http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/116180144.html
Please do research BEFORE commenting about subjects you know little or nothing about. The link above describes pretty well what is going on. The state disposing of many old EPA NON-COMPLIANT coal plants, retiring debt in the process, and getting the state OUT of the energy generating business, where it has no business.
The previous Doyle Administration had already decided to replace the UW coal plant with a HUGELY expensive biomass plant. Walker killed that as soon as he took office, saving the state 75MILLION $....
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency began an investigation to determine whether plants across the state at UW campuses and prisons were operating in violation of the Clean Air Act. In addition, new air pollution standards being implemented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to result in the need to for older coal-fired power plants in the state and around the country to add pollution controls or transition to run on cleaner-burning natural gas.
One year ago, the Doyle administration concluded that five more state-run power plants were violating federal clean air regulations, bringing the total number of plants violating the Clean Air Act to eight.
Similar findings contributed to plans to stop burning coal at the Charter Street heating plant that serves the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Doyle administration planned to replace coal with a combination of natural gas and biomass, but the Walker administration last month pulled the plug on the biomass portion of the project. That would result in net savings for taxpayers of about $75 million, according to the Department of Administration
Thanks so much for the education!
Knowing is half the battle!
Wow, thanks!
Thanks for your input regarding the story...
It’s a shame you’re also an a—hole. The gist of my comment was a question as to whether anyone in freeperland knew why they would want to sell assets without a bidding process. I didn’t know of any good reasons, so I asked. Some of the answers I’ve gotten (including yours) seem to make sense.
So follow your own advice and read things carefully BEFORE throwing out insults - they have a way of boomeranging.