{"id":1003,"date":"2012-03-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/missouri-has-defeated-cwip-so-can-georgia.html"},"modified":"2012-03-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T14:00:00","slug":"missouri-has-defeated-cwip-so-can-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/missouri-has-defeated-cwip-so-can-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Missouri has defeated CWIP: so can Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"A veteran of the original No Nukes movement calls Plant Vogtle\nand CWIP like he sees it.\n

\nHarvey Wasserman wrote Friday for EcoWatch,\n\nNuclear Power’s Green Mountain Grassroots Demise<\/a>,\n

\nThe accelerating revolution in renewables has allowed solar, wind\n\n<\/a>\nand other green sources to outstrip atomic reactors in cost, time to\nbuild, ecological impact and safety. As billions pour into\nSolartopian sources, private investment in atomic energy has all but\ndisappeared—except where there are massive taxpayer subsidies.\n

\nEven that’s not enough. In 2011, President Obama handed $8.33\nbillion in federal loan guarantees to the builders of two reactors\nat Georgia’s Vogtle. But Peach State ratepayers are already being\nsoaked for billions more in pre-payments, and the cost of the\nproject is soaring. A parallel financial disaster looms at the\nRobinson site in neighboring South Carolina. Though the industry\nassumes these four reactors will eventually be finished, economic\nrealities may say otherwise.\n

\nCost estimates for new nukes have been soaring even before\nconstruction begins. Even with federal money, the builders still\ndemand that state ratepayers foot the bill as the process proceeds,\nmeaning consumers are on the hook for multiple billions even if the\nreactors never open. Pitched battles over this Construction Work in\nProgress scam have already been won by consumers in Missouri and are\nbeing fought in Iowa and elsewhere. As the years of building drag\non, costs will escalate while renewables continue to become cheaper.\nSooner or later, construction is likely to stop, as it did at\nnumerous projects in the 1970s and 1980s which were never finished.\n<\/blockquote>\nWe can end CWIP in Georgia.\nIt will benefit Georgia Power and the EMCs as well as all the rest of us\nwhen we stop wasting tax and customer dollars on boondoggles like Plant Vogtle\nor biomass or private prisons and get on with clean, profitable, job-creating\nrenewable energy in Georgia: wind off the coast and sun inland.\n

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