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<\/a>\nafter\n<\/a>\nafter\n\nThree Mile Island.<\/a>\nOK, plus a state Supreme Court ruling, but that would be easier in Georgia\nsince the New Hampshire Supreme Court already set a precedent of upholding\nthe NH law.\nAfter Fukushima,\n\nGeorgia could ban CWIP<\/a> and end the new Plant Vogtle construction.\nThe we could\n\nget on with building solar<\/a>.\n\nHere’s the text of the NH law, taken from\n\nthe NH Supreme Court ruling:<\/a>\n \n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A one-paragraph law can do it; that’s all it took in New Hampshire to ban Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) after Three Mile Island. OK, plus a state Supreme Court ruling, but that would be easier in Georgia since the New Hampshire Supreme Court already set a precedent of upholding the NH law. After Fukushima, […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,142,14,8,18,19,20,2910,104],"tags":[2911,2912,1323,8746,2652,8704,713,2914,2913,2194,8861,2884,8737,633,1002,999,899,2915,902,8716],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-cwip","category-economy","category-georgia","category-georgia-power","category-history","category-law","category-new-hampshire","category-nuclear","tag-bankruptcy","tag-chapter-11","tag-construction-work-in-progress","tag-cwip","tag-dr-sidney-smith","tag-economy","tag-financing","tag-funding","tag-great-depression","tag-late","tag-new-hampshire","tag-no-nukes","tag-nuclear","tag-over-budget","tag-psnh","tag-public-service-company-of-new-hampshire","tag-seabrook","tag-solartopia","tag-three-mile-island","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-gn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n“378:30-a Public Utility Rate Base; Exclusions. Public utility rates or\ncharges shall not in any manner be based on the cost of construction\nwork in progress. At no time shall any rates or charges be based upon\nany costs associated with construction work if said construction work is\nnot completed. All costs of construction work in progress, including,\nbut not limited to, any costs associated with constructing, owning,\nmaintaining or financing construction work in progress, shall not be\nincluded in a utility’s rate base nor be allowed as an expense for rate\nmaking purposes until, and not before, said construction project is\nactually providing service to consumers.”\n<\/blockquote>\nSimple enough.\nThe\n\nGeorgia legislature<\/a> could do it.\nKnowing the NH CWIP ban caused PSNH\n\nto go bankrupt on costs for the Seabrook nuclear plant<\/a>,\nGeorgia Power might back off on Plant Vogtle rather than have such a law passed.\n