Widespread Support in African American Community for Sale of Santee
Georgetown – The Gullah Geechee Leadership Institute (GGLI) released a letter today signed by 20 South Carolina NAACP branches and African American church leaders endorsing a sale of Santee Cooper. “Santee Cooper is known for over a decade’s worth of missteps, debt and failed projects that have cost ratepayers millions,” reads the letter. “We urge […]
15 Falsehoods: Separating Facts From Fiction in Selling Santee Cooper
Santee Cooper’s recent abuses of customers’ budgets, South Carolina’s political system and our environment make it clear that Santee Cooper customers and our state deserve better. Earlier this year, the South Carolina Department of Administration selected a purchase bid by NextEra Energy as the best among all of the offerors. NextEra’s offer would have erased […]
NO LONGER AN ASSET
Santee Cooper’s record of mismanagement has been reported for years. Their track record is one of mismanagement that hurts Gullah/African American families and our environment. The state-owned utility has been uncooperative, manipulative, deceitful, lacking in diversity and inclusion and continues to rely heavily on costly, dirty, coal-fired electricity generation. The issue is so important that […]
GULLAH GEECHEE CHAMBER ENDORSES NEXTERA ENERGY BID –It’s time for the Sale of Santee Cooper
“It’s time for South Carolina to move past malfeasance, and devastatingly bad decisions of the past,” says Marilyn Hemingway, “and to move boldly into a green, renewable energy future…and NextEra Energy is the stakeholder we need in South Carolina.”
