Mississippi Issues

FROM THE CLIMATE INVESTIGATIONS CENTER: AS TIME RUNS OUT FOR SOUTHERN COMPANY, A BRAIN DRAIN BEGINS AT KEMPER

Posted by DAN ZEGART (CIC)/March 15, 2017
With the Kemper power plant officially scheduled to go on-line imminently according to builder Southern Company, a group of key engineers and managers who work on the plant's so-far-inoperable gasifier has left the company.
Earlier this month, Southern Company posted a cluster of want ads on its web site for a "gasification owner," a "refinery technician-mechanic," a "refinery technician-entry level," and a "gasification technician."

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NO, IT WAS NOT AN MPCO "BUSINESS DECISION" TO DE-COAL PLANT WATSON

READ ALL ABOUT IT!
How a Big Coal Blunder Gave Mississippi a Chance for Cleaner Air
(from Yes! Magazine)

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POINT-COUNTERPOINT: EPA POLICY'S IMPACT

FROM THE CLARION LEDGER
AUGUST 15, 2015
The Clarion-Ledger invited Ron Aldridge, Mississippi state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, and Louie Miller, state director of the Mississippi chapter of the Sierra Club, to provide their thoughts on this week’s Point/Counterpoint question.

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LETTER TO THE SUN HERALD: RENEWABLE ENERGY IS THE KEY TO OUR FUTURE

FROM THE SUN HERALD LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PAGE
BY LOUIE MILLER,
STATE DIRECTOR, MISSISSIPPI SIERRA CLUB
Right now, our Public Service Commission is deciding on Mississippi's energy future. If the commission moves forward with its proposed rooftop solar or "net-metering" program, our neighborhoods could power our homes, boost our economy and provide us with energy independence. READ MORE

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STATE DIRECTOR LOUIE MILLER: OUR BEST CHANCE TO BRING SOLAR TO MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi is one of only six states with no net metering policy! Tell the PSC to adopt strong pro-solar policies like net metering. We need to add your voice to the list of public supporters of this crucial step toward a clean energy future for our state. Send in your comment now!

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AFTER OIL SPILL, GULF SEAFOOD INDUSTRY IS RECOVERING

FROM MARKETPLACE
by Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Thursday, April 9, 2015
You think a seafood dock smells bad? Try walking in to the New Orleans Fish House. More than a dozen workers in white aprons and knee-high rubber boots feverishly sharpen knives to clean puppy drum and hand-cut tuna steaks.
Michael Ketchum is director for national retail sales at the Fish House. He convinces grocery stores and restaurants that Gulf seafood is the way to go.
"We supply almost every restaurant in the city: We supply Acme Oyster House, Commander's Palace, Emeril's, the Brennans' restaurants. We're running 300 to 500 deliveries a day." READ MORE

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SOLAR OFFERING MISSISSIPPI DIVERSIFIED ENERGY

SPECIAL FROM THE CLARION LEDGER
BY CHARLIE MITCHELL
April 14, 2015
OXFORD – Among Mississippi’s abundant blessings — and the state is abundantly blessed — is sunshine. The Magnolia State has great soil, lush forests, abundant wildlife and delicious fresh food from gardens, lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.

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BLANTON: MISSISSIPPI POWER GAVE SUPREME COURT NO LEGAL BASIS TO REVERSE REFUND

BY PAUL HAMPTON/SUN HERALD
Hattiesburg oilman Tom Blanton on Thursday filed his latest response in a long-running battle with Mississippi Power over its 2013 rate increase. "There is no legal or factual basis for the Court to reverse its position and rule in Mississippi Power Company's favor," the response begins. "The majority and concurring opinions issued by the Court on February 12, 2015, are cogent, tightly considered opinions."

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NEW YORK JUST SHOWED EVERY OTHER STATE HOW TO DO SOLAR RIGHT

"This is as exciting as the Public Service Commission gets." NRDC attorney Raya Salter
— From Mother Jones, Article by Tim McDonnell
New York wants to get serious about solar power. The state has a goal to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, and it's already among the nation's solar leaders. New York ranks ninth overall for total installed solar, and in 2013 alone it added enough to power more than 10,000 homes.

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NAOMI KLEIN: THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

NAOMI KLEIN

Author Naomi Klein has become the best-known voice of an idea that few mainstream green groups dare to embrace: that the only way to stop climate change is to overhaul the "savagely unjust" free market engine that drives it. In her latest book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2014), Klein argues with passion and scholastic rigor that "our economic system and our planetary system are now at war."
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