Ohio’s Anti-Green Suicide
Published on Friday, January 23, 2015
by EcoWatch
Ohio’s Anti-Green Suicide
by Harvey Wasserman
Swing state Ohio is plunging ever deeper into the fossil/nuke abyss.
Its Public Utilities Commission may soon gouge the public for $3 billion (BILLION!) to subsidize two filthy 50-year-old coal burners and America’s most dangerous nuke.
Approval would seal Ohio’s death notice.
None of those coal/nuke burners can compete with the rising revolution in renewable energy. Throughout the world, similar outmoded facilities are shutting down.
In 2001, Ohio deregulated its electric markets. But the state’s nuke owners demanded nearly $10 billion in “stranded cost” handouts so the obsolete Davis-Besse and Perry reactors on Lake Erie could allegedly compete with more efficient technologies.
Today, despite the huge subsidies, renewables and fracked gas have completely priced them out of the market.
More:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/23/ohios-anti-green-suicide
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