Entergy's proposed gas plant: All the information, at your fingertips

Entergy New Orleans wants to you to pay over $210 million dollars over the next 30 years to build a natural gas plant in Michoud. These are the facts, stated by Entergy employees, including the CEO, Charles Rice.

Entergy's CT Gas plant will:

• Create ONLY 13 permanent jobs. Jobs are great, but shouldn't New Orleanians get more than 13 for over $210 million dollars?
• Be paid for ENTIRELY by ratepayers (everyone with energy bills in New Orleans), Entergy doesn't pay a single cent.
• Guarantee Entergy more than 11% return on equity, meaning however much the plant costs, we pay an additional 11% of that directly to Entergy as profit.
  • That's $24 million in profits based on the $216 million price tag for its original plans (Times Picayune article).
• Add to the subsidence of New Orleans, making everyone more susceptible to larger and more frequent flooding
• Release toxic pollution into the air New Orleanians breathe
• Only be used for 50 hours a YEAR, that's less than 1% of the year

Entergy's CT Gas plant will NOT:

• Keep your lights on! Entergy's own data shows that 98% of all outages since 2011 have been caused by problems with the transmission and distribution system. So putting more power into the grid won't keep your lights on or your AC running, it will just cost you more money.

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Read up!

Groups like the Public Interest Intervenors have submitted expert testimony to provide information the New Orleans City Council and the public.

You can look over Public Testimony regarding Entergy's proposed gas plant on Docket UD-16-02 or below:

Advisors to the City Council

2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph W. Rogers Witness Testimony March 23 2017 Advisor's Recommendations​
2017 11 16 UD-16-02 Advisors Motion to Strike Portions of Dr. Beverly Wright's Testimony and the Memorandum in Support​
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Testimony of Victor M. Prep:
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Victor M. Prep Witness Testimony
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Victor M. Prep Witness Testimony Education and Experience
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Victor M. Prep Witness Testimony Ex. 3

Testimony of Philip J. Movish:
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Philip J. Movish Witness Testimony
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Philip J. Movish Witness Testimony Education and Experience
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Philip J. Movish Witness Testimony Ex. 3
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Philip J. Movish Witness Testimony Ex. 4
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Philip J. Movish Witness Testimony Ex. 5

Testimony of Joseph W. Rogers:
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph W. Rogers Witness Testimony
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph W. Rogers Witness Testimony Education and Experience
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph W. Rogers Witness Testimony Ex. 3

Testimony of Joseph A. Vumbaco:
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph Vumbaco Testimony
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph Vumbaco Testimony Education and Background
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph Vumbaco Testimony Experience
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph Vumbaco Testimony Exhibit 5
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph Vumbaco Testimony Exhibit 6
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Joseph Vumbaco Testimony Exhibit 7

Testimony of Byron S. Watson:
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Byron S. Watson Witness Testimony
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Byron S. Watson Witness Testimony Education and Experience
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Byron S. Watson Witness Testimony Ex. 3
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Byron S. Watson Witness Testimony Ex. 4
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Byron S. Watson Witness Testimony Ex. 5
2017 11 20 UD-16-02 Advisor's Byron S. Watson Witness Testimony Ex. 6

Air Products and Chemicals

2017 10 16 UD-16-02 APC Additional Testimony & Exhibits of Maurice Brubaker PUBLIC
2017 01 06 UD-16-02 Air Products and Chemicals Testimony of Maurice Brubaker​
2017 01 06 UD-16-02 Air Products and Chemicals Testimony of James R. Dauphinais

Entergy New Orleans, Inc.
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2017 11 30 UD-16-02 ENO Rebuttal Testimony​
2017 07 26 UD-16-02 Entergy NOPS Supplemental App Overview
2017 07 06 ENO Supplemental and Amending Application for NOPS- PUBLIC
2016 08 10 UD-16-02 Entergy Part 70 Minor Permit Modification - 6th Additional Info Document No 10304933
2016 06 20 UD-16-02 ENO CT Application Public, Final
2016 06 20 UD-16-02 ENO NOPS Cureington Testimony​

Public Interest Intervenors (Alliance for Affordable Energy, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and Sierra Club)

2017 11 27 UD-16-02 PII Memorandum in Opposition to Advisors' Motion to Strike Portions of Dr. Wright's Supplemental Testimony​

2017 10 16:
Cover letter: Synopsis of all testimony
Robert Fagan: Economic realities of energy marketplace
Dr. Elizabeth Stanton: Realistic energy needs, alternative options, and climate policy
Peter Lanzalotta: Transmission concerns and solutions
Dr. Beverly Wright: Environmental Justice concerns with the siting of proposed plants
Philip Henderson: Competitive Solicitation and associated cost and policy benefits
Dr. George Thurston: Air pollution and health risks from fossil fuel power plants + supplemental testimony
Dr. Alexander Kolker: Subsidence and related risks from groundwater extraction

2017 01 06 UD-16-02 Public Interest Intervenors Dr. Alexander S. Kolker Testimony
2017 01 06 UD-16-02 Public Interest Intervenors Dr. Beverly Wright Testimony​ + Exhibits
2017 01 06 UD-16-02 Public Interest Intervenors Dr. George Thurston Testimony
2017 01 06 UD-16-02 Public Interest Intervenors Patrick W. Luckow Testimony
2017 01 05 UD-16-02 Public Interest Intervenors AAE, DSCEJ, Sierra Club testimonies