I met Skip Stiles (featured in the below story) at a 2014 conference in Charlotte. Skip heads up Wetlands Watch in Virginia. He and I were making presentations on sea level rise. Skip told me that his efforts in Norfolk to get the business community to start planning for rising seas wasn’t getting much traction. […]
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Lexington County Chronicle September 1, 2016 By Jerry Bellune State utility law critics won’t wait for lawmakers to return to the Statehouse. They are already preparing to champion changes in state law that they say: • Gave S.C. Electric & Gas and other utilities a license to gouge their customers. • Requires no accountability for
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The State September 2, 2016 By Roddie Burris SCE&G reached a proposed settlement agreement Thursday with state regulators and several parties contesting a proposed change in the construction contract at the V.C Summer Nuclear Station in Fairfield County, the utility said. Under the proposed settlement, which must be approved by the South Carolina Public Service
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Statement of Frank Knapp, September 1, 2016 Today a settlement has been filed with the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) in regard to SCE&G’s request that $852 million additional costs for the construction of two nuclear plants at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Fairfield County be approved. As a personal intervenor in this
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The Lexington County Chronicle August 25, 2016 By Jerry Bellune An audit of S.C. Electric & Gas fails to show how cost overruns hurt customers. That’s the contention of members of the Stop the Blank Check Coalition. It’s why they want an independent analysis of what SCE&G’s rate hikes under a state law are doing
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Lexington County Chronicle August 18, 2016 By Jerry Bellune State lawmakers are prohibited from involvement after rate hikes are filed. But state Rep. Todd Atwater, R-Lexington, says there are issues he can talk about. “Our citizens deserve better than this,” he said about S.C. Electric & Gas’s $1.1 billion rate increases for nuclear construction overruns.
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Lexington County Chronicle August 18, 2016 By Jerry Bellune S.C. Electric & Gas foes of nuclear rate hikes want to do the improbable. Change a state law. The Stop the Blank Check Coalition will ask lawmakers to rewrite a state law that allows power companies to charge customers excessive rates to finance nuclear plant construction.
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If you own commercial property and are responsible for paying utility bills from SCE&G, you need to read the story below about Pecknel Music. The Columbia business took advantage of SCE&G’s program to help small businesses with better quality and more efficient lighting while receiving a very generous subsidy from the company. I took advantage
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Lexington County Chronicle August 11, 2016 By Jerry Bellune S.C. Electric & Gas customers aren’t the only ones facing nuclear rate hikes. The Stop the Blank Check Coalition has warned that Duke Energy customers are next in line for significant rate increases. Coalition officials said their efforts to amend the state’s controversial Base Load Review
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STOP THE BLANK CHECK Making utilities accountable to the people they serve Press Release From: Coalition to STOP THE BLANK CHECK Date: August 8, 2016 Contact: Mandy Bidinger, 803-252-5733, amanda@scsbc.org Frank Knapp Jr., South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, 803-252-5733 (o), (803) 600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Lynn Teague, League of Women Voters, (803) 556-9802, teague_l@bellsouth.net Ben
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