(NH) Rushing energy bill bad way to set policy

[salin]

http://nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=358&ArticleID=93844

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Rushing energy bill bad way to set policy

What a bad way to do the people’s business. Post a 1,400-page bill to revise the nation’s energy policies on the Internet on a Saturday afternoon and ram it through both houses of Congress by the end of the following week.

That’s happening with the new energy bill conceived by a group of Republicans behind closed doors that is now being pushed for approval in a matter of days.

It is studded with some $23 billion worth of tax “incentives,” and $9 billion in direct spending and in Treasury revenue losses. The big winners are the nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas industries.

much more -
including Sen. Greg being willing to support a fillibuster?

[Atman]

1. Check this out...stealth "states rights" theft by Bush admin

I am in Connecticut. After the fake blackout, this Cross Sound Electric Cable from CT to Long Island was ordered turned back on as an "emergency measure." Now, it seems, we can't turn it back off again if we wanted to, despite the fact that it isn't buried deep enough, leaks insulation chemicals into the sound and generally fails to meet approved specs.

But Gov Rowland is a gooooood friend of Kenny Boy Lay and another certain creep in Washington who shall remain nameless lest I lose my lunch..

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Energy Bill Sanctions Sound Cable
November 18, 2003
By STEVE GRANT, Courant Staff Writer

Tucked away on Page 42 of the massive new energy bill that emerged from a congressional conference committee this weekend are five lines of text that seem like so much innocuous bureaucratic busywork:

"Continuation of Transmission Security Order. Department of Energy No. 202-03-2, issued by the Secretary of Energy on August 28, 2003, shall remain in effect unless rescinded by Federal statute."

But this unheralded nugget touched off an uproar in Connecticut Monday when it was discovered it would effectively mandate permanent use of the controversial Cross Sound Cable between Connecticut and Long Island.

Under the provision, it would take an act of Congress to turn the cable off."

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Edit for broken URL...

http://www.ctnow.com/news/custom/topnews/hc-crosssound.artnov18,1,3372708.story?coll=hc-headlines-topnews

[Deaner1971]

2. I couldn't agree more

I have already bugged my (unfortunately Repub) Senator to vote against the energy bill. Could that energy bill be a more blatant appeal for campaign contributions from the oil and gas lobby?

The Repubs are making a more noxious smell than do their oil and gas sugar daddies!

Please, contact your Senator before it's too late!

[newyawker99]

3. Hi Deaner1971!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: