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May 7, 2018

Entergy Paid Actors to Support New Orleans Power Plant at Public Hearings
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The New Orleans news site The Lens has revealed the energy company
Entergy paid actors to attend-and in some cases speak at-public hearings
to support a proposed $210 million power plant in eastern New Orleans.
Photographs from the hearings show dozens of people wearing the same
orange shirt that read "Clean Energy. Good Jobs. Reliable Power." One
actor said, "They paid us to sit through the meeting and clap every time
someone said something against wind and solar power." The New Orleans
City Council approved the new Entergy power plant in March.
Environmental groups have sued to block the project, in part because
they were turned away from public meetings because of lack of space.


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