PSC approves $17B nuke project

The Public Service Commission this morning unanimously approved Progress Energy's $17-billion nuclear project. For more, see our blog The Fueling Station.

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good stuff

No problems with the project. Still don't think the customers should be funding this as we are not stockholders in the company.

This project should not be built. We will not see one watt of energy from this plant until 2016, and no one can guarantee that it will cut the price of energy.

No, wait - that's the line against off-shore drilling. My mistake.

when do we get to knock down the coal plant in Apollo beach?

Nuke Now, Nuke Here, Lower gas prices...No, wait - that's the line for off-shore drilling. My mistake.

11:49 - great point.
3:44 - LAME.

[Donald Lance]

I think if the Dems want to go with alternatives vs. carbon, then Harry Reid should be forced to open up Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste storage. If he won't allow that, then we should be able to drill. Harry's been saying "Not in my backyard" to waste storage, yet he won't support drilling either. This just goes to show that the Dems truly must like living in the dark.

We need more nuclear power and even more in the future - near and distant.

Place the necessary safe guards and let's get this excellent source of energy going.

This is written by someone who has for most of his life opposed nuclear energy. More recent developments though necessitate this course of energy needs.

Of course, solar panels, wind, and other alternative forms of energy production are also essential.

5:32 pm -- Energy issues and resolutions (partial ultimately) are quite complicated as you indicated. However the same goes for others of both political parties.

If your home state was going to store potentially millions of barrels of extremely toxic materials, would you support such in representing one's citizens?