Mills closing

SwampDonkey · June 30, 2024, 08:11:53 AM

Several government elections have passed here with rate increases moving slower than costs. Now it is time to pay the piper when everything else is climbing fast. Of course the current man gets all the blame, when the lot were all a part of it. We have a regulator that approves increases, with all the politics there is foot dragging, but it is inevitable rates will jump. Part of added cost is on poor performing or unproven technology, lets just call experiments. One thing that is cosistant, government will burn through money on any scheme that takes a good snake oil salesman to sell. Most politicians and many advisors have no clue of the science.

Magicman · June 30, 2024, 08:45:20 AM

I once toured new wood pellet mill that had cost mega dollars to build. The manager told us that it simple could not operate without subsidy dollars. I knew that it was true, but I was standing there in disbelief that he was actually admitting it to a Forestry Ass'n tour group.

SwampDonkey · June 30, 2024, 09:53:34 AM

One scheme here is government paying a provider 7 cents a kwh, meanwhile charging 4 cents for it's own as a kickback to power their pulp mill. Anyone that wants me to believe that isn't subsidy had better try a lot harder than that.

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