VA Rep. Boucher (D) trying to gut Climate Legislation

[kristopher]

Boucher wants this change because it will allow the utilities to keep operating in a 'business as usual' fashion for a very long time. By giving the credits to the utilities instead of auctioning them off they would be, in effect, removing most of the cost of burning carbon from the balance sheet for the utilities. Not to mention the massive loss of tax revenue.

Democratic Group Wants Utilities to Get Pollution Credits Free

By Daniel Whitten

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- A group of Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee want to give utilities free permits for all their existing carbon emissions, according to people familiar with a plan sent to the committee’s chairman.

Representative Rick Boucher of Virginia sent the four-page list of recommendations to Henry Waxman, the committee’s chairman and the author of draft climate-change legislation that some of his fellow Democrats are seeking to temper, said the people, who declined to be identified before the plan is made public. Courtney Lamie, Boucher’s spokeswoman, didn’t respond to e-mail and phone messages.

Waxman’s measure would establish a cap-and-trade system of pollution credits designed to cut carbon dioxide 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. He needs to win the support of Boucher and the other Democrats pushing for changes in his plan because no Republicans are likely to vote for it, Representative Gene Green, a Texas Democrat, said yesterday. ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aYYkgNJB0to8&refer=home

[pleah]

1. Wonder how much money Doucher got from the big utilities?

Time to bombard him with emails telling him to protect the people and the environment, not the utilities.


Name mis-spelled on purpose.

[Jane Austin]

2. Boucher's from Southwest Virginia - a very conservative area

which is adjacent to Republican East Tennessee.

Southwest Virginia is known as The Coalfields.

Unfortunately, he's representing his people.

[pleah]

4. Yeah, I know, I grew up in that kind of area.

Have family members that work in the mines. I know and went to school with people killed in the mines.

I still think it stinks.

spelling:eyes:

[HillbillyBob]

5. No he is not representing the people,

He is representing the mine owners..big difference.
I grew up in mining country of WV, it always pisses me of that these a holes represent the wealthy energy company owners and to hell with the voters.

[NC_Nurse]

3. F*ck that.

[excess_3]

6. North v. South regional economic warfare

the North wants energy for air conditioning
to be taxed.
The South does not.

get used to this type of dispute,
cuz this is what the future is about