{"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":"<p>A veteran of the original No Nukes movement calls Plant Vogtle<br \/>\nand CWIP like he sees it.<\/p>\n<p>\nHarvey Wasserman wrote Friday for EcoWatch,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.org\/2012\/nuclear-powers-green-mountain-grassroots-demi\nse\/\"><br \/>\nNuclear Power&#8217;s Green Mountain Grassroots Demise<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe accelerating revolution in renewables has allowed solar, wind<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.org\/2012\/nuclear-powers-green-mountain-grassroots-demi\nse\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\n\/hwasserman.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nand other green sources to outstrip atomic reactors in cost, time to<br \/>\nbuild, ecological impact and safety. As billions pour into<br \/>\nSolartopian sources, private investment in atomic energy has all but<br \/>\ndisappeared&mdash;except where there are massive taxpayer subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>\nEven that&#8217;s not enough. In 2011, President Obama handed $8.33<br \/>\nbillion in federal loan guarantees to the builders of two reactors<br \/>\nat Georgia&#8217;s Vogtle. But Peach State ratepayers are already being<br \/>\nsoaked for billions more in pre-payments, and the cost of the<br \/>\nproject is soaring. A parallel financial disaster looms at the<br \/>\nRobinson site in neighboring South Carolina. Though the industry<br \/>\nassumes these four reactors will eventually be finished, economic<br \/>\nrealities may say otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\nCost estimates for new nukes have been soaring even before<br \/>\nconstruction begins. Even with federal money, the builders still<br \/>\ndemand that state ratepayers foot the bill as the process proceeds,<br \/>\nmeaning consumers are on the hook for multiple billions even if the<br \/>\nreactors never open. Pitched battles over this Construction Work in<br \/>\nProgress scam have already been won by consumers in Missouri and are<br \/>\nbeing fought in Iowa and elsewhere. As the years of building drag<br \/>\non, costs will escalate while renewables continue to become cheaper.<br \/>\nSooner or later, construction is likely to stop, as it did at<br \/>\nnumerous projects in the 1970s and 1980s which were never finished.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can end CWIP in Georgia.<br \/>\nIt will benefit Georgia Power and the EMCs as well as all the rest of us<br \/>\nwhen we stop wasting tax and customer dollars on boondoggles like Plant Vogtle<br \/>\nor biomass or private prisons and get on with clean, profitable, job-creating<br \/>\nrenewable energy in Georgia: wind off the coast and sun inland.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran of the original No Nukes movement calls Plant Vogtle and CWIP like he sees it. Harvey Wasserman wrote Friday for EcoWatch, Nuclear Power&#8217;s Green Mountain Grassroots Demise, The accelerating revolution in renewables has allowed solar, wind and other green sources to outstrip atomic reactors in cost, time to build, ecological impact and safety. 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