Jun
26
Join CURE as we gather at Wegdahl County Park on the banks of the Minnesota River to celebrate Women, Water & Democracy on Saturday, July 28 from 10 am – 10 pm. The morning features an Introduction to a Water Ethic Charter for Minnesota presented by CURE and The State of Minnesota Waters presented by […]
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26
For the past 20 years CURE has been organizing cleanups in the Upper Minnesota River watershed. This past Earth Day we brought together 25 volunteers for about 3 hours of work surrounding the new Chippewa County Park along the Minnesota River in Wegdahl. The clean up netted about 600 pound of trash, a couple of discarded TVs, an old […]
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CURE's Minnesota Local Energy Project loves co-ops, but we want our co-ops to readily provide member-owners with all the information they need to make decisions. #energydemocracy
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Minnesota co-op websites get failing grade on disclosing power sources
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A rural environmental group takes electric cooperatives to task for not providing better online information.For every $1 you give we get $3 more! CURE has qualified for a $25,000 Small Cities Commercial Rehabilitation Grant if we can raise a $7,500 match. This match will help us with more than 50% of our renovation project. Thank you for Giving to the Max! www.givemn.org/story/Curenipandtuck
When member-owners are cut out of the process co-op executives can do as they please, totally unchecked. We need to bring our co-ops back under member control.
How can co-op member-owners make the smartest decisions for their co-op if they don’t have all the information available to them?
Minnesota rural electric co-ops aren’t making the grade when it comes to democracy and transparency. Check out how your co-op stacks up.
Minnesota Local Energy Project
Today the Minnesota Local Energy Project is releasing the Rural Electric Co-op Report Card. This report details the shortcomings CURE found on the websites of Minnesota's 44 rural electric co-ops. Th...