City mulls $5M penalty over paid power plant 'supporters'
Source: Associated Press
Kevin Mcgill, Associated Press
Updated 1:25 pm CST, Thursday, February 14, 2019
Photo: Kevin McGill, AP
Opponents of a planned gas-fired power plant for eastern New Orleans are part of the crowd gathered for a city council committee hearing on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 in New Orleans. The hearing included discussions of a $5 million proposed penalty for Entergy New Orleans over the use of phony paid supporters who showed up at previous hearings in the project.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans officials moved closer Thursday to imposing a $5 million penalty on a major utility company over the use of secretly paid actors at public hearings last year to support plans for a new gas-fired power plant.
The penalty would be part of a settlement that would still allow the plant to be built.
Recommended Videoagreement would go to the full council.
Plant opponents have pressured the council to reconsider approving the plant after it was found that contractors hired by Entergy to seek out support for the plant paid people to support and speak in favor of the plant at public hearings.
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