GOP House member presses wrong button and Sununu veto is overridden with no votes to spare

[TexasTowelie]

CONCORD — A fierce lobbying campaign by wood energy advocates had the desired effect on Thursday, as lawmakers in the House and Senate voted to override Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of a bill designed to help sustain the state’s six wood-burning power plants and the forestry industry.

The governor’s veto of a bill to encourage large-scale solar energy projects for businesses and municipalities was upheld.

Sununu vetoed the two renewable energy bills in June, citing their cost to electric ratepayers and stating they’d send New Hampshire “in exactly the wrong direction.”

Senate Bill 365 requires Eversource and other utilities to pay above-market rates to the state’s six biomass (wood-burning) power plants, the cost of which is passed along to consumers in their electric bills.

Read more: http://www.unionleader.com/state-government/gop-house-member-presses-wrong-button-and-sununu-veto-is-overridden-with-no-votes-to-spare-20180913

[Sedona]

1. Wait what?

People are burning trees to make electricity in the 21st century? WTF?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Conflicted artice - "voted to override" while veto was "upheld" WTF?

Sustainable renewable biomass is big in New England. Wood scrub to steam. I had no idea there were actual wood-burning power plants anywhere. Usually it's some guy with a pellet stove. As long as it's renewable, seems a shame to let all that wood go to waste. In 10-15 years wood rots anyway, and it always grows back.

[flotsam]

3. This is bullshit

There's been a huge advertising push on facebook. The override gives 20 million in subsidies to a failed business model at the expense of the ratepayers. Republicans love small government that's just big enough to bribe their cronies...

[ProfessorPlum]

4. It's too bad they didn't override his veto of the solar bill

We need more sun power, and fast.