Fred Stafford
@fredstaffordcs
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STEM professional on the Left, @thenation @jacobin @catalyst_theory @TheBTI contributor. @damagemag editor. Interested in decarb, electric power, labor.
fred@publicpowerreview.org
Joined January 2018
NEW from me, on Kathy Hochul's atomic abundance. Last month she made an exciting announcement of new nuclear development in New York State. Unlike other governors, she is directly appealing to state capacity - the public power authority, NYPA - to drive it. It's a big deal. 🧵1/.
Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can oversee is more important than building clean energy.
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Cuomo saddled her with closure of Indian Point nuclear plant and with CLCPA climate law, both pushed by enviros and raise prices across NY. Rather than kicking can down the road, Hochul is doing an admirable job pulling levers of the state to switch gears and push new nuclear.
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In my new article for Jacobin on her announcement of the NYS public power-led nuclear development, I make a case for Hochul as a liberal politician with a distinctly good message on energy, reindustrialization, and effectively wielding state capacity:
What happened to Hochul? She's eons better in policy & messaging than just a year ago.
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RT @AlexCKaufman: An absolutely stunning stat in @fredstaffordcs's must-read piece on NYPA nuclear plans . https://….
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RT @ZaidJilani: We had an event called 9/11 and we reacted nowhere near as shamefully. There was no starvation against civilians nor delibe….
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RT @fredstaffordcs: Greens: TVA is building a brand new gas plant at the site of the retired Johnsonville coal plant! STOP THEM!. MAGA, lyi….
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RT @EricLevitz: Great piece on New York's embrace of nuclear and the flaws in the mainstream environmentalist vision of decarbonizing the E….
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Come for the modern day politics of new nuclear development in New York State. Stay for the historical example of the ideological drivers behind the public sector building big things like nuclear. Peep that Robert Moses statement. 👇.
This isn't the first time NYPA has developed nuclear power. Former Chairman Robert Moses (yes him) was staunch political advocate for NYPA going nuclear, arguing state's private utilities were too slow, aiming too small, and too constrained by need for shareholder returns. 4/
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RT @IFPTE: Hands off of TVA! TVA and its Unionized workforce are perfectly capable of meeting the demands of new technologies, including S….
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RT @fredstaffordcs: This isn't the first time NYPA has developed nuclear power. Former Chairman Robert Moses (yes him) was staunch politica….
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