue an air pollution and construction permit for the facility in the Spring. Valley Watch and Southwestern Indiana Citizens for Quality of … Continue reading
IEEFA update: Duke Energy’s costly Edwardsport coal-gasification project continues to underperform
August 1, 2018-by David Schlissel in IEEFA News Editor’s Note: Valley Watch has steadfastly opposed this plant since it’s conception offering sage testimony at the original CPCN hearing in Bloomington in 2007. Duke Energy’s 5-year-old gasified coal power experiment in Edwardsport, Ind., has turned … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal, Coal gasification, Duke Energy, IEEFA, Indiana ratepayers
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Clean Coal is elusive and very expensive
March 1, 2017 – by David Schlissel, IEEFA. Editor’s note: Valley Watch and our colleagues, Citizens Action Coalition and Sierra Club have challenged the Edwardsport plant since 2006 before the IURC and IDEM. Sadly, we failed to stop the plant. David Schlissel … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizens Action Coalition, clean coal, Duke Energy, IGCC, Indiana, Kemper, Ratepayers, Valley Watch
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Tremendous victory for CAC and the State
May 8, 2015 – Press Release from Citizens Action Coalition For immediate release – May 8, 2015 Contact: Kerwin Olson kolson@citact.org Jennifer Washburn jwashburn@citact.org INDIANAPOLIS – Today the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission denied Duke Energy Indiana’s request for nearly $1.9B from captive … Continue reading
Edwardsport “performance” substantially misses Duke’s promises
April 13, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor “Fiasco” is really the only way to describe the whole situation with Duke Energy’s ill fated coal gasification plant at Edwardsport, IN. First the plant was promised to cost $1.2 billion … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal gasification, Cost overruns, Duke Energy, Edwardsport, fiasco, IGCC, Valley Watch
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Duke Energy spills from 5,000 to 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the Ohio River near Cincinnati
August 19, 2014 – UPDATE- USEPA serving as on-scene coordinator in Emergency Response to Ohio River Spill The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is serving as the Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the emergency response to an oil spill that occurred last … Continue reading
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Tagged Cincinnati, Duke Energy, Evansville, Ohio River spill, USEPA, water pollution
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Valley Watch joins Sierra Club in challenge of Indiana Gasification permit extension
January 14, 2014- by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Valley Watch has joined with the Sierra Club in filing a challenge of the recently extended permit for the proposed Indiana Gasification facility in Rockport. Valley Watch feels strongly that IDEM did not … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal gasification, Duke Energy, Indiana, Indiana Gasification, Mitch Daniels, pollution, Valley Watch
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Alternative Uses for Coal Stuck in Neutral-Natural Gas is just too cheap
March 28, 2012-By Ken Silverstein in EnergyBiz Applying new technologies is admirable. But sticking businesses with huge bills to pay that progress is not. That’s what Exelon and other critics are saying about a proposed plant to convert coal to … Continue reading
Former IURC Chairman INDICTED on ethics raps involving Duke Edwardsport
December 12, 2011-by John Russell in the Indianapolis Star The former chairman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has been indicted on a three felony counts of official misconduct in cases concerning Duke Energy Corp. A Marion County grand jury today issued … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate corruption, Duke Energy, Indiana Government, IURC, Mitch Daniels
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New IURC Chair also had a really cozy relationship with Duke Energy execs according to emails
August 11, 2011-by John Russell in the Indianapolis Star Indiana’s top utility regulator sent a private email last year to a top executive at Duke Energy Corp., recommending “confidentially, just between you and me” that the utility hire his personal choice as … Continue reading
Duke ignored water issue at Indiana plant, consultant says
July 29, 2011-by Chris O’Malley in the Indiana Business Journal Regulatory filings alleging Duke Energy Corp. grossly mismanaged construction of its Edwardsport plant contend the utility ignored warnings for seven months over potential problems with federal regulators if it disposed … Continue reading
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Tagged Cost overruns, Duke Energy, Edwardsport, IURC, mismanagement, Mitch Daniels
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NRDC report: Indiana among nation’s worst power plant polluters
July 22, 2001 -by Linda Greene in the Bloomington Alternative. Indiana is the sixth worst state in the production of toxic industrial air pollution, surpassed by only Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Kentucky and Maryland. The assessment was made by the National … Continue reading
Is the sun setting on “clean” coal
Carbon Capture and Sequestration might soon be nothing more than a relic in a “might have been” history book. July 17, 2011-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Most people who have studied the issue easily understand that coal is not clean … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Coal, Duke Energy, Edwardsport, IGCC, Indiana coal, IURC, Valley Watch
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