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Minnesota House of Representatives Session Weekly February 16, 2007 SESSION WEEKLY A NONPARTISAN PUBLICATION MINNESOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES • PUBLIC INFORMATION SERVICES VOLUME 24, NUMBER 7 • FEBRUARY 16, 2007 WINDS OF CHANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY HONORING DUTY HF802- HF1062 SESSION WEEKLY Session Weekly is a nonpartisan publication of Minnesota House of Representatives Public Information Services. During the 2007-2008 Legislative Session, each issue reports House action between Thursdays of each week, lists bill introductions and provides other information. No fee. To subscribe, contact: Minnesota House of Representatives CONTENTS Public Information Services 175 State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. HIGHLIGHTS St. Paul, MN 55155-1298 Agriculture • 5 Elections • 9 Health & Human Services • 12 (651) 296-2146 or (800) 657-3550 or the Bioscience • 5 Employment • 9 Housing • 13 Minnesota Relay service at 711 or (800) 627-3529 (TTY) Bonding • 6 Energy • 10 Humanities • 13 www.house.mn/hinfo/subscribesw.asp Consumers • 6 Gambling • 10 Military • 13 Crime • 7 Game & Fish • 10 Taxes • 15 Education • 7 Greater Minnesota • 11 Transportation • 15 Director Barry LaGrave Editor/Assistant Director Lee Ann Schutz Assistant Editor BILL INTRODUCTIONS (HF802-HF1062) • 18 - 23 Mike Cook Art & Production Coordinator Paul Battaglia FEATURES Writers Nick Busse, Craig Green, FIRST READING: Cleaner energy — some say it’s too much, too soon • 3-4 Stephen Harding, Sonja Hegman, Patty Ostberg, Mia Simpson PROCESS: Committee deadlines set • 4 Chief Photographer PEOPLE: New members profiled: Berns and Gardner • 17 Tom Olmscheid FIFTY STATES: Politicians access Super Bowl tickets • 23 Photographers Andrew VonBank, Sarah Stacke MINNESOTA INDEX: The friendly skies • 24 Staff Assistants Christy Novak, Joan Bosard Session Weekly (ISSN 1049-8176) is published weekly during the legislative session by Minnesota House of Representatives Public Information Services, 175 State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55155-1298. Periodicals postage paid at Minneapolis, Minn. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Session Weekly, House Public Information Services, 175 State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55155-1298. Printed on recycled paper which is 50% recycled, 30% post-consumer content. On the cover: Lydia Johnson, 5, smiles as her mother, Carla Johnson, tells the House Early Childhood Learning Finance Division Feb. 13, about their experiences when they attended the District 197 Early Childhood Family Education program. —Photo by: Tom Olmscheid FIRST READING Winds of change Bill aims for cleaner energy; some say it’s too much, too soon PHOTO BY TOM OLMSCHEID Windmills along the Buffalo Ridge region in Southwestern Minnesota. BY NICK BUSSE ccording to Rep. Aaron Peterson (DFL-Appleton), the climate has Achanged — at the Capitol, that is. Peterson said he’s been working to enact a renewable energy standard for Minnesota since he was first elected in 2002. For four years, he was out of luck. But with new leadership at the House and Gov. Tim Pawlenty publicly supporting an aggressive renewable energy package, he’s confident this will be the year. “I’ve seen it turn. This used to be the ‘bad my generation and those to follow, to take standards can sell credits to companies that bill.’ Nobody wanted to do it,” Peterson aggressive positions on technologies that are don’t. said. doable, that have been done, and can be done The Senate passed the bill 61-4 on Feb. 7. It HF4/SF4, which Peterson sponsors along aggressively and prudently without disrupting is scheduled to be taken up on the House floor with Sen. Ellen Anderson (DFL-St. Paul), the market,” Peterson said. Feb. 19, and if it passes, will likely be headed would gradually increase the percentage of the If it becomes law, the standard would to the governor’s desk soon after. state’s electricity that comes from wind, solar, represent a significant leap over the state’s Proponents of the measure say it will hydroelectric and other renewable energy current “renewable energy objective” of help reduce carbon emissions, to which sources to at least 25 percent by 2025. Xcel 10 percent by 2015. many scientists attribute global warming. In Energy, the state’s largest power company, The difference in terminology is key: addition, supporters of a renewable energy would face an even tougher standard of at whereas the “objective” requires that electric standard claim that it will add thousands of least 30 percent by 2020. utility companies make a “good faith effort,” manufacturing jobs in the state, revitalize rural Peterson characterized it as “the most the proposed “standard” is a mandate that Minnesota and lower the cost of