Charlie Copeland is a liar and Delmarva toady
What a bunch of bullshit.
Maria Evans does a great job teasing out Copeland on his various lies and red herrings.
COME CLEAN COPELAND AND SHOCK THE WORLD!!!
It is sickening the way Copeland hides behind the “I have a solar panel on my roof” bullshit. This guy is a total fraud. I can’t wait for his role in all off this to come out so he can slink off the public stage in shame like some kind of sober version of John Atkins.
I mean, honestly. Copeland’s crybaby “it was not me..” and his “I had concerns” crap is is getting unbearable. for a guy who made such a big stink about “OPEN GOVERNMENT” he is pretty hush hush about his roll in the September decsion to undercut the PSC.
Wind power may be trendy but it could turn into a costly boondoggle and cost the ratepayers dearly.
It is a bigger joke than ethanol as a major fuel source.
If the concept was economically viable, investors would be putting up cash.
The new-Luddites ruined the efforts to build more nuclear power plants and we are paying the price. Then again, what can we expect from technological illiterates who believed that “China Syndrome” was a documentary.
That has to be THEE dumbest comment ever brother Artie.
Ever hear of Chernobyl? 3-Mile Island?
With all the new technologies emerging now (and you’re right ethanol is a joke) it is the Luddites who want to throw back to the most dangerous and costly power generation method in human history – nuclear fission.
You have to be ef’ing kidding if you think nuclear is not the most expensive energy conceivable. Your problem is you believe the hogwash that radioactive waste can be cheaply swept under the rug for, oh I don’t know, say 10000 years. Yeah that’s really cheap…that is, if they can ever figure out a way to actually do it.
People like you just don’t give a rat’s ass what happens to posterity after your sorry ass returns to planetary dust. Fortunately others do.
So how about you take your fuel rods and find a nice dark moist place to shove them.
Maria Evans did a great job. Copeland is all over the map trying to sound like he supports wind power while offering reasons why this particular deal is problematic. Here’s what he said last fall:
“We ought to let private investors compete against one another to get us the best price point and price stability. I think the marketplace would do that better than some regulatory regime.”
In other wards, we should be left to the risks of an unregulated energy market.
As for the comment that “if the concept was “economically viable, investors would be putting up cash,” actually investors have put up cash. Customers won’t pay until the juice starts flowing.
This is the Copeland who told the DSWA in Sunset review, how great it was that they ran like a corporation, in the black.
No shit, sherlock. The more that gets dumped, the more money they have to horde and the less they want to recycle so they can spend their hordes on revamping the cherry island landfill for 200 million.
Copeland didn’t ask DSWA about anything real and they hop, skipped and jumped out of Sunset Committee with nary a slap on the wrist.
SOME things don’t belong in the private, for-profit sector. Utilities, health care and waste comes to mind because for profit includes cutting corners.
Thanks to Charlie for sticking up for Delaware ratepayers and taxpayers and keeping union thugs from building these jokes out along our coast.
Hurricane, anyone?????
I look forward to seeing Delmarva deliver the renewable content required under law AND shoving it up the kazoo of these retarded spendmonkies who know nothing about energy markets.
Thanks for commenting Mrs. Copeland. But your little Charlie needs to man up.
Speaking of manning up…..how is good old limpdick Bruce Ennis and that open government bill?
What’s the promise of a Smyrna union thug worth?
(Nothing! It takes at least three union thugs to make one promise.)
That has to be THEE dumbest comment ever brother Artie.
Just how many lives were lost at Three Mile Island? Was there a measurable increase in radiation at the perimeter of the site?
Many years ago, when the ‘progressives’ were demonstrating against the domestic nuclear power industry, they were questioned as why they were not concerned about the Soviet nuclear power facilities. The answer was ‘the US nuclear power plants are driven by the profit motive while the Soviets are merely providing energy to their people. This argument was not raised after Chernobyl.
Note the safety record of our nuclear Navy.
Fear and ignorance has ruled.
Art’s comparison is a bit too simple.
The difference between 3 Mile Island, and Chernobyl, is not in how they were run. It was that we were lucky and they were not.
Art probably doesn’t remember the scenarios surrounding 3 Mile Island at the time. Most expected the core to drop down to the center of the earth. Only a crazy idea that just might work and we’re damned if we don’t try, succeeded.
It is the same difference as to whether the outfielder catches the ball flying to the fence, or not. The difference could be in a split misplaced second.
We were lucky. They were not. To assume we will always be lucky is simplistic and hard to defend.
Especially when you are defending something that has a half life of 10 to the 7th power, and can kill much longer than that.
Back to Wind: Charlie’s interview with Maria is evidence of two things. One, he was one of the prime reasons Bluewater failed to get Russ Larson’s vote, and two, he has begun to feel the heat…..
Keep the burner set to High.
Such Language Mrs. Copeland. I’m shocked.
I agree with you Kavips. His district might be Republican – but this naked rejection of the public will in favor of 20 peices of silver from Gary Stockbridge should keep him up at night.
Tis silly to look to nuclear power. We have been building up the Altantic seaboard and now the amount of potable water available is an issue.
Growth HAS TO BE CHECKED against resources. Water is also a limited resource and nuke power plants need billions of gallons of cool water to run.
Nuke plants costs billions each to make and god knows how much to maintain AND still face having catastrophic risks from accident or terror attack much less the problem of radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years into the future.
Still living in the 1970’s, Nancy?
Hey, Jackson Browne wears diapers now! How ya like dem apples?
While you guys were busy complaining about everything, European power systems greatly improved the technology of nuclear reactors. A modern plant can be designed to use less than 20% of the existing fuel used in American 1960’s era, and 10% of the fresh water.
Not only that, but they found a way to make sure the plant doesn’t melt down when union flunkies fall asleep at the controls!
At least Mrs. Copeland is funny.
I admire that in that in corporate PR flacks.
You haven’t addressed the obvious downside to nuclear, darling. Pray tell why not?
You don’t deny that nuclear power is the most expensive to build and maintain and that the industry had not answered the waste problem.
Now that we hear that the southeastern nuke plants are on shut down alert due to drought, we have to add cool water availability into the equation.