Monday, December 21, 2009

Stanly County Board Member Lindsey Dunevant Initiates Monthly Discussions Of Yadkin Project

Lindsey Dunevant, a affiliate of both the Stanly County Board of Commissioners and the N.C. Water Rights Committee, has accomplished a account affairs on radio base 1010 AM WSPC to altercate the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, its aftereffect on Stanly’s baptize assets and added accompanying topics. The base arrive Dunevant as able-bodied as Gene Ellis, licensing and acreage administrator with Alcoa Power Generating Inc. (“Alcoa”), to bear abstracted arguments apropos the issues.

In his aboriginal presentation, Dunevant bidding how he and leaders above the accompaniment favor federal anamnesis with consecutive alteration to the accompaniment of North Carolina for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project. Dunevant argues that because Alcoa has absolute hydroelectric operations on the high Yadkin – and will advance that absolute cachet for addition 50 years if FERC grants a authorization – it will acquiesce Alcoa an arbitrary cartel of North Carolina baptize rights for generations. This blazon of monopoly, according to Dunevant, would acquiesce Alcoa to accomplishment one of the state’s better accustomed assets and acquiesce the bunch association to accomplish ample profits affairs electricity alfresco the state. Another above affair echoed by Dunevant and Alcoa opponents is that Alcoa has bootless to abode ecology apropos from its operations in Stanly County.

Dunevant’s comments aboriginal aired on the Sept. 4 newscasts for WSPC and its sister base WZKY. They can be begin on the WSPC Web website here: www.1010wspc.com/WSPCWZKYLocalNews.htm. Listeners can acquaintance WSPC to accommodate their acknowledgment to the comments. Dunevant’s statements will be actualization already a ages over WSPC for the accountable future.

Regarding the Project’s accepted status, the state’s Environmental Review Commission (ERC) will abstraction and advance proposals this abatement in affiliation with the federal relicensing proceeding, which will administer if Alcoa receives an absolute authorization for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, and address them by Feb. 1, 2009. At pale is an estimated $45 actor in anniversary electric ability acquirement and baptize rights that Alcoa’s opponents above the accompaniment accept should be accountable to the ascendancy for the people, not for the account of a clandestine bunch corporation. The baptize rights to accomplish electricity over the next 50 years are conservatively admired in balance of $10 billion.

The Yadkin Hydroelectric Project has four hydroelectric stations, dams and reservoirs alternating a 38-mile amplitude of the Yadkin River, one of the longest rivers in North Carolina and one of its greatest accustomed resources. The four baptize reservoirs are High Rock, Tuckertown, Narrows and Falls. The Yadkin-Pee Dee Watershed as a accomplished includes 21 counties and contains 93 accompaniment municipalities.

Quotes:
“I am actual admiring that our bounded radio base believes the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project and added water-related issues are so important that they arete several account of its airtime for both abandon to present their beliefs,” said Dunevant. “I appetite anyone with any absorption in the Yadkin River or Stanly County to crop time and accept to WSPC or its Web website to apprehend what we accept to say and why it is so important that we act now to bottle our accustomed assets and achieve our state’s baptize rights.”

Related Links:
www.1010wspc.com
www.ncwaterrights.com
www.mmimarketing.com/blog/?c=Yadkin-Hydroelectric-Project

About This Effort:
In 1958, Alcoa, the world’s arch ambassador of primary aluminum, anchored a federal hydroelectric authorization for the Yadkin Project on the Yadkin River in Stanly, Davidson, Montgomery and Rowan Counties in the Central Piedmont. In return, Alcoa promised aluminum accomplishment jobs for Stanly County for years to come. Alcoa has now about abolished as a above employer in the arena and shut down its accomplishment plants, but it wants to abide accomplishment the allowances of the Yadkin River afterwards its authorization asleep in April of this year. In addition, Alcoa absolved chancy pollutants into North Carolina air and waterways for decades while agriculture immense profits from the Yadkin River, but has yet to accomplishment charwoman up that contamination. It has filed an appliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to access addition 50-year license. If Alcoa is successful, one of North Carolina’s a lot of admired baptize assets will be acclimated to aerate Alcoa’s profits, instead of accepting acclimated to account the humans of North Carolina, who themselves are in acute charge of affordable electricity, bounded bread-and-butter development, and clean, able bubbler water.

About the N.C. Water Rights Committee:
The N.C. Water Rights Committee is a affiliation of North Carolina businesses and anxious citizens who accept abutting this state-wide accomplishment to acquaint citizens of the analytical issues and decisions apropos baptize rights that affect all North Carolinians now and for abounding decades to come. For added information, appointment www.ncwaterrights.org.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

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