Federal court rules TVA refusal to close on sale of Bellefonte plant was legal

By , Daily Memphian Updated: August 28, 2021 3:38 PM CT | Published: August 27, 2021 4:15 PM CT
<strong>Chattanooga developer Franklin L. Haney Sr. stands in front of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Hollywood, Ala.</strong>&nbsp;(Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian file)

Chattanooga developer Franklin L. Haney Sr. stands in front of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Hollywood, Ala. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian file)

Developer Franklin Haney’s plan to buy the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant and sell the electric power it generated to Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division started the ongoing exploration of MLGW possibly leaving the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Franklin Haney MLGW TVA contract Bill Johnson MLGW

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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