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Five Iowa Towns Rejected For Proposal To Create Own Utilities
CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) - State regulators have rejected requests from five Iowa towns to create their own municipal electric utilities.
Eastern Iowa towns include Kalona and Wellman, plus Rolfe, Terril and Everly. The Iowa Utilities Board voted Tuesday that it is not in the public interest for the towns to create their own utilities. The vote came after Alliant Energy and MidAmerican Energy fought the request before the board. Alliant owns Interstate Power & Light, the electric supplier in the towns. Tom Aller, president for Interstate Power & Light, says the vote will protect residents from greater financial uncertainty. He says municipalizing the utilities would have cost the towns too much. |
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Wednesday, May 14 at 4:35 PM BR wrote ...
Of course....too many taxes lost. "not in the public interest for the towns to create their own utilities" - more like the utilities board doesn't want to start losing money right and left if it actually WORKED. After all, it might catch on. Would have cost too much? The WIND and SOLAR...?? HA HA - what a joke. Renewable cost effective energy out the window. Sounds like the Utilities board and Culver are pals!
Wednesday, May 14 at 4:00 PM Whisky_NW wrote ...
KN, there are plenty of fossil fuel supplies, enough to last hundreds of years. Wind & Solar are over rated. Nuclear is the way of the future, but we haven't built a new nuke plant in decades due to liberals crying about risks. The naked truth is that, with the exception of Three Mile Island, there has never been a nuclear accident on American soil. Also, there is more forest land in North America today than there was when Columbus landed in 1492. Forest management works. Have a nice day.
Wednesday, May 14 at 2:00 PM KN wrote ...
so much for wind and solar power for the small towns. Alliant and Mid American need to be more flexible or we will all have much larger issues in the future when there is to much demand and not enough supply for the fossil fuels and we will all have to find a way to make the wind and solar energy heat our homes or go back to firewood. oh wait we wont have enough trees left either.
Wednesday, May 14 at 12:35 PM Heck no! wrote ...
Alliant and Mid American would be out lots of money. It's a monopoly.
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