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Rutland (VT) HeraldMONTPELIER — Former Vice President Al Gore and Gov. James Douglas each tried to marshal support for their positions on the energy bill that the governor vetoed Wednesday evening.
Gore appeared through a live video feed at Vermont Interactive Television's Montpelier studio to extol the virtues of the measure and encourage Vermont lawmakers to make it into law over Douglas' objection.
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The energy bill Douglas vetoed would increase the generation tax on Vermont Yankee's parent company Entergy Nuclear by about $25 million between now and when its current operating license expires in 2012, and use that money to fund measures to improve the efficient use of heating oil and gas in the state as a way of saving money and reducing global warming pollution. It would be somewhat similar to the state's current electricity efficiency program, run by Efficiency Vermont.
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