electricity. aggressive renewable energy standard in the would allow the state to financially penalize Critics of the bill not only refute many United States” relative to the size of states’ companies that fail to comply. of these claims, but also say that the bill electricity markets. The bill also includes a flexible credit “We have the responsibility, I believe, to system, whereby companies that exceed the First Reading continued on page 4 February 16, 2007 Session Weekly 3 First Reading continued from page 3 Testifying Feb. 5, Lynn Hinkle, a their 2005 levels for the next 25 years — but representative of United Auto Workers Local not decrease them. places an undue burden on the state’s power 879, said that a renewable energy standard Also, Beard notes that because of the companies. They contend that wind power would create a massive and immediate need inherent unreliability of wind power — no one — which will constitute the bulk of the new for wind turbines. That would encourage the can predict how much wind there will be on a energy — is fundamentally unreliable, and companies that make these turbines to set up given day — power from wind turbines has to that consumers will end up paying the price. shop in rural Minnesota, where most of the be backed up by coal plants, which will make turbines would likely be located. reducing carbon emissions more difficult. Cost and feasibility Hinkle said that Germany, which generates Opinions on the issue differ, however. Pros and cons aside, some say a 25 percent approximately 16,000 megawatts of wind Statistics compiled by Clean Energy Minnesota by 2025 standard is simply demanding too power, currently has 40,000 workers directly indicate that the renewable standard proposed much of the state’s power companies. involved in manufacturing and installing by the bill would decrease the state’s overall One problem is transmission. wind turbines. Minnesota, which would have carbon emissions by more than 4 million tons Terry Grove, co-executive director of to add approximately 5,700 megawatts of wind annually. CapX 2020 (short for “Capacity Expansion power, would likely add somewhere around Regardless, Peterson admits that more by 2020”), said that a 25 percent mandate 14,000 “core manufacturing jobs,” he said. legislation will be needed in the future, both in would flood the state’s energy market with an Peterson admits that fostering economic Minnesota and around the world, to decrease extra 5,700 megawatts of renewable electricity. development in rural Minnesota is one of his carbon emissions, but said he considers the Without new power lines, Grove said he primary goals. bill a good first step down that road. isn’t sure the state’s electric transmission “I want my part of the state to stay connected “We can do our part,” he said. infrastructure can handle it. Moreover, he to the state economy,” he said. said modifying that infrastructure in such a Rep. Mike Beard (R-Shakopee), however, short period of time would be a “tall order.” isn’t sure that’s a good enough reason to Frequently called numbers (Area code 651) Similarly, Greg Oxley, government relations burden the state’s power companies with strict director for the Minnesota Municipal Utilities and potentially costly regulations. House Public Information Services Association, which carries approximately “We have this mistaken impression that these 175 State Office Building .......................296-2146 Chief Clerk of the House 14 percent of the state’s electricity load, said are hugely lucrative companies, just because 211 Capitol ..................................................296-2314 that the proposed standard is “a bridge too far.” they’re big, and therefore we can soak ’em,” House Index Testifying before the House Energy Finance Beard said during a Feb. 12 division hearing. 211 Capitol ..................................................296-6646 Toll free ..............................................(800) 657-3550 and Policy Division Feb. 5, Oxley estimates the Senate Information state would need a new “six to seven very big Meeting goals 231 Capitol ..................................................296-0504 transmission lines” going from west to east to TTY, Senate ................................................296-0250 Critics of the bill have also pointed out that Toll free ..............................................(888) 234-1112 accommodate the additional power. it might not actually live up to its stated goal of Secretary of the Senate Pressed by a question from Rep. Kate Knuth reducing carbon emissions. Betsy Engelking, 231 Capitol ..................................................296-2344 (DFL-New Brighton), Oxley admitted that Voice mail/order bills ..............................296-2343 manager of resource planning and bidding for Senate Index his estimate
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