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Freedom of Information Act Requests

TVA's Buffalo Mountain Wind Power Plant

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• Data for consumed KW and net generation KW, versus time, from beginning of operation to current date.
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• Revenue and expense data for the wind power plant, from construction to current date.
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• Analysis, data and calculations that TVA used as a basis to state, "The production of wind energy creates no air pollution" (Reference: http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/wind_faq.htm (archive, 2002), under heading, " What is the role of wind energy (archive 2002) in Green Power Switch?")
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• Analysis, data and calculations that TVA used as a basis to state, "In fact, an investment of an additional $8 per month on your power bill buys enough Green Power Switch to equal the environmental benefits of planting an acre of trees in the Tennessee Valley." (Reference: http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/green_mainfaq.htm#3 archive 2002)
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• Analysis, data and calculations that TVA used as a basis to state, "Together the three turbines are expected to produce some six million kilowatt-hours per year" (Reference: http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/wind_faq.htm (archive, 2002), under heading, " How much electricity is produced (archive 2002), and will there be more?")
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The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “Lincoln and Free Speech,” The Great Adventure (vol. 19 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 7, p. 289 (1926). ~

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