“As the magnitude of the Vogtle project disaster becomes clearer, the Public Service Commissioners are becoming less toleratant of criticism…. Steve Prenonvitz … heaps criticism on Georgia Power but also on the Commission itself…. Then there is Nuclear Watch South [whose] … assertions are painfully true and therefore irritating to the Commission, which is joined at the hip with Georgia power on the Vogtle project.”
Georgia Power has now provided details concerning the settlement with the Vogtle contractor. The total payout is $915 million of which Georgia Power’s 45.7% share is $350 million. Also agreed was a $69 million change order. This is a hit for customers, quite different from what the Company said for years: they expected to prevail in the litigation but were working on a possible settlement. (Ratepayers are protected unless the Commission orders a cost disallowance, which they should.)…
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Some of the more thought-provoking articles in this issue are:
Physician Explains Some Wind Turbine Health Impacts
Wind Infrasound Hazards Worse than Initially Thought
The laughable idea that renewable energy is or ever will be ‘least cost’
The Charade of Industrial Wind
Non-Compliant Wind Developers Are Threatened with Jail Time
Two Well-Intentioned Laws and Aims Collide
Continue Reading“In the United Nations Paris Accord last December world leaders promised to try to reduce future emissions. These politicians shamelessly clapped each other on the back, pretending they had accomplished something important. However, they had agreed beforehand not to even discuss the only action that could rapidly reduce global emissions.”
– James Hansen, “‘I am an Energy Voter’” February 23, 2016.
James Hansen is mad at the “I am an Energy Voter” campaign that encourages consumers to vote for their favorite energies at the ballot box, not only at the pump. Hansen, in fact, is mad at the free society where buyers voluntarily buy and sellers voluntarily sell. Ludwig von Mises called that consumer sovereignty.
Hansen wants otherwise. Renewables as savior is for the Tooth Fairy, he believes, so nuclear and forced conservation (conservationism) is atop his agenda — forced by a punitive carbon tax (or fee-and-dividend as he puts it).…
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