City of Columbia to pay $950,000 for Orr Street property
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The Columbia City Council has approved paying $950,000 for two adjacent plots of contaminated land in the North Village district.
The land at 209 St. James St. and 201 Orr St. is the former site of an Ameren Missouri manufactured gas plant. Contaminants remain in soil on the site and an agreement with state regulators stipulates that it cannot be used for residential development.
The Columbia City Council voted 6-1 on Monday to buy the land, with Mayor Brian Treece the lone dissenting vote after expressing concerns about the site.
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Published April 20, 2021 at 3:17 PM CDT Listen • 14:30 Ameren Missouri
Ameren Missouri’s operations include a 400-megawatt High Prairie Renewable Energy Center in northern Missouri. It’s the state’s largest wind facility.
This past September, Ameren Missouri unveiled
a long-range plan that includes a goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions across all its operations by the year 2050.
Shrewsbury resident Andy Knott says that’s not fast enough.
“The climate science really demands that we phase out coal by [2030] as well as gas by 2035 to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis,” Knott, the deputy regional director for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, told
Ameren Earns 2021 Great Place to Work Certification™
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ST. LOUIS, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ For the fifth year in a row, Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) has been Certified™ by Great Place to Work
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The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved a second modified agreement between Union Electric Company d/b/a Ameren Missouri and the Office of the Public Counsel (OPC) which authorizes Ameren Missouri to re-direct approximately $3.5 million to further help low-income customers needing assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the second modified agreement, the $3.5 million, which was originally scheduled to be used for a low-income weatherization program, will now be re-directed as follows: Approximately $1.3 million to fund a low-income energy efficiency program; approximately $1.2 million to fund additional low-income energy assistance in 2021, including but not limited to Ameren Missouri’s Clean Slate Program; and approximately $1 million to fund administrative costs for the agencies charged with administering the distribution of energy assistance funding to low-income customers.