NEIS ACTION ALERT for Illinoisans: Exelon’s $1.6 Billion Bailout Up for a Vote – Say “NO!” to Bailouts

November 12, 2016
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NEIS ACTION ALERT for Illinoisans:

Exelon’s $1.6 Billion Bailout Up for a Vote – Say “NO!” to Bailouts

The Veto Session of the Illinois legislature begins this Tuesday, Nov. 15^th, and it is expected that Exelon’s $1.6 billion bailout bill – almost comically named “The Future Energy Jobs Bill” – will be voted on.  While the language of this Frankensteinian conglomeration of several pieces of previous legislation is still being discussed, enough of the “bads” are sure to remain in it to outweigh whatever “goods” might be promised (and then, at a later date, removed, sabotaged, “swept”, or ignored).  We ask you to say “NO!” to Exelon’s nuclear bailout bill.

The “bads” are expected to include:

• ·         A $1.6 billion bailout for three of Exelon’s money-losing reactors
• ·         ComEd’s universally unpopular “demand charge” way of billing customers
• ·         The elimination of solar “net metering” in its present form

The “bads” are all being sold to uninformed legislators as creating and preserving jobs, supporting (no joke!) renewable energy, and keeping electric rates “competitive.”

The facts are that, for three years, Exelon has worked in Illinois and nationally to promote three goals: 1.) bail out their money-losing nuclear plants at ratepayer expense; 2.) kill, marginalize or control renewable energy and energy efficiency; and 3.) maintain the current and anachronistic “big box” utility model where they remain in virtually monopolistic control.

No amount of beads and trinkets offered in exchange can compensate for the long-term damage to a renewable energy future their game plan will lock in place.

What you can do:

Contact your State Legislators with this message: Simply say NO to Exelon’s Nuclear Bailout!

• ·         NO bailouts for Exelon’s aging, money losing reactors
• ·         Fix the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), once and for all
• ·         Oppose ComEd’s  “demand charge” and monopolistic  community solar plan; and preserve solar net-metering
• ·         Support community created and controlled jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency
• ·         Enact a “just transitions” program for reactor communities and displaced workers;
• ·         Enact strong reactor decommissioning laws

To find out who your State Legislators are, click here:

http://www.elections.il.gov/districtlocator/addressfinder.aspx

and also call…

•           Governor Bruce Rauner   (312) 814-2121

•           House Speaker Michael Madigan   (217) 782-5350

•           Senate Pres. John Cullerton     (773) 883-0770

Feel free to circulate this Alert to others you know.  NEIS will be providing updates as the Veto Session progresses.  Thanks for all you do!

For more information, contact:  NEIS, neis@neis.org,  www.neis.org, (773)342-7650

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David A. Kraft, Director, NEIS, 3411 W. Diversey #16, Chicago, IL 60647

(773)342-7650

neis@neis.org

www.neis.org

SKYPE address:  davekhamburg

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Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).