February 17, 2019 Senate subcommittee votes Wednesday Feb.20th at 12:30PM This Wednesday a Senate subcommittee will hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 110, a bill that would allow utilities to issue low-interest bonds in a process called “securitization”, a process not currently legal in the state. This financing tool…
(From Beaufort, SC, Mayor Billy Keyserling’s Newsletter) 16 SC Cities and Towns, of which Beaufort was the first to sign up, are in Federal District Court in Charleston opposing permits issued to allow seismic testing. The Cities and Towns are joined in the suit by hundreds of small businesses, led…
Federal tax reform hurriedly pushed through Congress in late 2017 and signed into law in December of that year was to give every American family a $4000 pay raise by cutting their taxes. Remember that? To anyone who was really paying attention to what was in the new law, that…
Yesterday the House Public Utilities Subcommittee received a new draft of H.3659, the “South Carolina Energy Freedom Act”. The Subcommittee decided to finish the new language in the draft and hopes to vote it out next week and have it immediately taken up by the full LCI Committee also next…
Today Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a resolution in the US Senate and House in support of a Green New Deal. You can read the resolution here.
The below letter was delivered to all the members of the Public Utilities subcommittee regarding support for H.3659, the “South Carolina Energy Freedom Act” February 6, 2019 Re: H.3659, South Carolina Energy Freedom Act Dear Representative, The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce strongly encourages your support of H.3659,…
Legislative subcommittee votes tomorrow at 9 Tomorrow (Feb. 7) at 9AM a legislative subcommittee holds a hearing on H.3659, the “South Carolina Energy Freedom Act”. Below are the legislators you should contact to support solar energy and energy efficiency in our state. H.3659 would protect the rights of customers—residential and…
In 2012 BP bid $1 billion for the oil exploration rights off Canada’s Nova Scotia. It was estimated that the Nova Scotia basin held up to 121 trillion cubic feet of gas and 8 billion barrels of oil. On its website, BP brags about its oil development expertise. “Exploring offshore…
SC Business Reasons for Opposing Offshore Oil Drilling/Seismic Testing When you drill, you spill. The federal government admits that oil spills are inevitable predicting one spill a year for every 1,000 barrels of oil produced. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management reports 2,440 oil spills in the Gulf between 1964-2015…
By Jerry Ellig January 28, 2019 Retail electric competition has recently become a hot issue in an unexpected place: South Carolina, where I currently live. Two of the state’s major utilities – investor-owned SCE&G (recently purchased by Dominion Energy) and state-owned Santee Cooper – spent $9 billion on a nuclear…