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Kemper - the math doesn't work
By all accounts Kemper will be the most expensive facility ever built in the state of Mississippi. It is the outrageous price tag that has most Mississippians wondering. How did it get so high? How...
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Price per kilowatt of Kemper plant stretches credulity
Kemper will be built. Whether it can operate as designed is doubtful. Regardless, the full $5,000,000,000 cost of Kemper should be paid by Southern's 500,000 shareholders, not Mississippi's 186,000...
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Curran letters to JobKeeper and PACE
The following letters -- to Patrick Cagle of JobKeeper and Lance Brown of PACE -- were e-mailed by Eddie Curran on Sept. 27. Many of the questions in his letters relate to Alabama matters that may be...
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Eddie Curran's take on Bigger Pie, JobKeeper, and PACE
Close followers of Mississippi politics are probably aware of a public relations war between two non-profits, one from your state, the other from Alabama, and regarding Mississippi Power's Kemper coal...
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Yogi on Kemper
Kemper will likely be the most expensive coal plant ever built both in total dollars and in cost per MW. It will probably also be the last coal plant every built - until the EPA is reformed or...
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An Imprudent Decision
Kemper: A political decision in 2006, an imprudent 2010 PSC decision based on guesses by Southern/MPC, extremely slow acknowledgement of actual plant costs, an extremely imprudent 2012 new PSC...
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Kemper plant is a lot like Obamacare
Obamacare and Mississippi Power's Kemper lignite plant have a lot in common. Both are unworkable government solutions to manageable problems. Both have undesirable consequences. Obamacare is...
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Despite stocks, PERS deficit keeps climbing
The Market returned, PERS got more money, and yet the funding level for PERS still dropped. PERS released the annual actuarial report for several retirement systems it manages last month. PERS enjoyed...
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PEER, auditor vindicate Bigger Pie
Mark Twain advised: "Never argue with an idiot. He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience," and "Don't interrupt a fool when he's making your point." We have taken his advice....
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Another one bites the dust
Kior, a state funded green energy project, recently announced the shutdown of its Columbus Mississippi plant. It was supposed to produce gasoline and diesel from pine trees. This is the sixth state...
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