Political Quotes

“this demonstrates the difficulty that the States in the United States of America are facing. You have a beautiful State, the green State of Vermont; over 80 percent of its energy comes from nuclear. I think the folks in Vermont want to have a solution. I do not think Vermont wants to face brownouts from a power supply. I do not think the people of Connecticut want to face brownouts; Connecticut, which has 74.1 percent of its nuclear energy or energy coming from nuclear. You have the Governors of these States--in the State of Florida, Lawton Chiles sent a letter to Senators Graham and Mack, and he said: Florida ratepayers have paid more than $397.4 million into the Nuclear Waste Fund for use by the Department of Energy in managing the spent fuel from Florida's five nuclear powerplants. In spite of these continuing payments from the citizens of Florida, the DOE is still unable to meet its statutory obligations. In fact, Florida, along with numerous other State utility commissions and attorneys general, have sued the DOE over its failure to meet its legal obligations. Continuing: A centralized interim storage facility is the only way the DOE will be able to meet its responsibility to begin accepting spent fuel on time, and prevent the creation of three interim storage sites in Florida. That is from Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Democrat. This is not a partisan issue by any stretch of the imagination.”