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Show Transcript CHALLENGE IN RECENT WEEKS. 12 NEWS’ KENT WAINSCOTT SPOKE WITH COMPANY EXECUTIVES, AND GIVES US AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK INSIDE THE UTILITY’S OAK CREEK POWER PLANT. WHILE BRUTAL WINTER WEATHER CUT OFF POWER IN TEXAS’ AND OTHER HELD UP TO THE COLD. WE’RE WELL PREPARED BECAUSE OUR EQUIPMENT IS DESIGNED FOR IT. OUR PEOPLE AND THE PROCEDURES WE HAVE ARE SET UP FOR THE HARSHEST CONDITIONS OF WINTER. PATRICK: REPORTER: WE ENERGIES PRESIDENT TOM METCALFE GAVE 12 NEWS A RARE LOOK INSIDE AT THE COMPANY’S MASSIVE OAK CREEK POWER PLANT CAMPUS. HE SAYS THIS SYSTEM HANDLED THE FIVE TIMES THAT WE DIPPED BELOW ZERO IN THE MA
While causing more pollution. And then charges customers for it. By Carl Lindner - Jan 28th, 2021 01:52 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Oak Creek Power Plant and Elm Road Generating Station. Photo by Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch.
Late last year, We Energies‘ well paid, $7-million-a-year executive
Gale Klappaannounced that the older coal burning plant in Oak Creek would be retired in 2024. This decision is hardly cause for celebration.
The older plant had simply become too costly to operate. For years, We Energies could have been saving $75 million annually simply by purchasing energy from the Midwest grid. To save Wisconsin ratepayers this exorbitant annual expense, We Energies could have–and should have–closed this plant long ago. Another four years until it closes means another $300 million over charge for customers. And, even more costly, it means four more years of polluting our air and water. We Energies and WEC (its parent company),
By Carl Lindner - Dec 20th, 2020 08:41 am //end headline wrapper ?>Oak Creek Power Plant and Elm Road Generating Station. Photo by Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch.
Two years ago, almost to the day, a dozen or so members of the Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin gathered in Zeidler Union Square, across from We Energies‘ headquarters. They were there to protest the pollution and health hazards caused by the two large coal burning plants in Oak Creek.
Since 2017 the Coalition has held public events and published numerous op-eds and letters to editors to educate the public about the toxic effects of coal energy. One of these events, a “listening session,” was held at the Oak Creek Public Library in the spring of 2018. About 200 residents and neighbors were there to share and listen to testimony about the blanket of coal dust they had recently discovered on their cars, houses, driveways, and the playground near the plant. Overnight, th
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