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Today is the final public hearing for Connecticut ratepayers to comment on two proposed rate increases for gas utilities. Connecticut Natural Gas and Southern Connecticut Natural Gas filed for rate increases in 2023. CNG wants to boost company revenues by $20 million with a one-year rate plan beginning November 1. ...
Virginia's General Assembly has approved legislation to develop small modular nuclear reactors. The bills passed both chambers despite concerns about how this affects ratepayers. Senate Bill 454 allows utility companies to begin billing customers during a research and development phase, which means ratepayers can be billed for engineering, site development and other costs before utility companies get a power plant permit. ...
Sir — Adopted people are still facing an uphill battle to get any information in the very secretive world of adoption in Ireland.
It appears an autumn election is on the cards, and one could also happen in Britain. Irish and British autumn elections have never happened in the same year.
While your front-page article on planning permission (‘Thousands build without planning but they still get away with it’, Irish Independent, January 6) and the accompanying story inside did an excellent job of highlighting the widespread flouting of planning rules, it failed to mention the huge difficulties facing those objecting to such activities.