Will Your Electric Bill Subsidize Local Aluminum Company?
Fri, Apr 11, 2014
Click the link below to watch Executive Director Irl Scissors on KTRS! KTRS: Will Your Electric Bill Subsidize Local Aluminum Company?
Utility rates and special deals
Thu, Apr 10, 2014
Noranda Aluminum operates a smelter plant near New Madrid that employs 500 or so of our neighbors. Noranda claims that Ameren Missouri must cut the rate it charges for electricity used at the New Madrid plant by approximately 25 percent or those jobs might go away. To reduce Noranda’s electric rate by that magnitude would […]
During address to renewable energy conference, Gov. Nixon announces launch of comprehensive energy plan
Tue, Apr 8, 2014
Initiative will engage stakeholders across Missouri to develop a comprehensive energy plan for the state Columbia, MO During an address to an annual renewable energy conference at the University of Missouri in Columbia today, Gov. Jay Nixon announced that the Missouri Department of Economic Development’s Division of Energy will lead a statewide initiative to develop a comprehensive energy plan for the state. […]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Letter to the Editor – Glad that St. Louis opposes Noranda’s request for rate change
Fri, Apr 4, 2014
It isn’t often that you hear about the city of St. Louis taking on the big state government in Jefferson City, but they sure did right by us last week (“Strange bedfellows emerge in Noranda rate fight,” March 31). An aluminum company based in Tennessee with a smelter in New Madrid, Noranda has a case […]
RELEASE: Continental Cement Tells PSC NO to Noranda Rate Shift
Tue, Apr 1, 2014
Jefferson City, MO – Following up on their motion to intervene, Continental Cement, headquartered in Chesterfield with facilities in Hannibal and St. Louis, sent a formal letter to the Missouri Public Service Commission, making very clear their objection to the Noranda rate shift request. “Producing cement is also an energy intensive business. As one of Ameren’s […]
***BREAKING NEWS*** St. Louis City Opposes Noranda Rate Shift
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
Opposition Builds Against Hedge Fund Backed Aluminum Co. Bailout Jefferson City, MO – The City of St. Louis sent a letter to the Missouri Public Service Commission to oppose a request from Tennessee aluminum company Noranda, which is owned by hedge fund Apollo Holding Company, for lower electric rates that would shift significant costs onto […]
