Florida’s Public Service Commission (PSC) today fast-tracked a provision allowing Florida Power and Light to charge customers in advance for nuclear power that may never produce any energy. Florida’s Advanced Nuclear Cost Recovery law allows the utilities to charge customers, in advance, for nuclear power plants that may never be built. But this time the…
Florida Politic has covered, quite extensively, the fledgling nuclear power industry in Florida. We talked about how the utilities that want to build nuclear power plants cannot guarantee how much they will cost or when they will be completed. Cost estimates for new nuclear power plants continue to rise with no end in sight so…
[Ron Cunningham writes in a special to the Ocala Star Banner published September 22, 2013] “Always there was the lake. It gave those who settled around it water for their homes and … fish for their tables … Shaped like a giant frying pan, only 20 feet deep at the most, it appeared generous and…
It is time to stop Florida’s nuclear tax and replace the Public Service Commission. On this blog, we have covered the poor safety and high costs of Florida’s nuclear power plants. We explained how Florida’s Turkey Point nuclear plant’s upgrade project was on a “runaway course of its own,” with costs having increased more than…
There are 13 bridges in Florida that are designated structurally deficient and/or fracture critical. Every day, thousands of Floridians cross over these dangerous bridges. One of the bridges is over 90 years old and another carries an average of over 33,000 cars every day. Nationwide, there are about 77,000 structurally deficient bridges and 18,000 fracture…
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