The House is set to vote Tuesday on the $500 billion 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. Hidden in the bill is a major energy package that would boost government financing for the nuclear industry. It would provide loan guarantees of up to $25 billion for new nuclear reactors. We speak with Harvey Wasserman, editor of nukefree.org. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Too bad there isn't time to really source this story and provide a bit more depth since its only a current news interview. It does give some background into back room manipulations from lobbyists - a short history of energy lobbying would have been helpful. However, I'm very interested in what is keeping us from moving forward on energy., and this story provides a much needed start. We need more news orgs to deal with this topic.
The energy stories for the month threaten to climax with this disaster of a bill giving government welfare to large corporations to poison the planet to build nuclear plants so dangerous and expensive that financial institutions will not touch them without suckering the public into assuming all the risk.
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