Press Mention WMNF 88.5 FM Community Radio, Tampa March 12, 2009
SACE Quoted
SACE will lobby Legislators for clean renewable energy
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SACE is leading environmental groups in lobbying the Florida Legislature to prevent nuclear power from being included in the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard. Nick Algee, a SACE Florida Organizer, announced citizen lobby days scheduled for March 16-17 in Tallahassee to advocate for clean energy and protect Florida's renewable energy future. The effort aims to preserve the RPS definition of 'renewable' energy and prevent utilities from substituting the word 'clean,' which some argue would include nuclear power.
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SACE will lobby Legislators for clean renewable energy listen
03/13/09 Seán Kinane
WMNF Evening News Friday
During this session, the Florida Legislature is likely to mandate that electricity companies generate a portion of their energy using renewable sources. But there is an effort to alter the Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS, to replace the word "renewable," which does not apply to nuclear power, to the word "clean" which some advocates say does include nuclear power.
Next week, environmental groups, led by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, will lobby legislators in Tallahassee to keep nuclear energy out of the RPS.
Yesterday, WMNF spoke with Nick Algee, who is with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and a Florida Organizer with 1Sky: "We are going to be helping citizens lobby Tallahassee. So essentially it's a citizen lobby day [advocating for] clean energy and protecting Florida's renewable energy future."