Posted on 02/19/2012 9:34:33 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
”That thing was greased,” as they say in Chicago, referring to a political phenomenon known as “being handled before table.” Well, bloggers are asking, Was it?
Word now coming out reveals just two days after Secretary of State Brian Kemp gave Barack Obama the green light to appear on Georgia election ballots, the Department of Energy awarded Kemp’s state an eye popping $8.3 billion loan guarantee to begin construction on two nuclear plants.
In the face of “a shocking dissent by Nuclear Regulatory Commission CHAIRMAN Director Gregory B. Jazcko,” four other commissioners approved awarding Southern Energy the first nuclear construction licenses since 1978, just one year before the tragedy of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster put a hold on new U.S. nuclear plant construction.
No new licenses have been approved until this huge Vogtle project got its go ahead to build two new reactors near Augusta.
“Jazcko said that the approved designs did not take the lessons of Fukushima into account. I cannot support issuing this license as if Fukushima never happened,” he told other NRC members before their shocking vote to approve this estimated $14 billion project.
Friends of the Earth’s climate and energy project Director Damon Moglen is vowing to challenge the validity of the newly approved license in court. “The license may be granted, but these reactors are far from a done deal,” he said.
Applications for 16 other plants looking to build 25 more reactors are on file with the NRC according to CNN Money reporter Steve Hargreaves, who added, “there are two applications submitted for brand new nuclear plants-one in Levy County, FL, and another outside Gaffney, S.C.”
While other viable nuclear construction projects await approval, the Georgia project got the green light in spite of the NRC director’s vehement objection...
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Oh, just a coincidence, I’m sure. Just like all the other dastardly, destructive things this regime does. Greased, indeed. And I’ve lived Chicago politics for most of my adult life.
I still wonder why these idiots oppose the cleanest type of energy production there is.
Nawwww - ya think? (except I wouldn’t be so quick to tie it to nuclear power plants).
And the beauty of it is that the power plant will never really be built. It will be challenged in court by every tree-hugging group in the country and be tied up in litigation for decades.
What Zero would call a win-win; quid-pro-quo to get on the ballot, no new nukes to pacify his Green base.
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Nothing to see here folks.... move along. The dog and pony show will resume at the appellate level.
sigh...
And what does my daughter ask me RIGHT NOW? Mom. how do you spell “evil”? I had to force myself not to spell “Obama”. No joke, this really did just happen.
And there is the Obummer way out in 2013 -
“It's for the children. How could we ruin the environment?”
Malihi, a Democrat appointed by a Democrat, needed no prompting or bribe or arm-twisting to conclude “Oh look! Here is dicta an Indiana state appeals court case that concludes that our precious Barry is an NBC!”
Rollover #1-a couple of years ago on the eligibility question for fed $$$ for dredging the Savannah Port.
Rollover #2-dropping eligibility questioning gets you fed $$$ for power plants that will never be built.
Maybe if Georgia keeps bringing these court cases, we can eventually have every highway paved in gold-—that is, IF we’re the WHORES our politicians, judges and Secretaries of State seem to be.
Al Capone’s lieutenant Frank Nitti lives on in Obamaland, courtesy of Saul Alinsky.
I have an idea. I’d like each state to hold these hearings. Either 0 will be left off the ballot, or the state will get a nuke plant.
remarkable coincidence ping!
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks bitt.
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