Coastal Review Online January 18, 2019 by Staff Report CHARLESTON, S.C. – A federal judge here ruled Friday that work to issue permits for offshore seismic exploration for oil and natural gas cannot continue until the partial federal government shutdown ends. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, in his ruling on…
SC court rules permits can’t go out for seismic testing offshore
Post and Courier January 18, 2019 By Bo Petersen Work can’t go forward on issuing permits for offshore seismic testing until the federal shutdown ends, a federal judge in Charleston ruled Friday. The ruling came in response to a motion filed by several conservation, municipal and business interests opposing the…
Judge blocks Trump administration from processing permits for offshore seismic tests
The State St. Augustine Record January 18, 2019 By Stuart Leavenworth WASHINGTON A federal judge in South Carolina on Friday blocked the Trump administration from processing seismic testing permits for offshore oil drilling, a setback for the administration’s efforts to assist energy companies during the partial government shutdown. U.S. District…
SC leaders learn how utility deregulation works in other states
South Carolina Radio Network January 17, 2019 By Renee Sexton A group of utility leaders, state agency representatives and political leaders learned Wednesday how energy deregulation has worked in other states. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce hosted a public educational forum Thursday with utility and economic experts to…
Forum explores options to decrease utility rates
WACH-TV January 16, 2019 by Shante Sumpter COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) – The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce is starting the discussion to decrease utility rates. The group hosted a forum to see how a deregulated utility market might look and serve ratepayers. Organizers say the market is undergoing…
Spate of Fed, State Bills Would Block Drilling
Coastal Review January 11, 2019 By Mark Hibbs WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Trump administration continues its push to open more U.S. coastal waters to offshore drilling, House Democrats introduced this week a barrage of bills that together would block new drilling for oil and natural gas on nearly all…
Regulators let SCE&G off for deceit, cover-ups, they say
Lexington County Chronicle January 10, 2019 By Jerry Bellune A state watchdog and other critics want regulators to reverse a nuclear ruling. The SC Office of Regulatory Staff, environmentalist groups Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club and the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce contend the Public Service…
Beaufort mayor is happy attorney general joined federal lawsuit against seismic testing
WTGS Fox28 January 10, 2019 Video By Caitlyn Penter BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTGS FOX 28) — On Monday, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson announced he would be adding his name to a federal lawsuit against seismic testing off the South Carolina coast. The lawsuit now includes 16 S.C. cities, the South Carolina…
How the partial federal government shutdown affects small businesses
MultiBriefs January 9, 2019 By Seth Sandronsky On the 2016 campaign trail, President Trump vowed that Mexico would pay for a wall on its border with the U.S. from California east to Texas. That was then, and this is now: day 19 of a partial federal government shutdown. As Trump…
SCE&G ratepayers should hope that PSC corrects the errors in their order
The State January 9, 2019 BY FRANK KNAPP JR. GUEST COLUMNIST I and other intervening parties were disappointed in the results of the S.C. Public Service Commission (PSC) hearing on SCE&G’s failed nuclear project and Dominion Energy. In its Dec. 21 order, the PSC allowed SCE&G to recover $2.3 billion…