Tag Archives: LG&E

LG&E, KU to switch to natural gas? Not if the Kentucky Coal Association can help it.

According to an article in The Courier-Journal, the answer is “don’t hold your breath.” Three Kentucky coal-fired plants operated by the PPL-owned utilities are slated to convert to natural gas within five years, including LG&E’s Cane Run Road plant, which currently spews over 4.5 million pounds of climate-change-causing, human life-imparing chemicals into the atmosphere annually. [...]

Mitch McConnell wants you to drink mercury and breathe sulfur dioxide to “create new jobs”

While much of the mainstream media has been slobbering over Sen. Rand Paul’s Fake-Presidential Campaign & Book-Hawking Tour 2011, his reptoid counterpart in the senate, Mitch McConnell, has been working tirelessly to pass amendments to the Clean Air Act in order to make the air we breathe dirtier, more dangerous and more akin to his [...]

Clean air rally to protest LG&E emissions

Despite Louisville Gas & Electric’s ongoing PR campaign to greenwash itself into an environmentally conscious entity, the people who are forced to live next door to the power monopoly’s mercury-coughing Cane Run Road coal-fired power plant (and accompanying toxic coal ash pond) aren’t convinced. So this Thursday, they’re partnering with the Sierra Club to rally [...]

Kentucky ranked 6th for worst mercury pollution in America, spurs new “coal justice” blog

A new report by Environment America reveals that Kentucky’s coal-fired power plants emitted 5,930 pounds of mercury in 2009, placing the commonwealth as the 6th worst emitter of toxic mercury in the nation right behind Indiana (ranked 5th), which spewed 6,046 pounds during the same year. Titled “Dirty Energy’s Assault on Our Health: Mercury,” (Warning: [...]

PPL purchase of LG&E, KU complete

The Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp. officially took control of the Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities yesterday, after acquiring the two utility companies from E.ON U.S. for $7.6 billion. The deal won’t have any immediate impact on local customers and no employee cuts will be made. After months of deliberation, the sale was approved [...]

LG&E coal ash pond expansion hearing tonight

Tonight at 6:00 p.m., Conway Middle School will host another public forum concerning Louisville Gas & Electric’s bid to expand its coal ash storage pond — which contains hazardous byproducts generated by the combustion of coal — in Louisville’s chemically afflicted Rubbertown neighborhood. The administrative portion of LG&E’s application has been accepted, and tonight’s hearing [...]

Public Service Commission approves sale of LG&E to polluting PPL

After months of deliberation and review, the Kentucky Public Service Commission has finally approved the sale of E-ON US (owner of Louisville Gas & Electric and sister company Kentucky Utilities) to Pennsylvania Power & Light (PPL) for $7.625 billion. Here are the goods from a KPSC press release: In an order issued today, the PSC [...]

Public comments for LG&E ash pond due today

Unless you like the idea of Louisville Gas & Electric adding a few million cubic yards of coal ash to your fair and beloved River City, take a few moments out of your oh-so-busy Friday to send an email to Jeff Pratt, Acting Branch Manager for the Kentucky Division of Solid Waste, and tell him [...]

PSC denies Conway’s request to dismiss LG&E and KU rate hikes

The Kentucky Public Service Commission denied a request made by Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway to halt consideration of rate increases being sought by Louisville Gas & Electric Co. and its sister company, Kentucky Utilities. The commission’s ruling means that today’s hearing in the rate cases will proceed as scheduled. Last week, the attorney general [...]

Conway files motion to dismiss LG&E and KU rate hikes

Attorney General Jack Conway has filed a motion to dismiss the pending rate increase requests made by Louisville Gas and Electric and its sister company Kentucky Utilities, because the utilities are being sold. Earlier this year, the German-based E.On AG announced it was selling the utility companies to Allentown, Pa.-based PPL Corporation in a deal [...]