Tag Power Plant

C.A.R.E. files voluntary dismissal of motion to intervene

The attorney for the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy (C.A.R.E.) has filed a voluntary dismissal of the group’s motion to intervene through the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. View a PDF of the CARE dismissal filed today by Jim Brugh.…

LMU generating plant will close by January 31, 2016

After three years and three failed attempts to keep the doors open, the days are numbered for Logansport’s electric generating plant. “The generating plant is going to cease operations no later than January 31 of 2016,” LMU Superintendent Paul Hartman…

Sierra Club offers thoughts on Logansport’s power plant

Dear Editor, The proposed agreement between City of Logansport and a private developer to continue to operate the City’s aging municipal coal-burning power plant is likely to be environmentally harmful.  It may also be an economic boondoggle for Logansport and…

Mayor plans to pursue third power plant option

Some of Logansport’s elected officials have promised hundreds of jobs, hundreds of millions of dollars in private investments and lower electric rates as part of a “rate stabilization initiative” introduced in November 2012. Despite failed negotiations with two companies, they…

Power Plant Deadline Passes, Mayor Issues Statement

MAYOR FRANKLIN ANNOUNCES CONTINUED EFFORTS TO REPOWER AND EXPAND LOGANSPORT MUNICIPAL UTILITIES POWER GENERATION Mayor Ted Franklin announced today his continuing efforts to achieve the primary objectives of the Rate Stabilization Initiative (primary objectives), which are: A public-private partnership will…

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