Comment: The south has lots of other things to offer for alternative energy, The South has sun, wind off the coast and mountains!! The southern coast has lots of wind but most Senators from the south has their heads in the Nuke Cycle, where they monies may come from!! Nuke Power is old, dirty, not clean because begins with uranium mining and milling which is not clean, green or carbon free. No to Nuke Power, No to Uranium mining & milling anywhere in the world!!
If you’ve wondered how life would be different if John McCain had won the 2008 presidential election, here’s one example of McCain supporting a policy that Barack Obama opposes.
At the urging of President Obama, members of the U.S. Senate are trying to craft a plan that would require utility companies to generate 15% of their power from renewable energy sources by 2021.
During debate this week over what a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) would encompass, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) tried to push through an amendment that would classify nuclear power as a renewable energy. “Reduced greenhouse gas emissions, have cleaner sources of energy and diversity: I certainly think nuclear power meets all of those definitions,” McCain told his colleagues, who rejected his proposal.
McCain isn’t the only senator trying to find a place for nuclear power in the current energy debate.
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) claims excluding carbon-free nuclear power from the renewable standard penalizes states in the Southeast that have invested heavily in nuclear power plants. Unlike the Midwest, which can turn to wind, or the Southwest, which has lots of sun, the South does not possess the same abundance of a natural renewable source of energy.
But it does have the highest density of nuclear plants of anywhere in the country.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
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At the urging of President Obama, members of the U.S. Senate are trying to craft a plan that would require utility companies to generate 15% of their power from renewable energy sources by 2021.
During debate this week over what a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) would encompass, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) tried to push through an amendment that would classify nuclear power as a renewable energy. “Reduced greenhouse gas emissions, have cleaner sources of energy and diversity: I certainly think nuclear power meets all of those definitions,” McCain told his colleagues, who rejected his proposal.
McCain isn’t the only senator trying to find a place for nuclear power in the current energy debate.
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) claims excluding carbon-free nuclear power from the renewable standard penalizes states in the Southeast that have invested heavily in nuclear power plants. Unlike the Midwest, which can turn to wind, or the Southwest, which has lots of sun, the South does not possess the same abundance of a natural renewable source of energy.
But it does have the highest density of nuclear plants of anywhere in the country.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
href="http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/McCain_Tries_to_Classify_Nuclear_Power_as_Renewable_Energy__Voted_Down_90607
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