Ameren promotes Karen Foss

VP? From news anchor to some gravy job and now she is a VP? I really do not know her executive management background but I am sure there were plenty of other’s at Ameren with advanced degree’s and more knowledge of that industry that some sophmore on the job?

Must be nice.

Magpie…
I thought all you libtards worshiped the Europeans. The nations of Europe have been dominated by nuclear power for decades. So Magpie, are the Europeans killing the planet with their over abundance of nuclear power stations? Or, are they saving the planet by not producing Carbon emissions via fossil fuels?

Percentages of total power by Nuclear fission power plants:

France - 80%
Sweden - 45%
Germany - 30%
Great Britain - 40%
United States - 15%

How many wind turbines would it take to generate the power of a small nuke plant like Callaway? Answer: 795 (continuously spinning)

1 Large wind turbine - 1.5 megawatts | Callaway nuke plant 1190 megawatts

Magpie - Where would you like to put 795 turbines in Missouri to make up the power production of a nuke plant such as Callaway? And your brothers-in-arms PETA will be livid at your decision!!! How many of Owls, Eagles, Hawks, Ducks, Geese, and other birds will be sacrificed to the wind turbine God? (we could donate the chopped up birds to homeless shelters for food)

Love Karen, smart, talented and a beautiful 65 year old. But her dealings with Ameren have zero effect on my feelings for them….and it may just taint her image a bit. What Ameren should do is promote the members of the Missouri Utility Service Commission, , because they’ve help raise more money for the monopoly over the past three years than anybody. They were formerly known as the Missouri Public Service Commission but since they aren’t voted in by the public, or seem to serve them in any respectable or consistent way, I think the new name fits them better. The public needs to vote on these people or there is zero accountability for their utility bias stance on almost any increase a utility asks for.

There are many folks who can’t pay their electric bill–or struggle to pay it every month. Why should their money (and ours) go to pay the salary of an overly compensated PR hack for a monopoly utility? What value is Karen Foss really adding for any of us rate-payers?

wow!
big surprise!!!!!!!

typical midwestern nepotism.

have people seen THIS:
http://thefossbewithyou.tumblr.com/post/101219530/foss-the-wicked-witch-of-midwest-electric

Oh great - the Foss lovers are posting. Just what we need. Listen, I hope you guys aren’t a bunch of libtards. You’re probably just a bindle of Granite City drop outs. If you want the real story about Foss, there’s only one place to go:
http://thefossbewithyou.tumblr.com/

…And this is news because…

Yeah, OK, has her real hair grown back in yet or not? That’s the news I want to know.

The hiring Ms. Foss is an obvious attempt by AmerenUE to help sell the public a dangerous bag of goods. Get someone good looking, that has credibility with the public, and who can tell a good story, and you’re on your way to successfully brainwashing your target audience. Its one thing if your talking about a coal or gas fired power plant. Who wants one of these plants in your backyard? Sure they’ve got a level of danger, but nothing even remotely as dangerous as a nuclear plant. Why would anyone even want to be on the same planet with one of these? They’re all ticking time bombs. Sooner or later there will be another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island incident and the world won’t be so lucky. And even if its not an inconceivable accident that causes the release of radiation, it’s a sitting target for terrorists. Even though the experts never released their findings, it doesn’t take a genius to know we were and still are all exposed to some amount of the radiation from those disasters as the radiation circled the earth as radio active fallout. Did you know the land around Chernobyl won’t be safe for approximately 10,000 years. Who needs an actual atomic bomb when you’ve got nuclear plants all over the country, and the nuclear plants radio active waste that is just as prime of a target? Does it really make sense for the US to try to promote world wide nuclear weapon disarmament and then approve the build up of more nuclear plants on our own soil? Lets just keep perfecting other sources of clean green methods of power generation. Once we open the doors to more nuclear the clean green power generation movement will die out, just as it did when oil prices fell and SUV movement was promoted by the car companies. We better wise up before these power company monopolies take over our brains. There is a reason they want nuclear, it’s a lot cheaper to generate power. It makes the big guys look better and increased their salary and bonuses when they make big profits. If a catastrophe occurs, it will either be blamed on human error, or a mechanical failure that wasn’t conceivable. The company might have to pay a fine and some amount of monetary restitution, but they won’t go out of business, they are a monopoly, and we need power companies. The fines, restitution, and rebuilding will just be passed on to the customer’s in future rate hikes. AmerenUE doesn’t have anything to lose by building an unsafe dangerous nuclear power plant, if it runs without incident they make tons of money, if it melts down or getas blown up, surviving customers will rebuild another plant with their rate hikes. Follow the money, because its always about the money.

She was a “Television journalist”, a news anchor. In what upside down world does that make her qualified in brand management? I can see media relations, after all those years in front of a camera she’s obviously comfortable talking in front of them. Brand management though? Really? Since when does she have a marketing degree?