Dear Blog Readers: There has been no action on the HB 1072 Conference Committee since its initial meeting on 3/6/2012 while state legislators and the Daniels Administration discussed the tax credit for the Indiana Gasification, LLC SNG plant at Rockport, Indiana. Now with the alternative course of action outlined in
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Tax breaks for Rockport gas plant stripped; Indiana lawmakers say too many questions unanswered
Posted by Laura Arnold / February 23, 2012 / Posted in Uncategorized / No Comments
Original article: http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/feb/22/tax-breaks-rockport-gas-plant-stripped-bill-indian/ By Lesley Weidenbener / Special to the Evansville Courier & Press; Posted February 22, 2012 at 11:33 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS —Questions about a synthetic natural gas plant proposed for Southern Indiana led a House committee Wednesday to strip tax breaks for the $2.6 billion project from a bill
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Dear Readers, Kerwin Olson, Executive Director of the Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana (CAC) also testified at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing and essentially supported the testimony given by Vectren. The fact that CAC was supporting a position of an Indiana utility brought more than a few smiles and laughes
Read MoreIndy Star Columnist Dan Carpenter: “Spinning our own Solyndra in Indiana”
Original article: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011111270324 4:13 PM, Nov. 25, 2011 Written by Dan Carpenter The distinguished columnist George Will, a gushing admirer of our own Gov. Mitch Daniels, recently joined the conservative chorus denouncing the Obama administration's financial backing of the ill-fated Solyndra green-energy project. "Crony capitalism," he called it, noting that
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