2014 SC Senate debate: on Energy & Oil


Tim Scott: No subsidies for wind and solar

Question topic: Governments should pay to develop wind and solar energy solutions when these are not economically feasible.

Scott: Disagree

Source: Faith2Action iVoterGuide on 2014 South Carolina Senate race Sep 30, 2014

Lee Bright: No subsidies for wind and solar

Question topic: Governments should pay to develop wind and solar energy solutions when these are not economically feasible.

Bright: Strongly Disagree

Source: Faith2Action iVoterGuide on 2014 South Carolina Senate race Jul 2, 2014

Joyce Dickerson: Open the Savannah River Site nuclear reactor fuel project

Two of the Democrats seeking to challenge U.S. Sen. Tim Scott pledged Thursday to work toward completing and keeping open a multibillion-dollar nuclear reactor fuel project at Savannah River Site, saying they wouldn't support the Obama administration's plans to shutter the facility. At a televised debate, both Joyce Dickerson and Harry Pavilack said the mixed-oxide fuel project needed to proceed because of the jobs it would bring to the state.

"In South Carolina, we are badly in need of jobs," said Dickerson. "Yes, I would be working very hard, and I would not do anything to halt it." That stance is the same as one taken by many Republicans in South Carolina, including Gov. Nikki Haley.

Part of a US-Russia nonproliferation agreement to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium, the plant has been slow to attract customers for the commercial reactor fuel it will produce. It is more than three years behind its 2016 completion deadline and is billions of dollars over budget.

Source: Augusta Chronicle on 2014 South Carolina Senate race May 29, 2014

Lee Bright: Deal with waste, to remove obstacles to new nuclear plants

Bright believes that South Carolina has several important national interests: one specific includes the Savannah River Site and the Port of Charleston. Bright alleges that the federal government has failed "to fulfill its legal obligations under the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act" which is "an ongoing obstacle to expanding additional nuclear plants." As senator, Bright will advocate completion of this project.
Source: Edgefield Advertiser on 2014 South Carolina Senate race Oct 29, 2013

Rick Wade: V.P. of GreenTech Automotive, the "green car" company

Rick Wade is an exceptionally busy man. The former Obama cabinet official helped run the president's latest campaign while simultaneously serving as a Democratic Party executive and vice president of GreenTech Automotive, the "green car" company owned by Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Besides Wade, the venture has attracted other high-profile political insiders: Bill Clinton appeared at a company launch party. Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham runs the firm's foreign-investor outreach. Former Republican National Committee chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour used a mix of grants and tax holidays to persuade McAuliffe to build GreenTech in Mississippi.
Source: Human Events magazine on 2014 South Carolina Senate race Apr 24, 2013

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Candidates and political leaders on Energy & Oil:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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