The Louisiana Public Service Commission approves Entergy’s request to charge its customers an additional 10-dollars a month for the next 15 years to pay for the damage done to the power grid from four hurricanes and a winter storm. PSC member Foster Campbell voted no because he believes Entergy should also pay part of the repair bill…
Cut 12 (10) “…the people.”
Fellow PSC member Eric Skrmetta voted for the surcharge
Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves predicts another surge in gasoline and electricity prices because of what he calls Russia’s veiled invasion of Ukraine. Graves says Russia is one of the largest net exporters of oil and gas in the world…
Cut 6 (11) “…electricity bills.”
Graves says the Ukraine-related sanctions imposed by the U-S and others will cut off Russian energy supplies.
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AARP data shows an alarming increase in COVID transmission among Louisiana nursing homes for the month of January. AARP State Director Denise Bottcher says staff cases increased from 102 in December to 55-hundred, and for residents, it went from 54 to 36 hundred.
Bottcher expects February numbers to decrease as they usually lag two weeks behind statewide numbers.
Governor John Bel Edwards testified before the U-S Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and he asked the committee to support the Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act, that allows Gulf States to receive a share of offshore oil revenues to fund restoration and protection projects, and a stronger relationship with the Army Corps of Engineers.