Harris McDowell & Thurman Adams (Who are Openly Working for Delmarva Power) Have a Sneaky Plan
The opponents of offshore wind power in Delaware are scrambling to make it look like they’re actually in favor of renewable energy. The News Journal reports that they’ve hit on a diversionary tactic to make it look like they might actually consider doing something:
On Friday, [Sen. Harris] McDowell announced that three senators had asked him to schedule hearings to look at all of the state’s options for “affordable, environmentally friendly energy,” including on-shore wind. Those senators were [Thurman] Adams, Majority Leader Anthony DeLuca, D-Newark East, and Majority Whip Patricia Blevins, D-Elsmere.
So what do you do if you’re a legislator who fervently opposes the Bluewater Wind agreement, but still wants to look like a proponent of renewable energy? You hold hearings about somebody else, somewhere else, doing something else, some other time.
it is sad to see other Democrats dragged into this farce by the truly excreble McDowell and Adams.
You can all people all the names you want.
Bluewater is dead. They will never build anything in Delaware because they are scam artists.
Get competitive bids for the same project and you will personally want to punch Bluewater’s prez in the face for trying to steal your money.
Even if it were true, FKid, it doesn’t excuse the behavior by McDowell et al. They put through a lousy law to deflect anger at dereg, now they don’t want to follow that law but also don’t want to stand up and say so. You can trash Bluewater all you want. Consider the behavior of the people “we” elected and you will personally want to punch them in the face…or does that only apply to the people you want to see punched?
By the way, anything you want to write to back up your bold words would be appreciated.
If Tyler Nixon or Charles Potter Jr had won the McDowell seat, we wouldnt be having this conversation.
Any legislator who has even one stock in DP&L should recuse themselves from voting on wind power..or anything to do with power in this State! We the citizens should demand of them regardless of their party.
McDowell, DeLuca, and Adams…
If only Moe, Larry, and Curly were ever so buffoonerish.
(…and featuring Blevins as Curly Joe…)
“If Tyler Nixon or Charles Potter Jr had won the McDowell seat, we wouldnt be having this conversation.”
Yes we would. What makes you think McDowell is the only Delmarva flunky in the General Assembly?
I’m sorry….did you not realize this was all a deregulation blame dance?
Did you really think Delaware was aiming for the future?
Awwwwwwww…..that’s so CUTE!!!!!!!
Bluewater is still sh.t, and anyone lapping them up is a felcher.
They put through a lousy law to deflect anger at dereg, now they don’t want to follow that law but also don’t want to stand up and say so
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this is the truth in spades
Liz,
some of this must be about personal investments seeing as how PEPCO-related stockholders are bound to see that investment’s projections fall flat or worse.
I would also wonder about some of the investment in DP&L that might involve state pension funds or perhaps the UD endowment billions.
For the record, we have already determined that FeralKid is Gary Stockbridge… Pointy teeth and all.
I should point out that the above comment is snark, I think…
Either way, you’ll be sucking coal dust if you don’t hop off of Bluewater’s johnson.
Find another vendor, or shut the hell up.
FK, Please put up or shut up with regard to bad-mouthing Bluewater. You seem to imply all sorts of bad things, but your credibility is in the crapper. If you have actual evidence to back up you claims, bring it. Otherwise, you STFU.
I bad mouth anyone getting a no-bid deal.
If Bluewater was economically viable, there would be no need to legally force customers to buy it’s cheaper electrical power. Basic market forces would achieve that goal.
Get government in the act, and utility companies could well be passing overpriced power to their customer base. Who will get the blame?
Certainly not legislators who were out to promote the trend de jour.
If Bluewater was economically viable
No alternative energy is economically viable until it has broad adoption. It needs a good hard shove from government to become economically viable.
And the “no-bid” is bullshit. I suspect that you wouldn’t say a damn thing if NRG or Conectiv had gotten the deal, because there would be NO talk about the negotiations of the old boys network.
Wind uses a resource that isn’t variable in price, so the negotiations are for a price for energy for the next 20 years, come hell or high-water. The deal with NRG or Conectiv would have had no such lock-in. And if it did, it would have to be priced much higher than the current rate.
Get three bids, for the same number of windmills and infrastructure and time frame.
Otherwise, STFU.
I’ll all for wind if it works economically. I just don’t fancy the liberal reacharound being given to a company that has NEVER done an Atlantic off-shore wind project!!!!!!
The door was open for any number of companies to bid on whatever energy source they wanted to provide. The usual suspect made the same old proposal for burning stuff to make things turn. NRG could have easily made the same proposal, but they want to poison the air and let those costs trickle down to us. Conectiv could have done it, but they want to burn natural gas (and the price of that is soooo stable).
So are you telling me that the whole “entrepreneurial spirit” thing is BS? If someone comes in and says that they can do it for a fixed cost for the next 20 years if you agree to buy the power, shouldn’t we take it?
You obviously have some sort of derangement that makes you ignore the situation at hand and an inability to allow the free market to make some decisions. You would be bitching and moaning about how inappropriate it was if the legislature had solicited a bid for off-shore windpower. They asked for people to come up with their best ideas and present them. Bluewater seems to be the only bidder that actually put any real thought into their bid and you aren’t satisfied.
You are a pathetic excuse for a citizen.
Don’t hurt’em, Geek!
I think the issue is that the Bluewater proposal was the most expensive of all the options.
How did it then get picked?
I agree. If wind power is the desired supply, then there should be competing bids for that specific method alone.
Selecting the method of power generation should have been accomplished by consultants, not providers.
If you ask for transportation options and one company suggests a walking path, another suggests a biking path, and the last suggests building a train, do you buy their train without trying to appropriately price it against similar options?
Apples, oranges, bananas. Pick which one you like, then find the best deal.
The remaining issue is not the viability of BlueWater or wind power but how to “share” the costs.
Delaware COOP is vehemently against having their customers share these costs.
Price stability for 25 years and reduced pollution are great facts to have on the side of wind power.
Al Masciti and Liberal Geek are correct in their earlier comments on bids and influence.
Anyone notice that two people with unknown names are suddenly advocating exactly the same fringe position — we should get competing wind-farm bids? This was nobody’s position except Delmarva/Pepco’s.
FeralKid = Gary Stockbridge’s bastard son. Hey, you’re getting a better class of troll!
Okay, we’ll just kill the entire deal back room style.
Suck on that CO2, baby!!!
Either bid the project, or watch it die with prejudice toward the next liberal knob-gobbling idea.
This project is dead in the water. It will never be built.
So many words and no links. I wonder why?
What do you want a link to?
How about anything to support any of your unfounded positions. Start with this one:
Bluewater is dead. They will never build anything in Delaware because they are scam artists.
You could then move along to a link supporting your idea of where this is a no-bid contract.