Xpost EE: Markey: GOP Picks Risky Nukes Instead Of Clean Renewables (Solyndra)

[kristopher]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x311875

Markey: GOP Picks Risky Nukes Instead Of Clean Renewables
The nuclear disaster in Japan continues to deepen the sense of devastation from one of the worst tsunamis in history. Despite a long history of concern over the safety of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, nuclear power boosters like Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) now claim the ongoing meltdown is something “no one has ever really anticipated outside of science fiction movies.”
Fueled by intense lobbying from the nuclear industry, Republicans in the House of Representatives are ignoring the meltdown, pushing full steam ahead with billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for new nuclear plants, even as they zero out programs for renewable energy....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/20/151759/markey-gop-nuclear



For Insight On Solyndra Loan, Ask The Nuclear Industry, Markey Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/for-insight-on-solyndra-l_n_978188.html


Markey Calls for Scrutiny of Nuclear-Power Loan Guarantees
By Brian Wingfield - Sep 23, 2011 11:15 AM GMT-0400

Congress should examine whether the U.S. nuclear industry pressed lawmakers and the Energy Department to alter loan-guarantee requirements for reactors, Representative Edward Markey said.

“I urge you to commence hearings into the implementation of the nuclear power plant loan-guarantee program,” including an $8.3 billion award to a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Co. (SO), Markey said today in a letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-23/markey-calls-for-scrutiny-of-nuclear-power-loan-guarantees-1-.html


And finally there is an excerpt from the Congressional Budget Office advising legislators that the loan guarantees for nuclear power have a "risk of default ... well above 50 percent".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x311875


Call your congressional rep and support Markey's line of questioning.