The ancient Waccamaw were river dwellers and inhabited the riverbanks from Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina all the way to Winyah Bay near Georgetown, South Carolina. They may have even been one of the first mainland Natives introduced to Europeans, demonstrating their journey began long before they were officially recognized. The Europeans nearly wiped out the…
Category: Conventional Energy
During the process of gathering information for this project, Santee Cooper was asked several times for information on involuntary electricity terminations for their service area. That information was never made available. The private utilities operating within South Carolina have the information publicly available on their websites. Santee Cooper does not have a visible organizational structure,…
British Petroleum (BP) is one of the world’s largest oil companies and is infamously known for the Transocean oil rig explosion which released approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The revenue lost by 210 million gallons of crude is worth approximately $408,807,000 at market prices in 2010. Combined with other losses BP incurred,…
The reality is chasing sunlight to get work finished and not having electricity consistently available is not out of the norm for the rest of the world. 17 percent of the world’s population currently lives without electricity. That is almost unimaginable for the majority of Americans because, as a nation, the U.S. uses 25 percent of…
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