We strongly encourage all MSE members and supporters to contact both your state senator and representative as soon as possible, asking them not to support passage of any bill that repeals the anti-CWIP legislation enacted by Missouri voters by a two-to-one margin.
The existing No-CWIP law is an essential consumer protection. Ameren and other utilities should not be able to transfer financial risk to their ratepayers, or begin charging them for a plant now that won’t be in operation for another decade, if ever.
Callaway 1 with an artist's rendition of Callaway 2.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW: Here are the web addresses where you can find phone numbers and email address for your legislators:
http://www.house.mo.gov/member.aspx
http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/senalpha.htm
If you are not certain the name of your state rep or state senator, you can go to http://www.senate.mo.gov/ and plug your zip code into the legislator lookup box. If you don’t know your full nine-digit zip code, you can get this at http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp
WHERE WE STAND TODAY: Although one CWIP repeal bill was thrown out in the Senate recently, there remain others hovering in both chambers that could still be rammed through or attached to other legislation at the last minute. Our legislators need to know this is totally unacceptable. Currently, the bills we’re concerned with are House Bill 124 and either Senate Bill 321 or Senate Bill 406. Please reference these when calling, but be sure to indicate that any bill that allows any CWIP funding is unacceptable.
Some suggested points you can make are:
* Ameren Vice-President Steve Kidwell has stated publicly that if Ameren would pursue the kind of efficiency improvements they know are possible, then they wouldn’t need any new plants for 20 years, plus they could close down the coal-fired Meramec plant.
* Fukushima is an on-going catastrophe of so-far unknown dimensions. This is no time to be forging ahead with plans to build more reactors when we need to be assessing the safety of those that already exist, and coming up with sensible plans to store the thousands of tons of existing nuclear waste sitting in cooling pools.
* Nuclear energy is dirty, costly and dangerous, and I prefer investing in a clean energy future using a broad range of clean, renewable sources as well as investing in maximum efficiency.
* I don’t support a kind of energy future that puts all of the risk on ratepayers and taxpayers, while giving all the profits to Ameren.
Be polite and, if you would, report the replies you get back to MSE.
PLEASE CALL TODAY OR TOMORROW, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE!
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Posted May 2nd, 2011 at 1:37 am by Mark