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FPL, Turkey Point, Not the Boogeyman

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Keven Doyle, CEA Florida Executive Director, discusses how nuclear power is an importance part of Florida’s clean, carbon-free energy mix.

Anti-nuclear-power groups will use any excuse to undermine the broad public support for clean and safe nuclear energy. Recent events at Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point plant in Homestead show how desperate these groups have become. FPL has been transparent about the issues associated with Turkey Point’s cooling canals and what the company is doing proactively to resolve them. State and federal regulators confirm that Turkey Point is safe, that no animal or plant life in the area has been adversely impacted, and that water-quality levels in the canals and in Biscayne Bay are well within the standards of the Clean Water Act.

Read more – Palm Beach Post

Fact Over Fiction On Atlantic Offshore Energy

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David Holt was featured on Townhall discussing the importance of Atlantic energy exploration and sets the record straight on misleading claims by anti-development activists.

President Obama said last year that he would rather the U.S. “with all the safeguards and standards that we have, be producing our oil and gas, rather than importing it, which is bad for our people” and “potentially purchased from places that have much lower environmental standards than we do.” Except, it now seems, in resource-rich federal waters in the Atlantic Ocean.

Read more – Townhall

CEA Statement on Governor Walker’s Repeal of Wisconsin’s Nuclear Moratorium

Today, Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) President David Holt issued the following statement in response to Governor Scott Walker signing AB 384 into law, a bill that ends Wisconsin’s 33-year moratorium on new nuclear energy projects:

“CEA applauds Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for signing AB 384 into law.  This bipartisan bill removes the illogical ban on new nuclear power construction that has been in place for far too long.  Consumers need as many power generation options as possible and this law simply allows clean, emissions-free nuclear power to be considered by state policymakers when planning Wisconsin’s energy future.

CEA commends the legislature and Governor Walker for taking this common-sense approach to addressing the needs of consumers, businesses, and energy-intensive manufacturers across the state.”

Farmers Need Consistently Affordable Energy

CEA Midwest Executive Director Chris Ventura discusses the importance of energy to today’s family farmer.

More than 75,000 Ohio farmers help bring food to our tables and employ countless Ohioans at their family-owned and operated farms, making agriculture Ohio’s number one industry. Yet as any farmer could explain, there are many expenses that go into running a farm and ensuring profitability in order to continue Ohio’s rich agricultural heritage. Some of the expenses farmers have to account for include taxes, farm implements, hiring and training labor, feed, seed, livestock, fertilizer, and pesticides. Additionally, a recent study by the Ohio Grange places energy costs at the top of the list of expenses farmers need to be concerned about.

Read more – Newark Advocate

Keep Western Energy Strong!

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New BLM rules would kill energy production in western states, damage local economies, and hurt our future energy security!

[bq]Tell BLM No![/bq]

The rule would impose millions of dollars in new costs for energy companies already struggling with low oil and natural gas prices. The result? Thousands of wells will be “shut-in” resulting in more layoffs, lower tax receipts and sinking economies.

Already in Farmington, NM the local school district has lost $4 million in funding and will have to potentially lay off 50 staff members!

Don’t let BLM impose new rules, right at the time our communities are the most vulnerable.

Your information will be included with this letter and submitted to the Federal docket.

Misinformation About Nuclear Plant Thriving

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CEA’s Kevin Doyle addresses misinformation spread by anti-nuclear activists who want to shut down America’s primary source of clean, carbon-free energy.

Anti-nuclear power groups will use any excuse to undermine the broad public support for clean and safe nuclear energy. Recent events at FPL’s Turkey Point plant in Homestead show how desperate these groups have become. FPL has been transparent about the current issues associated with Turkey Point’s cooling canals and what they are doing to resolve them.

Read more – Sun-Sentinel

Decision Clears the Path for Clean Line Project

Sequoyah County Times talked about CEA’s support of transmission line infrastructure to bring clean, renewable energy from wind farms to consumers.

An unprecedented decision by the U.S. Department of Energy has cleared the way for the Plains & Eastern Clean Line Energy project to move forward in their efforts to construct a 720-mile overhead direct current transmission line from the Oklahoma panhandle to an end point in Tennessee. Consumer Energy Alliance approves the DOE’s decision to partner with Clean Line Energy.

Read more – Sequoyah County Times

The Energy Makers Show: Episode 232

CEA’s David Holt appeared on The Energy Makers Show to discuss how consumers are impacted by the cost of energy.

Barbara Brandl Denson visits with David Holt, President of Consumer Energy Alliance, the 10-year-old organization founded on the premise that energy impacts our entire economy, and therefore energy consumers need a voice at the table and a fair-minded overseer of all categories of debate in energy.

Read more – The Energy Makers Show

CEA Applauds DOE Decision to Support Clean Line’s Plains and Eastern Project

Power Generating WindmillsToday Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) applauds the Department of Energy’s (DOE) decision to partner with Clean Line Energy Partners on the Plains and Eastern Project. The decision will streamline and accelerate the process to allow construction to commence as early as 2017. This $2.5 billion dollar infrastructure project, which will span more than 700 miles, will transmit 4,000 MW of electricity – enough to power more than 1.5 million homes – from wind farms in the sparsely populated Oklahoma panhandle to consumers in population centers in Arkansas, Tennessee and other states in the Mid-South and Southeast.

“Energy consumers expect affordable and reliable electricity. New infrastructure projects, including transmission lines and pipelines are necessary to bring energy to consumers,” said David Holt, President of CEA. “Plains and Eastern will do just that. It’s unfortunate that this project has become the subject of a partisan debate. Nonetheless, allowing this project to move forward is what is best for consumers.”

In its summary of findings the DOE found that “the project as proposed will serve the public interest by facilitating renewable energy development, stimulating economic development, generating revenues for needed public investment, and doing so while minimizing impacts to landowners and the natural environment.”

“The Department of Energy’s decision shows that great things are happening in America today. The Plains & Eastern Clean Line is the largest clean energy infrastructure project in the nation and will modernize the U.S. electric grid while bringing forth new investment, job creation, and more low-cost power for American consumers,” said Michael Skelly, President of Clean Line Energy.

Loss of Drilling, Titan Leaves Cape Fear’s Industrial Future Open-ended

CEA Executive Vice President Michael Whatley discusses the loss of jobs and income that results from banning offshore energy exploration.

Pro-drilling groups have lambasted the offshore drilling reversal as a job-killer, especially from Virginia to Georgia where the federal government estimated 8 or 9 billion barrels of oil and natural gas could be sitting offshore. “You’re really prematurely taking this area off the table, because if the president had included the Atlantic in this decision there still was going to be several years down the road where that could have been reversed,” said Michael Whatley, executive vice president of the Consumer Energy Alliance. “These are high-paying jobs; these are good jobs that are all based out of the port cities.”

Read more – StarNews Online

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