Posted on 08/02/2008 7:58:57 AM PDT by kellynla
The Maryland Public Service Commission is holding several public meetings this month, beginning tomorrow, about whether a third reactor should be built at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby.
The reactor could double the power-generating capacity of the Calvert County plant. Clearing the regulatory hurdles is a multiyear process, and construction is not expected to begin before late 2009.
UniStar Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between Constellation Energy and EDF, a European energy group, filed an application in November with the Public Service Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, a license given to a public utility by a state regulatory agency to build.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Clearing the regulatory hurdles is a multiyear process”
And therein lies the issue... This is preposterous. Far too much needless redtape blocking substantive development on a wide variety of fronts, not just energy.
But, this multiyear process lies squarely at the feet of the Tree Huggers, the DhimmiRats, and the EnviroWhackos, IMO.
This is the same problem I addressed in that article you posted yesterday. The delays in this process are unacceptable.
Why should it take six years, just to get this project off the ground? Agencies should coordinate their efforts so that approval would take no more than a year.
As for those who don't like nuclear, they can stuff it!
Six years is long enough for one generation of protesters to get tired and another to come of age and get motivated.
It's a process designed for failure.
It’s also time enough for some nut job to find a dirt microbe that is only located on the construction site. Tack on another five years while the courts try to figure that one out.
If our government had been in place around Plymouth Rock, the pilgrims would never have been permission to land. “Oh well, er ah, we need to run an environmental impact study. Just hang on there for three years...”
Build the reactor somewhere inland where the ground is less likely to wash away, and far enough away the LNG facility down the Bay does not pose a hazard.
GO NUKES!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Build the damn reactor.
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