The Kentucky Public Service Commission just approved construction of a new coal ash pond at the Trimble County power plant, which supplies electricity to both Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. I told you yesterday about the controversy and the risks.
The PSC, cutely, refers to the ash pond as “a new ash landfill” – ha.
KU will spend $34 million on the project and LG&E will spend $37 million.
7 responses so far ↓
1 EdenSprings // Dec 23, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Does that make today Ash Wednesday?
2 jake // Dec 23, 2009 at 4:46 pm
HA!
3 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Dec 23, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Does Trimble County have a River Fields? They sure could use one about now!
4 G-townReader // Dec 23, 2009 at 11:05 pm
May I edit this story?
“KU CUSTOMERS will spend $34 million on the project and LG&E CUSTOMERS will spend $37 million.”
I sense another impending rate increase.
5 jake // Dec 23, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Impending?
It’s already approved!
6 j bruce miller // Dec 25, 2009 at 9:26 am
When I was County Attorney, things like this out of the PSC didn’t happen without an extensive legal battle. We fought the Trimble County power plant from 1976-1994 and eventually won a $169m judgment against LGE for the ratepayers, that was battled for another half dozen years resulting in an eventual $120m+ refund for the ratepayers. It doesn’t have to be this way, but to prevent the utility from over-stepping its bounds — somebody’s got to get off their butt and work for the public . The problem is that the 3 members of the PSC generally speaking don’t know any more about utility regulation than my pug dogs know about space travel. That’s true in this instance, too — its chairman is David Armstrong. “nough said.”
7 jake // Dec 25, 2009 at 11:28 am
What really gets me is that the ED is but a former spokesperson and a guy with zero knowledge of, you know, anything relating to the PSC. Not a bad guy but certainly in the wrong job.
You can thank Steve Beshear for that. And for his recent appointment of Borders to the PSC, an absolutely flustercuck.
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