Snowe and Collins Vote Down Welfare Checks for Wind Industry
Stabenow’s green energy tax break plan falls short
The Senate on Tuesday rejected plans to extend a host of lapsed or soon-to-expire tax breaks for renewable fuels and power sources.
Lawmakers voted 49-49 for Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-Mich.) amendment to transportation legislation, but 60 votes were needed for approval.
The vote signals political hurdles facing advocates of green energy tax breaks, notably the production tax credit for wind power projects that's expiring at year's end, an incentive that's crucial to financing new development.
The number of new wind projects brought online has dropped sharply when the credit has been allowed to lapse in the past.
Stabenow’s plan would have also extended various incentives for energy efficient homes and appliances, plug-in vehicles, production of certain biofuels, and a program that provides grants in lieu of tax credits for renewable power, among others.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/215791-stabenows-green...
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From: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vot...
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress - 2nd Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
| Question: On the Amendment (Stabenow Amdt. No. 1812 As Modified ) | |||
| Vote Number: | 39 | Vote Date: | March 13, 2012, 02:49 PM |
| Required For Majority: | 3/5 | Vote Result: | Amendment Rejected |
| Amendment Number: | S.Amdt. 1812 to S. 1813 (MAP-21) | ||
| Statement of Purpose: | To prevent a tax increase on American businesses and to provide certainty to job creators by extending certain expiring tax credits relating to energy. | ||
| Vote Counts: | YEAs | 49 |
| NAYs | 49 | |
| Not Voting | 2 |
| YEAs ---49 | ||
| Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Blumenthal (D-CT) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Conrad (D-ND) Coons (D-DE) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) |
Gillibrand (D-NY) Hagan (D-NC) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) |
Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
| NAYs ---49 | ||
| Alexander (R-TN) Ayotte (R-NH) Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Brown (R-MA) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Enzi (R-WY) |
Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Heller (R-NV) Hoeven (R-ND) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (R-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Lee (R-UT) Lugar (R-IN) Manchin (D-WV) McCain (R-AZ) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) |
Murkowski (R-AK) Paul (R-KY) Portman (R-OH) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rubio (R-FL) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Snowe (R-ME) Thune (R-SD) Toomey (R-PA) Vitter (R-LA) Warner (D-VA) Webb (D-VA) Wicker (R-MS) |
| Not Voting - 2 | ||
| Hatch (R-UT) | Kirk (R-IL) | |
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Comment by Hart Daley on March 15, 2012 at 6:31pm
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I just finished sending my emails to all the US Senators who voted against the PTC extension! I am hoping an expression of gratitude from Maine will keep them fighting for all of us.
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Comment by Dudley G. Gray on March 15, 2012 at 5:47pm
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I suppose the PTC will rear its' ugly head at some time later. The Nat Gas Act, as an amendment failed as well. But it should be reintroduced as a stand alone measure without subsidy. The banks are loaded with cash let them lend the money to truckers,NG refueling station investors et. al. DGG
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Comment by DarrylMueller on March 15, 2012 at 1:16am
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What could you expect, D voted to extend misery, vote them out on November!
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Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on March 14, 2012 at 11:57am
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yeah yeah yeah!
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Comment by Long Islander on March 14, 2012 at 9:17am
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Hart - please see above. I just added this information to the post.
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Can anyone provide me with a link to find out what Senator's voted for and against? I want to send out an email expressing my gratitude on behalf of my family to those that helped defeat the PTC extension. Thanks in advance.
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Comment by freemont tibbetts on March 14, 2012 at 2:55am
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The CITIZEN"S have woken up our Big Gov. The CITIZEN"S will wake up our Small Gov. in Dixfield Maine.
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I tweeted back to DeMint Wind & Solar no subsides, that was at 12:49! Horray!
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Comment by Ellin Beltz on March 13, 2012 at 11:19pm
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This is great news!! Without these subsidies a lot of projects are just going to curl up and die. Just keep an eye out for extra attempts to slip this back into something, if not this year... next.
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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on March 13, 2012 at 10:47pm
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Any inquisitive and concerned reporter should ask Angus King and John Baldacci if they would have voted against the Production TaxCredit had they been senators today.
Monique Aniel
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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