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Electric Utilities

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Florida Cop Dresses as Electric Company Worker to Snoop For Pot Without Warrant

    ​Florida cops, it seems, will do just about anything to find that marijuana plant growing in your closet. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether Miami police violated the Constitution by routinely sniffing around suspected grow houses with drug-smelling dogs without first getting a search ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    FPL's $268 Million Early Cost Recovery A Ripoff, Pols Say

    If you have electricity in your house, you have paid FPL $268 million ostensibly to build two new reactors at Turkey Point. You'll probably pay nearly $200 million more in 2012. Problem is, those reactors may never be built. Last week we warned that the utility's Turkey Point pla ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2011

    Global warming could put Turkey Point nuclear reactors under water

    If you have electricity in your house, you have paid FPL $268 million ostensibly to build two new reactors at Turkey Point. You'll probably pay nearly $200 million more in 2012. Problem is, those reactors may never be built. Last week we warned that the utility's Turkey Point pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Turkey Point Reactors Vulnerable to Global Warming, Experts Warn

    ​"We are the most vulnerable metropolitan area in the world when it comes to sea level rise," says University of Miami professor Harold Wanless. Sitting in his office, the avuncular geologist paints a bleak picture. Global warming is a fact, and the results are already visible: hurricanes are gett ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2011

    Carnivores at Propaganda April 29

    ​"We are the most vulnerable metropolitan area in the world when it comes to sea level rise," says University of Miami professor Harold Wanless. Sitting in his office, the avuncular geologist paints a bleak picture. Global warming is a fact, and the results are already visible: hurricanes are gett ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2011

    Five reasons Turkey Point could be the next nuclear disaster

    ​"We are the most vulnerable metropolitan area in the world when it comes to sea level rise," says University of Miami professor Harold Wanless. Sitting in his office, the avuncular geologist paints a bleak picture. Global warming is a fact, and the results are already visible: hurricanes are gett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Radiation From Japan Has Arrived: Our Food and Water Are Exposed

    via Flickr BlatantNews.comRadiation in your food and water? Fuggedahboutit!​Due to devastation caused by the Tsunami that recently hit Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is leaking radiation. It might not sound like a big deal to us, except for the fact that said radiation is traveling all t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Turkey Point: Five Reasons Miami's Nuclear Power Plant Is Apocalyptically Unsafe

    ​With Japan on the brink of a devastating meltdown, nuclear power is coming under increased scrutiny around the globe. We talked to Jupiter-based Thomas Saporito, a former instrument control technician and safety whistleblower at nuclear power plants in Florida, Arizona, and Texas. Saporito now wo ... More >>

  • Music

    October 7, 2010

    Trinumeral Festival with Big Boi, Blackalicious, and Tokimonsta, October 8 to 10

    ​With Japan on the brink of a devastating meltdown, nuclear power is coming under increased scrutiny around the globe. We talked to Jupiter-based Thomas Saporito, a former instrument control technician and safety whistleblower at nuclear power plants in Florida, Arizona, and Texas. Saporito now wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    FPL Refuses to Answer Public Concerns over Nuclear Safety at Turkey Point

    Just before midnight last February, the top nuclear operator at Turkey Point quit on the spot and stormed out of the plant, convinced that profit-hungry FPL executives were pushing the nuclear reactor to restart too soon after a shutdown. A little mishap you might have heard of in a Ukranian town ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Chávez cut the lights? Conspiracies Abound.

    Just before midnight last February, the top nuclear operator at Turkey Point quit on the spot and stormed out of the plant, convinced that profit-hungry FPL executives were pushing the nuclear reactor to restart too soon after a shutdown. A little mishap you might have heard of in a Ukranian town ca ... More >>

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Clever Green

    Florida is starved for electricity. Some eco-renegades are growing their own.

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Return of Three Mile Island?

    Exelon plans to build a new nuclear power plant. Ho-hum.

  • Recreation

    May 17, 2001

    Best Place To Jet Ski

    Turkey Point Inlet

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    The Energizer

    Forget the bunny. Robin Parker has a battery that might save the world.

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Talking Turkey Point Blues

    The feds want to know: Is a proposed airport too close to Turkey Point?

  • Music

    September 18, 1997

    Rotations

    The feds want to know: Is a proposed airport too close to Turkey Point?

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    Chomp in the Swamp

    Tracking South Florida's endangered crocodiles is a business best left to experts and maniacs

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