x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by sc.lmhostediq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:28:49 -0500 thread-index: AdEnB32ejUPjbp0+Rz2y45USeydXiQ== Thread-Topic: Mt. Holly Power Contract From: To: Subject: Mt. Holly Power Contract Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:28:49 -0500 Message-ID: <9348547F1A8C4F9CB902AD6CF85396C4@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Nov 2015 22:28:49.0831 (UTC) FILETIME=[7DBDF370:01D12707] CUSTOM Mr. Joe D Harnage Harnage 224 Midland Ct. Bonneau SC 29431 joseph.harnage@centuryaluminum.com 8432961718 8432961718 GOVE Mt. Holly Power Contract 12.156.103.194 Below is what is going on in another state. This governor is taking actions in several different markets to save jobs (not just aluminum plants). Mt. Holly is not asking for $69 million although, if Santee Cooper, is not willing to rethink their position, $69 million is about what we would also need over a 3 1/2 year period also. If we could get 100% of our power out-of-state, it would be the equivalent windfall without spending anything. The negative impact to rate payers is make-believe. If there are any monetary impacts because we are transporting 400 megawatts, we could pay them. This was an opportunity to be a leader on taking action on a national issue but you can be a follower and still and be a Hero. We take tremendous pride in being a union-free facility which is part of why Google, Boeing, and Volvo came to the area. Read this last line of the article. If you do not support us, the union could use this as an example for SC businesses to organize. Presently, their power rates are 1/2 of what we pay and 1/3 of Santee Cooper is charging us for their portion. Yet, we still can compete with them because we are so much more efficient. It is not too late to act. Press & Sun-Bulletin reports 600 jobs saved: Alcoa reaches deal with New York ALBANY - An upstate New York smelting plant will be saved for at least 3½ years after state leaders announced Tuesday a nearly $69 million incentive package to stave off 600 job cuts. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Charles Schumer made the announcement at the Alcoa plant in Massena, St. Lawrence County, after the company announced earlier this month it planned to close the more than 100-year-old plant. Schumer and Cuomo teamed up earlier this month with an incentive package for Kraft-Heinz Co. to keep open three upstate manufacturing plants and try to find a new operator for a fourth plant in the Southern Tier. About 940 jobs were on the chopping block. "This is the state's way of stepping up. We understand the situation. We'll save those jobs," Cuomo said. "We want to save that plant. We believe it's a cycle, and we'll put our money where our mouth is." The incentives include $30 million from the New York Power Authority and $38.8 million from Empire State Development, the state's economic-development arm, for capital improvements and operating expenses for the plant. The agreement requires Pittsburgh-based Alcoa to keep at least 600 jobs through March 2019. If not, the company would be hit with a $40 million penalty, Cuomo said. That's an incentive package of up to $115,000 per job. The incentives are directly tied to the price of aluminum, Cuomo said: If the price of aluminum increases, the state's subsides would decline. Schumer said he was caught off guard by Alcoa's layoff announcement, saying he and Cuomo were not told of the imminent cuts. Then they started negotiating with the company. "Today, after darkening clouds, a bright ray of sunshine shines in the North Country," Schumer said. Cuomo said he's focused on improving the upstate economy through new jobs, but sometimes the state needs to step in to keep existing positions. The state has had to battle of series of job cuts in recent weeks. In addition to Alcoa and Kraft-Heinz, Entergy, which owns Indian Point in Westchester County, announced plans to close its FitzPatrick nuclear plant outside Syracuse, which has about 600 jobs. Also, GlobalFoundries laid off about 150 people at its two semiconductor plants in Malta, Saratoga County, and East Fishkill, Dutchess County. "If we're creating jobs and they are good-paying jobs, everything else will take care of itself," Cuomo said of helping existing companies. "And if there's a challenge, this state will step up, and this is just a microcosm of what we can do." The Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank, criticized the incentives, saying on Twitter that it equates to about $65,000 a job, excluding the energy incentives, for an $11 billion company. Alcoa union leader Ernie LaBaff praised the agreement: "Thank all of you for making this the best Thanksgiving of my life."