Sentences with phrase «massive nuclear subsidy»

... The whole thing is a green scam to justify a massive nuclear subsidy.»

Not exact matches

Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of aging upstate nuclear power plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April 1.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of aging upstate nuclear power plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.

Brook Riley continued: «A 27 % energy savings target is incomprehensible at a time when Europe is facing energy insecurity and is considering dangerous alternatives like shale gas and tar sands, and giving massive subsidies to nuclear, to meet demand.»

But Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, insisted the expansion of nuclear power could not go ahead without some form of public subsidy because of the massive costs of construction.

What, and the supposed green alternative to nuclear — wind power — doesn't require massive public subsidy on an even greater scale?

The massive subsidy for solar takes nothing away from the New Jersey victory, which benefited from a stronger and better - coordinated efforts by a nuclear industry weakened by the 50 year war against it.

Nuclear power doesn't compete with other energy sources anywhere because it receives massive public subsidies in the form of liability limits enjoyed by no other energy source — not even close.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

Gee, if only we could weaponise solar power, then we could get for it the same massive subsidies that nuclear power has received.

Renewables would need no subsidies if the current massive subsidies were withdrawn from fossil fuels and nuclear power.