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Submit comments before the DEQ meeting on the air permit for the Magnolia Power Gas Plant!

1/29/2022

Submit comments! The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) just held a hearing on the air permit for the Magnolia Power Gas Plant.

Don't miss this opportunity to make your voice heard. This proposed plant is yet another polluting facility in an area already inundated with large industry facilities.

Comments are due by 4:30pm (CT) on Monday, January 31st.

The proposed fracked gas power plant threatens the health of nearby communities and contradicts the climate goals of Governor Edwards because it will release more than 2.5 million tons of greenhouse gases every year.

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Join us at the Louisiana Public Service Commission Meeting tomorrow!

1/24/2022

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Livestream the meeting via the LPSC's Youtube Channel.

On the agenda:

The Commissioners will be electing a Commissioner to serve as Chair for 2022 as well as electing a Commissioner to represent the LPSC at MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) & SPP (Southwest Power Pool).

U-35927 on Electric Cooperatives Purchase Power Agreements: Possible vote on Final Recommendation of the ALJ and Draft Order.

This will establish were LA's cooperative utilities will get their power through a long-term contract. Business as usual with Cleco Cajun's inefficient fossil fuel powered plants or from a new portfolio with Magnolia Power which includes a lot of solar but also a new gas plant.

Learn more about what's going to be discussed tomorrow and why this meeting is definitely one to watch on our FB Live segment Coffee Talk. Join hosts Logan Burke and Jessica Hendricks for a quick rundown on all matters LPSC.

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Home to 4,605 orphan oil and gas wells, Louisiana seeks federal money to plug them

1/20/2022

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Louisiana has lost 23% of its oil and gas jobs in less than two years

Article by Mark Schleifstein
Originally published on Nola.com
January 10, 2022

Louisiana is home to 4,605 orphan oil and gas wells, some of them threatening the environment, and now plans to ask the federal government for an Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act grant to help pay the estimated $401.7 million cost of plugging them.

If all of Louisiana's orphan wells were targeted for plugging, the effort could employ about 1,000 people fulltime for a year, and could reduce methane emissions by 558 metric tons per year, according to a 2020 report by Columbia University and Resources for the Future, a Washington D.C. environmental policy think tank. The methane reduction is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions of more than 3,000 cars.

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Letter to The Advocate: Asking the Right Questions

1/10/2022

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By Jesse George, AAE New Orleans Policy Director

On January 5, The Advocate published a staff editorial on the reliability – or, rather, unreliability – of our state’s electrical grid. While the piece argued its strawman positions vehemently, it certainly was not arguing against any position held by serious advocates of electric utility reform.

The notion that clean energy and resilience advocates want to “eliminate the conventional power grid” is utterly fantastical. We have argued the exact opposite: that Entergy should be investing in the transmission and distribution systems, and that it should stop the stonewalling tactics it has used to constrain transmission of cheap renewable energy to our state, rather than investing in costly projects such as the New Orleans Power Station, which do not perform as promised and do not increase resilience in the wake of tropical storm systems.

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The Watchdog

Submit comments before the DEQ meeting on the air permit for the Magnolia Power Gas Plant!

Join us at the Louisiana Public Service Commission Meeting tomorrow!

Home to 4,605 orphan oil and gas wells, Louisiana seeks federal money to plug them

Letter to The Advocate: Asking the Right Questions

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