How interesting that Summit Natural Gas of Maine has asked the LePage-appointed public utilities commissioners for permission to pass on millions of dollars of advertising expenses to ratepayers (“Summit: Let customers pay for gas ‘education,’ “ Page A1, May 14).
Make big promises, and then pass the expenses on to the public when things don’t quite work out.
Remember when the nuclear industry told us about electricity that was going to be “too cheap to meter”? The general public is still on the hook for their waste stream.
Yet our governor wants to repeal Maine’s law that requires a public referendum on new nuclear power plants. How about a Fukushima-sized reactor in your backyard?
Not content with invoking the nuclear genie, LePage also seems bent on killing off Maine’s growing solar energy movement by revoking the current net metering law.
This is a technology that allows the harvest of clean, free energy from the sun and creates hundreds of jobs for skilled workers. Go figure.
Thomas Kircher
Biddeford
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