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Saturday March 9. 2013
Featuring:
Casey DeMoss Roberts
Executive Director of The Alliance for Affordable Energy
Casey's experience has ranged from working in the United States Peace Corps to the Gulf Restoration Network, and has spent her career working to solve human health, economic, and other problems related to poor environmental management.
She is a highly sought after speaker following the successful talk at the TEDxOilSpill conference. She earned her Master’s in Public Health, focus in Biostatistics from Tulane University. A Louisiana native, Ms. Roberts is dedicated to the principles of fair, affordable, environmentally responsible, community-based energy for all Louisiana residents. (You can watch her TED talk HERE)
Casey updated us on the Louisiana Public Service Commission's recent reversal of their former adoption of Energy Efficiency Rules plus other efforts under way to curtail energy efficiency in Louisiana. As she put it in a recent article,
"What happened today (February 27) is a travesty and represents a government out of control," says Casey DeMoss Roberts Executive Director for the Alliance for Affordable Energy. "The Louisiana Public Service Commission took the unprecedented step of reversing itself for no other reason than they got a new Commissioner. Rehearing an issue this way is a slippery slope and sends a scary signal to business interests. Who would invest big dollars in a state with an indecisive regulatory body?"
As you will hear in the recorded presentation, Ms Roberts talk sparked a lively discussion and we are grateful for the information she shared with us. We hope to get her back in future for updates on the work of the Alliance.
