by Associated Press Published: April 16,2013
Tags: budget, cooperative, electricity, energy, executive, federal government, lawmaker, legislative, lights, Politics, power, President, sale, sell, utility
NORTH MISSISSIPPI — In a political role reversal, Republicans are blasting President Barack Obama’s plan to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority, an icon of the New Deal long targeted by conservatives as an example of government overreach. Obama’s 2014 budget proposal calls for a strategic review of the TVA, the nation’s largest public utility [...] [...]
JACKSON— Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley is requesting a formal review of Mississippi’s electric utilities’ metering policies and procedures. The Public Utilities Staff will work in conjunction with Commission staff to conduct the review, which will cover both investor owned utilities and electric power associations, according to a release from Presley’s office. Over [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 10,2013
Tags: award, coal, electricity, energy, honor, plant, recognition, rig, rigging, transport, transportation
COLUMBUS — Burkhalter received both Rigging Job of the Year and Hauling Job of the Year awards from the Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association (SCRA) at its annual awards dinner in Scottsdale, Ariz. Rigging Job of the Year was awarded for Burkhalter’s precision rigging, positioning and setting of the new Galveston Causeway Railroad Bridge and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 10,2013
Tags: connection, energy, fee, light, natural gas, power, rate, reguilator, regulation, state agency, utility
JACKSON — Regulators want to look again at an Atmos Energy Corp. plan to raise connection charges and cut rates for natural gas. The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted for more study, with commissioners expressing concerns about raising bills for people who use little natural gas in summer. Dallas-based Atmos wants to raise monthly connection [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 9,2013
Tags: bill, electricity, energy, interest, light, meter, overbill, powerrt, reimbursement, state agency, utility
HERNANDO — Entergy Mississippi is reimbursing Hernando High School $1,230,313.55 for over a decade of high electricity bills, according to Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley. From September 2001 to July 2012, Entergy over billed the school for electricity usage for an amount just under a million dollars, a press release from Presley’s office states. At [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 9,2013
Tags: alternative fuel, energy, fuel, land, plant, property, real estate, REFINERY, sale, sell, site
NATCHEZ — Rentech is asking $8.5 million for the 478 acres in Adams County where it once planned to build an alternative fuels plant to convert coal into liquid. Natchez real estate broker Glenn Green, one of the three listed on the property, tells the Natchez Democrat there has been some offers on the property [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 8,2013
Tags: accident, bench, case, cvacation, death, disaster, ecosystem, environment, explosion, fatality, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, pollution, restaurant, seafood, testimony, tourism, tourist, trail, visitor, wildlife, witness
NEW ORLEANS — BP is scheduled to call its first witness today at a trial designed to determine causes of its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and assign fault to the companies involved in the deadly disaster. Halliburton, BP PLC’s cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling project, rested its case [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 8,2013
Tags: appeal, case, climate, climate change, destruction, flooding, global warming, greenhouse gas, hurricane, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, rain, storm surge, trial, tropical, Weather, wind
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — A federal appeals court has agreed to review a three-judge panel’s ruling that a group of Mississippi coastal landowners can sue energy and chemical companies on allegations that linked greenhouse gas emissions to Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuit alleges that greenhouse gas emissions from energy and chemical companies contributed to global warming, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2013
Tags: attorney, bench, contaminate, contamination, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, hearing, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, oil spill, oilrig, payout, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, settlement, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has rejected BP’s request to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses who claim the company’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money. Before a hearing today, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier already had upheld court-appointed claims administrator Patrick Juneau’s [...] [...]
KEMPER COUNTY — The Southern Co. has withdrawn plans to seek a federal loan guarantee for the power plant its subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. is building in Kemper County. A spokesman for Atlanta-based Southern says Mississippi Power can borrow money elsewhere at a lower rate than available under the loan from the U.S. Department of [...] [...]
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