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Speaker Madigan, Exelon Declare "Nuclear War" on Renewables, Pass HR1146
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Speaker Madigan, Exelon Declare Nuclear War on Renewables, Pass HR1146
Submitted by NUCBIZ on June 5, 2014 - 17:41
CHICAGO By voice vote the Illinois House approved a resolution introduced by House Speaker Michael Madigan with extensive cooperation from Exelon Corporation that would create massive subsidization of unprofitable Exelon nuclear plants in Illinois, and do serious damage to the growth of the renewable energy sector.
HR1146, the Nuclear Power Plant Closure resolution was introduced by Speaker Madigan only last Friday, May 23rd, largely at the behest of Exelon Corporation. It sets in motion policy and governmental mechanisms that would essentially nuke renewable energy in Illinois, and guarantee that nuclear and coal would be the mainstay of Illinois electricity production for the foreseeable future.
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Last week in the Legislature, Madigan and Exelon conspired on an agreement to kill the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) fix, in exchange for Exelon keeping running for the next year five nuclear reactors it said were unprofitable, and was threatening to close. This week Exelon and Madigan are attempting to unleash every aspect of State government to support the continuation of running nuclear reactors, potentially awarding them clean energy credits like solar and wind would get, and use the upcoming EPA air standard requirements as a way to use nukes to offset the pollution from coal plants, many of which otherwise face shutdown, allowing them to continue operating.
This Resolution is not just a pro-nuclear resolution. It is an overt effort to destroy renewable energy statewide, a way to keep dirty coal plants running, and a way to continue and make permanent the outdated system of centralized baseload power, in spite of the fact that the Legislature already granted ComEd 10 years of rate increases to finish a smart grid which was supposed to begin to replace the outdated baseload utility model, and be more renewables friendly, Kraft maintains.
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Wanting to insure that his Resolution appeared to have no opposition, Speaker Madigan took a particularly paranoid approach to getting it out of the House Environment Committee unanimously. He used an arcane Speaker privilege to temporarily dismiss six Committee members likely to vote against the Resolution Reps. Sente, Gabel, Harris, Jakobsson, Nekritz, and Halbrook and replaced them with six Reps who voted in favor of HR1146.
by Norma Field - Published by Atomic Age
Speaker Madigan, Exelon Declare Nuclear War on Renewables, Pass HR1146
Submitted by NUCBIZ on June 5, 2014 - 17:41
CHICAGO By voice vote the Illinois House approved a resolution introduced by House Speaker Michael Madigan with extensive cooperation from Exelon Corporation that would create massive subsidization of unprofitable Exelon nuclear plants in Illinois, and do serious damage to the growth of the renewable energy sector.
HR1146, the Nuclear Power Plant Closure resolution was introduced by Speaker Madigan only last Friday, May 23rd, largely at the behest of Exelon Corporation. It sets in motion policy and governmental mechanisms that would essentially nuke renewable energy in Illinois, and guarantee that nuclear and coal would be the mainstay of Illinois electricity production for the foreseeable future.
<snip>
Last week in the Legislature, Madigan and Exelon conspired on an agreement to kill the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) fix, in exchange for Exelon keeping running for the next year five nuclear reactors it said were unprofitable, and was threatening to close. This week Exelon and Madigan are attempting to unleash every aspect of State government to support the continuation of running nuclear reactors, potentially awarding them clean energy credits like solar and wind would get, and use the upcoming EPA air standard requirements as a way to use nukes to offset the pollution from coal plants, many of which otherwise face shutdown, allowing them to continue operating.
This Resolution is not just a pro-nuclear resolution. It is an overt effort to destroy renewable energy statewide, a way to keep dirty coal plants running, and a way to continue and make permanent the outdated system of centralized baseload power, in spite of the fact that the Legislature already granted ComEd 10 years of rate increases to finish a smart grid which was supposed to begin to replace the outdated baseload utility model, and be more renewables friendly, Kraft maintains.
<snip>
Wanting to insure that his Resolution appeared to have no opposition, Speaker Madigan took a particularly paranoid approach to getting it out of the House Environment Committee unanimously. He used an arcane Speaker privilege to temporarily dismiss six Committee members likely to vote against the Resolution Reps. Sente, Gabel, Harris, Jakobsson, Nekritz, and Halbrook and replaced them with six Reps who voted in favor of HR1146.
by Norma Field - Published by Atomic Age
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Speaker Madigan, Exelon Declare "Nuclear War" on Renewables, Pass HR1146 (Original Post)
bananas
Jun 2014
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)1. This draconian move by Speaker Madigan could not possibly be legal in the longterm.
The Dems in the House need to bring this bill back for votes after the "temporary" appointees have stepped down.
I recognize that the whole process is "rigged". Yet, this particular rig job is so blatantly unfair, it might be successfully challenged.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)2. Where are the people of Illinois? Are they brain dead? nt
kristopher
(29,798 posts)3. Coal and nuclear - two sides of the same coin.