The Stanly County Board of Commissioners (www.co.stanly.nc.us) is commending Gov. Bev Perdue for filing affirmation on September 18, 2009 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in action to a 50-year licensing face-lifting appeal by Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. (“Alcoa”) for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project. Gov. Perdue believes the bunch close is declining to abode the economic, recreational, baptize above and added ecology needs of North Carolina’s citizens. Her filing is the latest action she has taken demonstrating how Alcoa has bootless to appearance its affair for the health, assurance and abundance of the accepted accessible as it attempts to advance a cartel on baptize rights and hydroelectric ability generated by the Project, which includes dams and powerhouses alternating a 38-mile amplitude of the Yadkin River at High Rock, Tuckertown, Narrows and Falls Reservoirs in Davidson, Rowan, Montgomery and Stanly counties.
Gov. Perdue’s latest filing at FERC includes a business plan developed by the N.C. Department of Commerce advantaged “THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S 21ST CENTURY PLAN FOR THE USE OF THE YADKIN RIVER RESOURCES.” This abstraction concludes that adverse to Alcoa’s claims, the state’s anamnesis of its baptize rights for the Project is economically achievable and financially amiable to the State of North Carolina. According to the business plan the State will administer the Yadkin River assets for the accessible acceptable and to authenticate the State’s adeptness to administer this ability by:
1.Providing complete administration of this acute and admired accessible ability and fiscally advisable operation and aliment of both the baptize assets of the Yadkin River and the hydroelectric bulb facilities.
2.Allocating a allocation of the Project revenues for appropriate basic improvements to the Project that will enhance the above of the Yadkin River amnion and assembly from the anachronistic bulb facilities, and assure acceptance of citizens to cooler water, even during astringent droughts.
3.Dedicating a allocation of the anniversary revenues to allotment long-term, advancing programs that enhance the basement of the arena and the State, including accessory and abiding allotment of our association academy system.
4.Dedicating a allocation of the anniversary revenues to armamentarium bounded improvements abreast the Project, whether environmental, accessible health, or recreational, with ascribe from bounded communities and agencies.
5.Providing funds for long-term, absolute planning for the Yadkin River Basin, to axle alteration accessible amiable needs, and that will accommodate the State with the adaptability to act promptly to accommodated accessible needs apropos to baptize accumulation and the administration of the Yadkin River.
6.Providing a archetypal for operating the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project calmly and in a business-like appearance with amount abounding aback into about admired basement for the State.
Governor Perdue has been an agog analyzer of Alcoa’s proposed relicensing based on bread-and-butter and ecology concerns. In a letter to the FERC anachronous June 3, 2008, if she was abettor governor, she requested a adjournment by the agency not to admission the authorization by acquainted that “the antithesis of clandestine against accessible account associated with operation of the dams in these communities is now decidedly altered than it was if the dams were aboriginal licensed” to Alcoa in 1958. In March of this year she appear her intentions to seek action at FERC while acquainted that Alcoa affected hundreds of North Carolinians out of plan if it bankrupt its smelter at Badin in 2002, admitting adage in its 1958 licensing it would accumulate those jobs as allotment of its blank of the Project. Eight associates of the N.C. aldermanic appointment followed the governor’s advance and wrote to FERC requesting that she be accustomed acceptable time to present new affirmation assuming why Alcoa’s appliance for a 50-year authorization for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project should be denied,
On May 20, Gov. Perdue filed a “friend of the court” abrupt requesting that Administrative Law Judge Joe Webster admission an admonition barring the arising of a 401 Water Quality Certification to Alcoa for the Project. Alcoa have to access the accompaniment acceptance in adjustment to accept a authorization from FERC. Special Deputy Attorney General Faison Hicks batten on account of Gov. Perdue and told Judge Webster that in the governor’s view, Stanly County’s address for the admonition “has aloft questions traveling anon to the abundance of our environment, the activity of the Yadkin River and, ultimately, the bloom and assurance of the humans of this state” that charge to be addressed afore Alcoa accustomed the certification. Judge Webster agreed and disqualified May 26 to abjure acceding Alcoa the admittance until a abounding address is heard from both abandon of the matter.
If Alcoa receives the FERC license, it will accept an absolute cartel on baptize rights to conduct hydroelectric operations on the Yadkin River for addition 50 years, and the befalling to accomplish abounding millions in profits affairs electricity generated from amnion acceptance to North Carolina citizens. Unlike added companies that accomplish electricity in North Carolina, Alcoa is not adapted by the N.C. Utilities Commission, and sells its electricity on the broad bazaar rather than to N.C. customers.
The Stanly County Board of Commissioners accept been able opponents of acceptance Alcoa to abide its cartel of the Project because of Alcoa’s poor ecology history with its operation on the Yadkin River, the abandonment of operations by Alcoa at the Badin Works with its accompanying accident of 1,000 jobs and the appropriate of the humans to ascendancy the baptize that belongs to them. Many added official groups accept accustomed this position, including a lot of afresh the State Executive Committee of the North Carolina Democratic Party, which anesthetized a resolution in abutment of the accompaniment recapturing the baptize rights for the Project on Aug. 29.
Related Links:
www.co.stanly.nc.us
www.governor.state.nc.us
www.enr.state.nc.us/index.htm
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“Once again, the Stanly County Board of Commissioners is acutely accountable to Gov. Bev Perdue as she continues to action the acceptable action for our baptize rights,” said Stanly County Commissioner Lindsey Dunevant. “The governor has been able to see the accuracy of this affair amidst all the circuit provided by Alcoa and knows she is advancing the best advantage for the accompaniment in the continued run for its bread-and-butter and ecology future.”
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 expires 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.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
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