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	<title>Consumers Council of Missouri &#187; Electric</title>
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		<title>Rate Hikes</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2010/03/29/rate-hikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Information about several rate hikes was in the Missouri news this past week. A $0.34 hike for Laclede Gas Customers was approved by the Public Service Commission, to take effect beginning March 31.  This brings the total monthly charge for customers to $1.34.  This charge will appear on customers&#8217; bills as the infrastructure system replacement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MO senators consider bill to pay for power plants</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/02/11/mo-senators-consider-bill-to-pay-for-power-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/02/11/mo-senators-consider-bill-to-pay-for-power-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Senators grilled AmerenUE leaders during a hearing Tuesday on legislation allowing utilities to charge electric customers for the costs of new power plants before they come online. Missouri law bars investor-owned utilities from passing the expenses of building a power plant to their customers before the facility starts producing electricity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri lawmakers debate a bad energy bill</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/02/10/missouri-lawmakers-debate-a-bad-energy-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/02/10/missouri-lawmakers-debate-a-bad-energy-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A state Senate committee is scheduled to begin hearings today on a deeply flawed bill that would remove key consumer protections for utility customers. The measure, Senate Bill 228, would repeal a 1976 law that prohibits utilities from charging for the cost of building a new power plant until it starts generating electricity. SB 228 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Plant Bill Worrisome for Consumers</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/01/23/nuclear-plant-bill-worrisome-for-consumers/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/01/23/nuclear-plant-bill-worrisome-for-consumers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri&#8217;s energy debate is about to go nuclear. A state lawmaker filed a bill in the Legislature on Thursday that sets the stage for a battle between utility interests who want to build a new nuclear plant and consumer groups that are leery of the costs. The action comes the day after AmerenUE chief executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GA Power Bill Introduced</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/01/15/ga-power-bill-introduced/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/01/15/ga-power-bill-introduced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CWIP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ga. Power bill introduced Friday by Tom Crawford Sen. Don Balfour (R-Snellville) confirmed that he will introduce on Friday a bill that would allow Georgia Power Co. to start charging ratepayers six years in advance for the construction of two nuclear generation units at Plant Vogtle. The Balfour bill is expected to be one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Fool&#8217;s Day (actually 10 pm) Hearing Attempts to Hoodwink Consumers</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2008/04/04/april-fools-hearing-trys-to-hoodwink-consumers/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2008/04/04/april-fools-hearing-trys-to-hoodwink-consumers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ameren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers are rejected in late night meeting with legislators by Michael Sorkin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Consumers complain that they don&#8217;t get much respect from Missouri legislators, even in an election year. A group of consumer representatives asked a key legislative committee to block surcharges that could be tacked onto consumer electric bills starting this year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water:  Liquid Gold</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2008/04/02/water-liquid-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2008/04/02/water-liquid-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home water rates are going up By Michael Sorkin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch &#160; The price of water in St. Louis went up Tuesday, and residents of St. Louis and St. Charles counties and Southern Illinois may be next to pay more when they turn on their water faucets at home. St. Louis residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trojan Horse Gallops around Jeff City</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2008/03/20/the-trojan-horse-gallops-around-jeff-city/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2008/03/20/the-trojan-horse-gallops-around-jeff-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ameren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KCP&L]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power switch Missouri utilities want to change state law to encourage energy efficiency programs. They&#8217;re willing to help their customers pay for installing energy-saving equipment, insulation or even new energy-saving air-conditioning systems. Saving power is a good thing — for the nation, for consumers and especially for electric companies. It means they don&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolphus Busch IV Lauds Senator Joan Bray and Easy Connect Act</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2007/10/24/adolphus-busch-iv-lauds-senator-joan-bray-and-easy-connect-act/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2007/10/24/adolphus-busch-iv-lauds-senator-joan-bray-and-easy-connect-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adolphus Busch IV is the proud owner of five new massive solar panels, angled toward the sun atop steel structures resembling white football goal posts. The $100,000 system makes Busch owner of the region&#8217;s largest personal solar power plant, according to energy officials. Busch, along with several proponents of renewable energy, held a news conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taum Sauk infomercial- news blurb or news blur?</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2007/09/13/taum-sauk-infomercial-news-blurb-or-news-blur/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2007/09/13/taum-sauk-infomercial-news-blurb-or-news-blur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TracyMcC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH EDITORIAL In prime time, KSDK-TV was scheduled to air &#8220;A New Beginning: Johnson&#8217;s Shut-ins State Park.&#8221; Its subject, as the title suggests, was the popular Missouri state park that essentially was destroyed in December 2005 by a wall of water released by the catastrophic failure of AmerenUE&#8217;s Taum Sauk hydroelectric reservoir. Because [...]]]></description>
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