He works for Georgia Power. Georgia Power wants to build two new nuclear plants, which the Public Service Commission is considering allowing them to do and then get those costs back from those than consume power.
But Georgia Power has told Sen. Don Balfour to circumvent the process by pushing a bill through the legislature saying they can make you pay for the reactors to be built, and by YOU I mean small home consumers, not larger consumers of powers like textile mills and Walmarts. From Political Insider:
But as unveiled, the Georgia Power bill sponsored by Senate Rules Chairman Don Balfour has this line: “These financing costs shall be recovered from each customer through a separate rate tariff and allocated on an equal percentage basis to standard base tariffs which are designed to collect embedded capacity costs.”
Translated into English, this means: “Large industrial and commercial plants – whether a Kia auto plant or a big box Wal-Mart – shall not be charged – much – for this adventure. Not in advance. Instead, the burden will fall on small businesses and homeowners who are much likely to shell out money for trouble-making lobbyists.”
Don Balfour, looking out for corporate lobbyists, not people.
Or maybe he just likes giant fish:
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