"Elimination of a Negative Value": What's a Sewer Worth?
Walker County tax map image of the McLemore (AKA Canyon Ridge) wastewater treatment plant the Dade water board is considering giving...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 1, 2019
EPD Slaps Knuckles of Dade Chromium-6 User But Clears It of More Serious Allegations. Sort of.
A Trenton electroplating company that uses the carcinogen chromium-6 was written up for "secondary violations" after the Georgia...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 22, 2019
Who Knew? Dade Does, Too, Have Its Own Potential Source of Chromium-6 Contamination
Back in September 2016, when The Planet, if not the world, was new, this newspaper did a long investigative piece headed, "Is Dade Being...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 28, 2016
Is Dade Being Poisoned Through Its Drinking Water? More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Chromium-
Dade Water Authority head Doug Anderton shows a chart of contaminants local water is tested and treated for. Chromium-6 is not among...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 30, 2016
Let There Be Light Part 5: I Own This Little Electric Cooperative In Alabama …
This is the fifth and final in an ongoing series on local electric companies, compiled in 2015 and published now for the first time in...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 24, 2016
Let There be Light Part 4: Territories, A Genesis Story (Part B-The "Regulatory Fence")
This is the fourth in an ongoing series on electric companies, compiled in 2015 and published now for the first time in The Planet. As...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 17, 2016
Let There Be Light Part 3: Territories: A Genesis Story
This is the third in a series on electricity, compiled in 2015 but never published before now in The Dade Planet. To understand how there...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 10, 2016
Let There Be Light, Part 2: Why There’s No Such Thing as Real Electricity Rates -- The Fuel Differe
Part 2 in the series about electricity compiled in 2015 and published now in The Planet for the first time. Here is the first question...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 2, 2016
Let There Be "Let There Be Light": Why The Planet Is Publishing This Extremely Interestin&
V I E W P O I N T S Editor's note: Above is the picture of a gospel band I took in spring 2015. The woman at front left is weeping and...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 2, 2016
Let There Be Light: Part I
Residential electric power in America’s big population centers is dominated by giant, investor-owned, for-profit utilities that operate...
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