{"id":24406,"date":"2017-06-02T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24406"},"modified":"2017-06-02T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:48:45","slug":"psc-confirmation-hearing-offers-new-york-state-senators-opportunity-to-demand-answers-and-changes-to-cuomos-clean-energy-standard-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24406\/psc-confirmation-hearing-offers-new-york-state-senators-opportunity-to-demand-answers-and-changes-to-cuomos-clean-energy-standard-boondoggle\/","title":{"rendered":"PSC Confirmation Hearing Offers New York State Senators Opportunity to Demand Answers and Changes to Cuomo’s “Clean Energy Standard” Boondoggle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since its inception last August, CFIF has been exposing<\/a> New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s crony-capitalist, costly, climate alarmist “Clean Energy Standard” (CES) boondoggle imposed by the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) composed entirely of his personal appointees.<\/p>\n

Now, there’s a perfect opportunity for state senators to hold Cuomo accountable and expose for state residents the unfairness, expense and tawdry cronyism of the entire crumbling program.<\/p>\n

By way of refresher, Cuomo’s CES scheme mandates that fully half of all state energy be generated by carbon-neutral plants in just over a decade. \u00a0The cost? \u00a0A whopping $1 billion in just its first two years, and $8 billion over its entire term. \u00a0And how is it a perfect example of crony capitalism, which can rot our democratic process? \u00a0Well, because the CES plan’s subsidies will go to a single company named Exelon, which owns financially unsustainable upstate nuclear plants. \u00a0The plan is so objectionable that opposition has been fierce and bipartisan, with environmental groups attacking it<\/a> as an “$8 billion bailout of three upstate nuclear power plants.”<\/p>\n

Strong stuff.<\/p>\n

Next week, however, Cuomo’s nominee for new PSC chairman, John Rhodes,\u00a0will appear<\/a> before the state senate’s energy committee as part of his confirmation process. \u00a0At that hearing, state senators must hold Cuomo accountable for the CES’s runaway costs to taxpayers, get answers regarding the plan’s failures and demand a commitment to reverse or at least confine costs to areas of the state in which the relevant plants are situated. \u00a0Additionally, senators can ask on behalf of taxpayers how it’s remotely fair for residents of Long Island to pay for plants like Shoreham located six or more hours away without burden-sharing from the remainder of the state. \u00a0It makes no sense in terms of fairness, cost or efficiency.<\/p>\n

Less than a year into this boondoggle, the CES plan is already collapsing<\/a>. \u00a0Accordingly, state senators should get to the core of the problem, demand answers and require mitigation of damages. \u00a0Because state taxpayers who will pay the price are watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since its inception last August, CFIF has been exposing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s crony-capitalist, costly, climate alarmist “Clean Energy Standard” (CES) boondoggle imposed by the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) composed entirely of his personal appointees. Now, there’s a perfect opportunity for state senators to hold Cuomo accountable and expose for state residents the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4441,195,560,4913,4912],"class_list":["post-24406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cuomo","tag-energy","tag-new-york","tag-psc","tag-public-service-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24408,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions\/24408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}