{"id":91200,"date":"2009-12-20T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/20\/coalition-says-mn-climate-solution-includes-nukes\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T20:15:51","slug":"coalition-says-mn-climate-solution-includes-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91200","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Says MN Climate Solution Includes Nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2009\/12\/20090421_prairie_island_33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5061\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/planetsave\/files\/2009\/12\/20090421_prairie_island_33-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Prairie Island nuclear plant at Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.\u00a0 Nuclear power advocates want to repeal the state&#8217;s 15-year-old ban on new nuclear plants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The state that enacted one of the nation\u2019s most farsighted clean energy laws in 2007 may be a battleground over nuclear power in 2010.\u00a0 A coalition of interest groups wants to repeal Minnesota\u2019s 15-year-old moratorium on new nuclear plants. Like pro-nuke interests elsewhere, the Minnesota coalition is arguing that nuclear power is a clean solution to climate change problems.<\/p>\n<p>The 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextstep.state.mn.us\/res_detail.cfm?id=4034\" >Next Generation Energy Act<\/a> mandates that Minnesota generate 25% of its energy from renewable sources by 2025.\u00a0 It also sets a state goal to reduce electric demand 1.5% per year through efficiency and conservation programs. The law defines renewable sources as solar, wind, small hydro, hydrogen and biomass.<\/p>\n<p>But nuclear power advocates want to add nuclear energy to the mix. The so-called Sensible Energy Solutions for Minnesota <a href=\"http:\/\/nuclearstreet.com\/blogs\/nuclear_power_news\/archive\/2009\/08\/13\/coalition-wants-to-lift-minnesota-s-nuclear-ban-1852.aspx\" >says<\/a> it includes business, labor and environmental leaders, although no organized environmental groups support the repeal. A board member of SESM says calls nuclear \u201cthe most sensible and carbon-free base-load electricity source in existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/20\/coalition-says-mn-climate-solution-includes-nukes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=t8lsRUdq-B4:bG4rT91HDvk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=t8lsRUdq-B4:bG4rT91HDvk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=t8lsRUdq-B4:bG4rT91HDvk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=t8lsRUdq-B4:bG4rT91HDvk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=t8lsRUdq-B4:bG4rT91HDvk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=t8lsRUdq-B4:bG4rT91HDvk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=t8lsRUdq-B4:bG4rT91HDvk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/planetsave\/com\/~4\/t8lsRUdq-B4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prairie Island nuclear plant at Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.\u00a0 Nuclear power advocates want to repeal the state&#8217;s 15-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. The state that enacted one of the nation\u2019s most farsighted clean energy laws in 2007 may be a battleground over nuclear power in 2010.\u00a0 A coalition of interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}