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David and Goliath fight to repeal crooked nuclear plant bailouts in Ohio

Why Ohio Lawmakers Are Rethinking Recent Nuclear Power Plant Bailouts, NPR , December 14, 2020

Heard on Morning Edition

ANDY CHOW
The clock is ticking for lawmakers to repeal the bailouts that are part of an alleged $61 million bribery scheme. They only have a few weeks before new charges appear on customers’ electric bills

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Lawmakers in Ohio are looking at repealing a nuclear power plant bailout that was passed last year. Federal investigators are linking the passage of the bill to the biggest corruption case in the state’s history. Here’s Ohio Public Radio’s Andy Chow.

ANDY CHOW, BYLINE: Ohio’s sweeping energy law that bailed out two of the state’s nuclear power plants is now tied to a $61 million bribery scheme. It’s an alleged web of conspiracy entangling the speaker of the House, a huge energy company and the state’s top utilities regulator.

Let’s go back to 2017. The U.S. Department of Justice says that’s when Republican State Representative Larry Householder hashed out a plan with a utility company, not directly named but believed to be FirstEnergy. That plan was a quid pro quo. Householder would get money to help him become speaker, and FirstEnergy would get a bailout of its nuclear power plants. From 2017 to 2018, Householder was backed by millions of dollars in so-called dark money used to elect his allies in House races around the state.

Fast-forward to January 2019. Those allies elect Householder as speaker, and he then rolls out a plan for a billion-dollar nuclear power plant bailout, the money coming from ratepayers. Rachael Belz, a ratepayer advocate with Ohio Consumers Power Alliance, says something smelled fishy.RACHAEL BELZ: It seemed an awful lot like a real setup. It was never more apparent than HB6 and even heading into it that we were David and they were Goliath……….. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/14/946189606/why-ohio-lawmakers-are-reconsidering-nuclear-power-plant-bailouts.

December 15, 2020 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA

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