NuScale's NRC submittal was over 12,000 pages and cost of the entire process >$1 billion.
"Lawsuits have been weaponized" on both sides. There is no escaping "sue and settle" by environmental groups in that debate. Examples everywhere.
The existing laws aren't even being applied equally. Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and wind developers is only one example.
It's complicated. It requires balance. Everyone wants clean air, water, healthy ecosystems, reduced impact/unit of GDP, lower CO2 emissions/capita, etc.
Good stuff! We badly need permitting reform. America is not a museum.
Fossil fuel infrastructure is more complicated than it seems. Look at natural gas demand in New England. There's a shortage of infrastructure to bring gas from Pennsylvania. But New Englanders still need to heat their homes. So now we buy gas shipped from the Caribbean, at the Europe price. This drives up costs for everyone, and screws over poor people the hardest.
When we don't produce fossil fuels in the US, the demand doesn't go away. We just wind up importing it from abroad.
The only way to save the planet from climate change is to create abundant energy sources that don't emit GHGs, and can reliably meet society's energy needs 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year. Nuclear energy is the closest we've got. Now that's an area with serious permitting issues!
It's complicated.
NuScale's NRC submittal was over 12,000 pages and cost of the entire process >$1 billion.
"Lawsuits have been weaponized" on both sides. There is no escaping "sue and settle" by environmental groups in that debate. Examples everywhere.
The existing laws aren't even being applied equally. Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and wind developers is only one example.
It's complicated. It requires balance. Everyone wants clean air, water, healthy ecosystems, reduced impact/unit of GDP, lower CO2 emissions/capita, etc.
Good stuff! We badly need permitting reform. America is not a museum.
Fossil fuel infrastructure is more complicated than it seems. Look at natural gas demand in New England. There's a shortage of infrastructure to bring gas from Pennsylvania. But New Englanders still need to heat their homes. So now we buy gas shipped from the Caribbean, at the Europe price. This drives up costs for everyone, and screws over poor people the hardest.
When we don't produce fossil fuels in the US, the demand doesn't go away. We just wind up importing it from abroad.
The only way to save the planet from climate change is to create abundant energy sources that don't emit GHGs, and can reliably meet society's energy needs 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year. Nuclear energy is the closest we've got. Now that's an area with serious permitting issues!