Cenk Uygur
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Solar Supporters Being Duped By Utility Companies
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October 22, 2016
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5:11Now PlayingUtility companies in Florida are teaming up to screw solar power supporters. John Iadarola and R.J. Eskow, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“TALLAHASSEE
The policy director of a think tank supported by Florida’s largest electric utilities admitted at a conference this month what opponents have claimed for months: The industry attempted to deceive voters into supporting restrictions on the expansion of solar by shrouding Amendment 1 as a pro-solar amendment.
Sal Nuzzo, a vice president at the James Madison Institute in Tallahassee, detailed the strategy used by the state’s largest utilities to create and finance Amendment 1 at the State Energy/Environment Leadership Summit in Nashville on Oct. 2.
Nuzzo called the amendment, which has received more than $21 million in utility industry financing, “an incredibly savvy maneuver” that “would completely negate anything they (pro-solar interests) would try to do either legislatively or constitutionally down the road,” according to an audio recording of the event supplied to the Herald/Times.”
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Hosts: John Iadarola, R.J. Eskow
Cast: John Iadarola, R.J. Eskow
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