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Has the MIT Energy Initiative been captured by natural gas industry money?

…ring research and education. Just in case you do not follow the link on Ed Markey’s name, let me make it clear that Rep. Markey has a strong relationship with the natural gas industry. His congressional district hosts the oldest liquified natural gas import terminal in the United States. The facility started operating a few years before Markey was first elected to Congress in 1976 and it has prospered for the past three decades, partially as a res…

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Greg Jaczko is continuing his career as an international promoter of natural gas

…his research into the low energy behavior of baryons and mesons. By 1999, Markey had already spent more than 20 years in Congress helping the natural gas industry to expand its already lucrative markets in New England. He performed that constituent service (Markey’s congressional district was the home of the only LNG importer that functioned in the US during the 1980s and 1990s) by doing everything in his power as a congressman to slow or stop th…

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Jaczko’s Antinuclear Pursuits Will Seek Other Venues

…e, is the fact that Jaczko’s other mentor in Washington, Representative Ed Markey, has built his 30 plus year career in Congress on a much broader antinuclear platform. He has been extremely active in opposition to nuclear energy since being elected in the mid 1970s. It is my theory that Markey’s antinuclear activism, which contributed to the early retirement of several nuclear plants in New England, has something to do with the fact that his dist…

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Nuclear energy advocate in a nuclear nonproliferation crowd

…key. Regular Atomic Insights readers will recall numerous posts describing Markey as someone with deep and consistent involvement with the antinuclear movement. Aside: Senator Markey took the time out of an apparently busy schedule to drop by Sokolski’s seminar and said a few words about his long involvement in nuclear nonproliferation. There was some joking about the fact that many of the people in the room, including Senator Markey, think of him…

Knee jerk reactions lead to costly regulations without benefit

…ent story by Hank Silverberg of WTOP in Washington, DC. But Congressman Ed Markey (D – Mass.), a nuclear power watchdog, says the quake in Virginia “was a wake-up call to stop delaying the implementation of stricter safety standards.” I used to listen to Hank regularly when I commuted back and forth from Annapolis to Washington. I thought he might be receptive, so I wrote him a quick note. I saw an article on WTOP.com that you wrote about Represen…

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Jaczko apologizes for distraction and implies he has been the victim of a coup

…Senator Vitter asks Jaczko about a report issued by Congressman Ed Markey. Markey is one of the only two bosses that Greg Jaczko had before he was appointed to be a commissioner on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after an intense period of political maneuvering by his second boss, Senator Harry Reid. Here is a link to Markey’s report titled Regulatory Meltdown: How Four Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners Conspired to Delay and Weaken Nuclear React…

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Atomic Insights Radar July 20-26 2014

…Boxer, Senator Ed Markey, and Michael Mariotte of NIRS.’ Henry Waxman, Ed Markey! You have to ask yourself, why keep appointing enemies of nuclear power to the NRC … and the answer seems obvious. Son gave up on getting a position in the nuclear power industry. Recently graduated with a ChemE + ‘focus’ (minor) in Nuclear Engineering. Got a job as a ChemE. Looking at something like this, it’s hard to argue it was a bad decision. David Walters I t…

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Bipartisan pro-nuclear love fest at Senate EPW hearing

…nuclear energy’s emission free, high quality, dependable power. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), an aging antinuclear politician who has been scheming since 1976 to add as many burdens on nuclear power plant owners as possible, devoted his allotted time to taking credit for post 911 changes in nuclear plant security requirements that result in hugely expensive “force on force” monitored exercise requirements. He stated that he drafted those requirements…

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Georgia residents may pay for Jaczko’s antinuclear behavior

…ch and deconstructed the breathless press release issued by Representative Markey, the ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources claiming that “renewables” had produced more energy for the US during the first three months of 2011 than nuclear fission had produced. Representative Markey should come to Washington State and talk to our politicians and citizens here. The “renewables” mandate forced onto the power utilities in this sta…

If Waste to Energy and Biofuels Qualify as "Renewable" Heat Sources for Steam Plants, Recycled Uranium and Thorium Based Fuels Should Also Qualify

Yesterday during mark up on the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, Rep Cliff Stearns of Florida offered an amendment that would have included power produced in nuclear power plants in the computation as an approved source of emission free electricity to meet a proposed renewable energy standard. The committee rejected the amendment. According to Reuters, Henry Waxman argued against the amendment with the following logic: Waxman argued that the bi…

Jaczko comes out as avowed antinuclear activist

…e chose to work for the most antinuclear congressman in the House, Rep. Ed Markey. After three years with Markey, Jaczko marked time for a few months with a Senate staff and then began serving his current patron, Senator Harry Reid, as a “science advisor”. His main assignment was to halt all progress on the Yucca Mountain waste facility; Senator Reid had promised his campaign contributors in Las Vegas that he would not allow that facility to opera…

Platts Energy Week Discusses Jaczko’s odd announcement about reactor safety

…ns, he proceeded immediately to Washington, DC to join the staff of Rep Ed Markey, a man who has consistently opposed nuclear energy ever since his first election in 1976. Greg Jaczko served on Markey’s staff for 18 months (6/99 – 12/2000) on the Professional Staff Committee on Environment and Public Works (3/2001 – 8/2001) and on the staff of Senator Harry Reid (8/2001-1/2005). In January 2005 he was appointed to be a commissioner on the Nuclear…

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