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Legal action against US state’s nuclear plan

Protecting Georgians from Unfair Costs for New Reactors November 24th, 2009 › Clean Energy › Sara Barczak Concerned your home or business electric bills will increase needlessly for new nuclear power reactors that may never get built? Or if these reactors get built in Georgia, concerned there’s no telling how high your electric bills could get?

Southern Alliance for Clean Energy shares your concerns. That’s why we’re suing Georgia utility regulators and the Georgia governor right now. We believe they acted illegally after state lawmakers passed a law in 2009 requiring Georgia Power customers to prepay for new nuclear reactors (small customers, that is, since large businesses had enough clout to cut a deal under the Georgia Dome, exempting them from prepaying the way everybody else has to).

We brought this lawsuit to keep ratepayers from having to prepay for two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro along the Savannah River that Georgia Power and its other utility partners have proposed to build. We’ve asked the Court to review the constitutionality of the so-called “construction work in progress” (CWIP) bill passed earlier this year, the Georgia Nuclear Energy Financing Act (SB 31), and the legality of the Georgia Public Service Commission’s approval of Georgia Power’s request to certify building two new reactors at the Vogtle site.

Many others share our concerns about this consumer rip-off unfolding if the high-risk Vogtle expansion goes forward under the new Georgia law or the Georgia PSC’s ruling:…………….
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November 25, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy