{"id":3022,"date":"2012-12-11T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:37:27","slug":"edwardsport-white-paper-reveals-mismanagement-and-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"Edwardsport &#8220;White Paper&#8221; reveals mismanagement, and corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Edwardsport-Report1.pdf\">Edwardsport Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 11, 2012 &#8211; by John Blair, <em>valleywatch.net<\/em> editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3033\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daniels-licks-his-chops-at-the-prospect-of-Edwardsport-8-30-07sm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3033\" alt=\"Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels made sure his regulators would force Duke's Indiana customers to take the risk for the Edwardsport plant. Here he is shown making that case before the &quot;Energy Summit of Southwest Indiana&quot; held on August 30, 2007, the day before the IURC held a public hearing on the plant. Photo \u00a9 2007, John Blair\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daniels-licks-his-chops-at-the-prospect-of-Edwardsport-8-30-07sm1.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daniels-licks-his-chops-at-the-prospect-of-Edwardsport-8-30-07sm1.jpg 576w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daniels-licks-his-chops-at-the-prospect-of-Edwardsport-8-30-07sm1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels made sure his regulators would force Duke&#8217;s Indiana customers to take the risk for the Edwardsport plant. Here, he is shown making that case before the &#8220;Energy Summit of Southwest Indiana&#8221; held on August 30, 2007, the day before the IURC held a public hearing on the plant. Photo \u00a9 2007, John Blair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Report published by Valley Watch, Sierra Club, Citizens Action Coalition and Save The Valley is an indictment against Duke Energy and its corruption in building the $3.5 billion Edwardsport Generating Station which has become a nightmare for Duke\u2019s Indiana customers who have been forced to bear the bulk of the risks for the ill fated plant.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3034\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hardy-Declare-we-will-get-this-thing-built-at-SW-Indiana-Energy-Summit-83007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3034\" class=\" wp-image-3034 \" alt=\"David Lott Hardy, center, then Chair of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, declares, &quot;We will get this thing built&quot; at the Energy Summit of Southwest Indiana held August 30, 2007, the day before the public hearing his commission conducted on Edwardsport. Hardy was later indicted on charges stemming from &quot;ethics violations&quot; as a result of his handling of Edwardsport dockets. Photo \u00a9 2007 John Blair\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hardy-Declare-we-will-get-this-thing-built-at-SW-Indiana-Energy-Summit-83007-1024x508.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hardy-Declare-we-will-get-this-thing-built-at-SW-Indiana-Energy-Summit-83007-1024x508.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hardy-Declare-we-will-get-this-thing-built-at-SW-Indiana-Energy-Summit-83007-300x149.jpg 300w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hardy-Declare-we-will-get-this-thing-built-at-SW-Indiana-Energy-Summit-83007.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Lott Hardy, center, then Chair of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, declares, &#8220;We will get this thing built&#8221; at the Energy Summit of Southwest Indiana held August 30, 2007, the day before the public hearing his commission conducted on Edwardsport. Hardy was later indicted on charges stemming from &#8220;ethics violations&#8221; as a result of his handling of Edwardsport dockets. Photo \u00a9 2007 John Blair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Download the report by clicking the link above.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"downloadpdf\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwardsport Report December 11, 2012 &#8211; by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor A Report published by Valley Watch, Sierra Club, Citizens Action Coalition and Save The Valley is an indictment against Duke Energy and its corruption in building the $3.5 billion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}