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Mitt Romney – all for nuclear, fossil fuels – nix for renewable energy

The Romney energy plan gives the Nuclear Regulatory Commission greater “capabilities for approval of additional  nuclear reactor designs” and streamlining “NRC processes to ensure that licensing decisions for reactors on or adjacent to approved

sites, using approved designs, are complete within two years.”

Romney Backs Fossil Fuels and Nuclear, Drops Renewables,   Environment News Service (http://s.tt/1lA7F)  BOSTON, Massachusetts, August 23, 2012 (ENS) – Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney today released an energy plan for the nation that supports development of oil, gas and nuclear power but undercuts wind and solar energy.

…… Romney said he would expand off-shore oil drilling along the coast of mid-Atlantic swing states like North Carolina and Virginia, where it is currently banned and in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Romney plan also includes drilling for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a hot-button issue for environmentalists concerned about wildlife protection from oil spills in this fragile habitat. Congress has blocked drilling there for more than 25 years.

President Barack Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney struck back today, saying, “I think what distinguishes the President’s all-of-the-above approach to our energy future from the Republican approach is that the Republican approach is essentially one that is written by or dictated by big oil and focuses almost entirely on oil and fossil fuels.”

“This President believes we need to embrace all forms of domestic
energy production, including oil, including natural gas, including
nuclear energy – which, as you know, this administration has invested
in for the first time in 30 years – including renewables like wind and
solar,” said Carney…. The Romney energy plan gives the Nuclear Regulatory Commission greater “capabilities for approval of additional  nuclear reactor designs” and streamlining “NRC processes to ensure that licensing decisions for reactors on or adjacent to approved
sites, using approved designs, are complete within two years.”
Environment News Service (http://s.tt/1lA7F)….. Romney has said he
would allow the production tax credit for wind energy to expire at the
end of the year, which will happen if Congress does not reauthorize
it.
Environment News Service (http://s.tt/1lA7F)
http://ens-newswire.com/2012/08/23/romney-backs-fossil-fuels-and-nuclear-drops-renewables/

August 24, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized