Exerpt from the Blog of Ga Rep. Alan Powell:

2009 will be remembered as the session when Georgia taxpayers and utility rate payers had to foot the bill for misplaced priorities and fiscal irresponsibility. If shifting more of the school tax burden to local property owners and ending the homeowner relief grants was not enough, the legislative majority found it necessary to allow Georgia Power to raise its customers’ rates to finance the construction of two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle, six years ahead of when they are scheduled to be up and running. The expansion is expected to cost $14 billion. I question the philosophy of paying for services not yet received to build plants that may not get built.

This action is of special concern to those of us who live in the Lake Hartwell area, because company officials have acknowledged this power plant expansion could actually double the consumption of water flow from the Savannah River, threatening Lake Hartwell’s water levels for years to come.

To read Alan Powell's Blog go to: http://peanutpolitics-keith.blogspot.com/2009/05/alan-powell-d-hartwell-of-hd-23-in-his.html