With the recent Jasper increase in electric rates set to go into effect in August, future rate increases may come sooner than expected. With over a million dollars in expenses between maintenance, capital improvements, and the biomass litigation, the City of Jasper will contact the Indiana State Board of Accounts for guidance on how to…
Jasper will begin the process of finding a company or organization interested in leasing the power plant again. The recommendation from the electric committee includes a broader scope of use for the power plant including another power production company or a research facility interested in using the power plant for exploring environmental technologies like carbon capture….
Dr. Norma Kreilein, her husband, Mike, Alec Kalla and Rock Emmert were all in session during the Jasper Utility Service Board (USB) meeting Monday night — the eve of Earth Day — when it was announced that Jasper Clean Energy would be terminating the lease to create a biomass power plant in Jasper. John Rudolf, a…
On April 8, 2014, Healthy Dubois County, Inc., was awarded a $500 grant from the not-for-profit environmental organization Heartwood. HDC’s grant proposal titled We Can‘t Breathe What We Burn focuses on the prevention of further pollution-related cancers and asthma in Jasper and the Dubois County area. Earmarked to support HDC’s renewed efforts to stop the proposed Jasper,…
It has come to our attention that proponents of the Jasper “Clean Energy Project” have been using a report published by the Sierra Club and Worldwatch Institute in their efforts to promote plans to burn biomass to generate electricity. I would like to set the record straight on the Club’s position on biomass for energy….
The City of Jasper maintains it didn’t violate Indiana Open Door Law, but a court decision may never be heard in the case brought against the city by Healthy Dubois County, Inc (HDC). The Jasper Utility Service Board and Common Council, in separate meetings Monday night, unanimously approved a settlement offer from the group. The…
The Jasper Utility Service Board and the Jasper Common Council joined in a special meeting Friday morning to decide on a settlement offer from Healthy Dubois County in regards to the open door lawsuit. The litigation has hung over the proposed power plant conversion project since the USB and common council approved moving forward with…
Jasper — Judge Sherry Gregg Gilmore issued a partial summary judgement on November 26 in regards to the ongoing lawsuit brought against the City of Jasper by Healthy Dubois County, Inc., Dr. Norma Kreilein, Rock Emmert, et al. Judge Gilmore ruled on a request by the attorneys for the City of Jasper limiting the new trial…
On Wednesday, Special Judge Sherry Gregg Gilmore heard arguments from attorneys for the City of Jasper and Healthy Dubois County, Inc. (HDC) on the city’s request for summary judgment concerning the scope of the upcoming trial. The city is asking that the upcoming trial not include the six executive sessions that were included in the…
Jasper — The City of Jasper’s defense in the lawsuit filed by Healthy Dubois County, Inc. in August of 2011 has cost city utility ratepayers over half a million dollars so far. The city has paid Bingham Greenebaum Doll, LLP, the firm representing the city, $514,547 on a nearly monthly schedule over the course of…