An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By Mitch Berg
Minnesota came close to repealing its decade-and-a-half old ban on nuclear power plants in the last session; the Senate approved the repeal, and it failed in the House by about a dozen votes.
A new group, spanning some unlikely bedfellows, has spawned to Ctry to fix the problem:
A coalition of business, labor and environmental leaders has joined a new nonprofit organization to advocate repeal of Minnesota’s ban on new nuclear power plants.
Three veteran Republican operatives organized the group, Sensible Energy Solutions for Minnesota, but on Tuesday they announced formation of a bipartisan board of advisers that represents a wide range of interests.
I’m going to try to book some of these people on the NARN one of these weekends. Minnesota’s “moratorium” – a culmination of years of paranoia about plants and waste in the nineties – is a vestige from a time of cheap energy and cheaper solutions to vexing issues.
It’ll be most interesting, as Cap and Trade promised to jack up heating bills enough to make Minnesota too expensive to live in for anyone making less than $60,000 year, to see the defenses the left comes up for this “moratorium”.
August 13th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
My representative said Cap and Trade would only cost me $100 more a year. He also held a “debate” on health care recently with panels stacked with local government bureaucrats. Guess who my representative is …
August 13th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
In my ‘evil-mongering’ way I work around the crap-and-trade for heating: I use a corn burning stove to heat the house. It’s cheaper than gas, doesn’t take too much attention (daily loading when it’s cold and a once-a-week 10 minute cleaning), supports the farmer down the road and I don’t even use 0.5 acre to get enough corn to burn for the winter.
August 17th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Burning food is a dumb idea.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
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