Response to Greg Anderson Release:
“We’re glad to see that Mr. Anderson doesn’t deny that he’s opposed to offshore drilling and he has no real energy plan. In a news release filed with name calling, he refused to address the fact that he’s completely wrong on energy independence.”
- Wesley Donehue, spokesman for the SC Senate Republican Caucus
A Marquette University alum who is now a Republican state senator in South Carolina was elected to the Marquette University Board of Trustees on Wednesday.
Greg Ryberg is a native of Eau Claire who graduated from Marquette in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. After graduation he worked at Kimberly-Clark in Neenah and at the Sanford Corp. in Chicago before moving to South Carolina in 1977. He also served in the United States National Guard from 1968 to 1974.
In 1977, Ryberg purchased an oil distributorship in Aiken, S.C., and started a convenience store business. He built 53 stores employing more than 550 people before selling to a public company in 1999. (more…)
The leader of the South Carolina Senate says the state needs a comprehensive energy plan.
Walhalla Sen. Thomas Alexander said his State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee is excited and ready to go to work to make that happen.
Alexander said Monday the committee would begin work within a week, hoping to have recommendations ready by the end of the year.
Charleston Sen. Glenn McConnell wrote Alexander’s committee, outlining challenges the state faces. The president pro tem of the Senate said South Carolina faces problems that go well beyond $4 per gallon gasoline prices and double-digit increases in wholesale power costs prompted by coal prices. (more…)
MCCONNELL CALLS FOR COMMITTEE TO STUDY ENERGY
With the energy crisis at its political and socioeconomic nadir, there have been a lot of great ideas floating around the forum of public debate lately.
It’s difficult to say which proposal is the best, and in 10 or 20 years I’m sure we’ll be doing a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, but everyone agrees we must act now. Even the state legislature, lead by Sen. Glenn McConnell, who has requested that a joint legislative body provide members of both the General Assembly and the state’s Congressional delegation with a comprehensive overview of South Carolina’s energy resources.
“I believe responsibility lies with our General Assembly to conduct research, hold hearings, and act when it comes to policy that will put our state among a list of winners – both as to energy supply and environmental stewardship,” McConnell said in a press release Monday. “While the onset of $4 per gallon gasoline and double–digit increases in wholesale power costs caused by skyrocketing coal prices have moved ‘energy’ to front and center in the public’s mind, the challenge for our state is truly a long-term one. (more…)