CHANNEL 44 NEWS: Sierra Club Urges Vectren to Make Changes

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NOVEMBER 16TH, 2016

MATT PEAK EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

 Move beyond the expense and hazards of coal. That was the message of the Rally for a Clean Energy Future hosted by the Sierra Club Wednesday.

Evansville residents and Vectren customers gathered at the Four Freedoms Monument to urge the utility company to invest in clean energy.

Vectren is in the process of finalizing it’s 20 Year Energy Plan.

The Sierra Club presented a letter to the Vectren CEO.

In the letter, the group asks Vectren not invest $240 million into plants to keep them running, but instead retire them.

In a statement from Vectren, the Corporate Communications Director says the company has conducted a series of public meetings, and Vectren has modeled scenarios it will present at the final public meeting.

The final Vectren Public Stakeholder Meeting is November 29th at its headquarters.

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4 COMMENTS

  2. the deadbeat commies are without a doubt going to be crushed by Mr.Trump…….😁…….coal and oil for all…………..

  3. What about all the jobs that will be lost if a plant is retired? Those workers have built a life around they’re job, given up holidays with family, worked 30+ days consecutively. I don’t think it is fair to simply send them to the unemployment line. Coal is much cleaner than it used to be. Vectren has always been on the cutting edge of “scrubbing” the hazardous particles from the smoke. I agree clean energy is the way to go, but we simply can’t completely get rid of coal fired power plants. Coal is cheap and abundant, you think your energy bill is high now? Wait til you have to pay for a natural gas fired power plant, that’s what will replace the coal fired eventually. Again workers out of a job, higher energy bills, and a natural resource that is less damaging to the environment to harvest than natural gas.

  4. Wow, I suppose none of them have a family member that works at those plants. Nor have they really done their research. Vectren has plans for a natural gas plant that would convert the coal fired plant. But this will take much more than 240 million I would assume. Coal is cheap, abundant, and has come a long way in the “scrubbing” process. The plum from the stack is water vapor aka steam. Fracking is much more harmful to the environment, and wind farms takes a HUGE amount of land. Energy bills will go up if the plants are retired, and the unemployment rate.

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