Cury then founded People Outraged With Electric Rates (POWER), a local advocacy group.
[2] Cury strongly opposed the construction of the Dames Point Bridge, and was a vocal leader of the opposition to the project.
His main opposition in this project was Wesley Paxson, the chairman of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA).
At his store, he sold a copy of Ralph Nader's newsletter, Critical Mass.
[5][6] Cury opposed the Offshore Power Systems (OPS) project, a 1970 joint venture between Westinghouse Electric Company, which constructed nuclear generating plants, and Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, which had recently merged with Tenneco, to create floating nuclear power plants at Jacksonville, Florida.
Opposition to the project was both local and national because many people questioned the safety of nuclear power.