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With the state's final Comprehensive Energy Plan in its last phase, industry groups are making a final push for cheap, reliable energy.
In addition to submitting comments to the Department of Public Service, the Associated Industries of Vermont, the Vermont Energy Partnership and other business organizations held a press conference last week to get their point across.
Their main grievance: The plan focuses on climate change, renewable energy, and efficiency to such an extent that they have become goals in and of themselves.
“Our concern is with any framework for legislation or rules that will complicate things for the economy that will make energy more expensive, less reliable or otherwise raise obstacles to commerce,” said William Driscoll, vice president of Associated Industries of Vermont (AIV), which lobbies on behalf of industry and businesses in the state.
The Shumlin administration's signature “single-payer”-style health-care plan could save as much as $1.834 billion by 2020, according to a report released this month. That's the best-case scenario. Under more conservative estimates, the report from the Joint Fiscal Office and Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities. and Health Care Administration puts...
German environmental leaders are urging Vermont officials to follow their country's lead and drop nuclear power. In May, the German government announced plans to phase out all nuclear power plants by 2022. The decision came in the wake of mass anti-nuclear power protests across the country after the Fukushima...
