Idaho House committee OKs tax break for wind power

[Fledermaus]

Wind energy developers with projects nearing completion are closer to winning tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks after a state legislative committee voted Wednesday to send a bill backed by Idaho Power Co. and other utilities to the House floor.

The measure was approved on a 12-5 vote in the House Revenue Taxation Committee. It includes extending the rebate for geothermal, manure digesters and other alternative energy projects until 2014.

There had been competing bills, with House Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts favoring removing wind from the rebate deal. He argued the industry has firmly established itself in the state, with hundreds of megawatts of projects either on line or due to be built in coming months, potentially boosting costs for ratepayers.

But the advocacy of House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke helped sway the final vote. He spent recent weeks acting as a diplomat between the utilities and wind developers who started on opposite sides but wound up supporting the bill.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9M9P8T01.htm

[madokie]

1. Now we're talking

One thing about it if one goes kablooie it won't take a whole chunk of the earth with it like nuclear does nor will it continue to kill for years, as once again, nuclear does and will.

Rec #2

[PoliticAverse]

2. Sure it's not nuclear power...

but some of it may still be killing for years...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html

[madokie]

3. You know why that is don't you

its because our companies offshore because they don't want to deal with our environmental laws. All this work should be done here where we have laws against this kind of shit. Oh and we need to kick the NRC out of bed with the nuclear industry first in order to get anything done. Look what happened in the gulf when the regulatory agency charged with policing that industry was chummy with the industry they were overseeing.
Its called getting ducks in a roll and thats exactly what this country needs to do about its energy needs.
Bombing oil bearing countries isn't the way to do it either

When it comes right down to it its nothing but pur-d-o greed that has us where we are today. IHMO

[Nihil]

4. Your last line hits the nail on the head. (n/t)

[madokie]

5. And thats what's going to do us in n/t IMO