"I believe [Dan McKee]’s going to roll back on a lot of these things because, honestly, I think he got some bad advice because the numbers don’t work," said IBEW Local 99's Joe Walsh.
I was at a hearing recently in front of Senators Rogers and De La Cruz. Niether have a clue. Not only is renewable energy cheaper than gas, but if we allow the roll back of clean energy standards and the Act on Climate we shall see Rhode Islanders become sicker, more heat deaths, and the disintegration of our economy. The only prosperous economic future for Rhode Island is a clean energy future in which we focus much more attention on climate and reduce inequality. Higher taxes on the rich and lower emissions are the way to go. That McKee is starting to listen to reason, and beginning to understand that he missed the boat on his executive order is a good thing. I do not think the budget is going to look like what he proposes, because what he proposes will destroy the economy.
I sure hope that Joe Walsh is correct that Governor McKee will see that he got bad advice and change this shirt-sighted proposal which, essentially, erases any chance we have at meeting the necessary goals to curb climate change.We need to be investing in affordable, clean, renewable energies. And that does not include nuclear as has slipped into the proposal as greenwashed “low-emission resource.” Instead of cutting investing in real renewables, we should be tripling our investment as they did in China where we saw in 2024 that their addition of wind and solar added enough electricity in 5 months to their grid that equaled what electricity was used in California that same year ( including nuclear!) We can get all the energy we need from wind and solar… we don’t need nuclear fission power with its radioactive nuclear waste!! Take nuclear out of this budget! Too expensive and too dangerous!! Costs billions!
I was at a hearing recently in front of Senators Rogers and De La Cruz. Niether have a clue. Not only is renewable energy cheaper than gas, but if we allow the roll back of clean energy standards and the Act on Climate we shall see Rhode Islanders become sicker, more heat deaths, and the disintegration of our economy. The only prosperous economic future for Rhode Island is a clean energy future in which we focus much more attention on climate and reduce inequality. Higher taxes on the rich and lower emissions are the way to go. That McKee is starting to listen to reason, and beginning to understand that he missed the boat on his executive order is a good thing. I do not think the budget is going to look like what he proposes, because what he proposes will destroy the economy.
Thank you, Greg.
I sure hope that Joe Walsh is correct that Governor McKee will see that he got bad advice and change this shirt-sighted proposal which, essentially, erases any chance we have at meeting the necessary goals to curb climate change.We need to be investing in affordable, clean, renewable energies. And that does not include nuclear as has slipped into the proposal as greenwashed “low-emission resource.” Instead of cutting investing in real renewables, we should be tripling our investment as they did in China where we saw in 2024 that their addition of wind and solar added enough electricity in 5 months to their grid that equaled what electricity was used in California that same year ( including nuclear!) We can get all the energy we need from wind and solar… we don’t need nuclear fission power with its radioactive nuclear waste!! Take nuclear out of this budget! Too expensive and too dangerous!! Costs billions!
I agree, especially about the nuclear component. Never nuclear. Nuclear waste never goes away and is never, ever safe.
THANK YOU!