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It’s been a long time since I wrote a letter to the Chronicle. The nuclear fiasco saga is the occasion for this missive.

My suspicion of a fix has been confirmed by House Speaker Jay Lucas’s input into the matter. Why his intervention now in favor of the Dominion Energy deal? PSC hearings are still ongoing and PSC staff believe bankruptcy for SCANA/SCE&G would not be so disastrous and would penalize them for obfuscation, deceit and outright lying to the legislature and the people of SC.

Had they been more honest and forthcoming years ago, the shutdown could have been less costly to them and to ratepayers.

If a “deal” is made following the Speaker’s proposals, the constitutionality of the BLRA of 2007 will never be decided. I believe it to have been unconstitutional. It was conceived in collusion between SCANA/SCE&G and the state legislature. The former bribed the latter by campaign contributions and the legislature (effectively our de facto government) was guilty of corruption. Pursuing these alleged illegal acts might be beneficial anyway. The Attorney-General has already declared the BLRA to be unconstitutional. Why should he not pursue prosecution of SCANA/SCE&G officials for withholding information that contradicted their public statements about the progress and costs of the two nuclear reactors?

Speaker of the House Jay Lucas provides yet another example of the legislature’s dominance over our state government.

It may be elective but democratic it most certainly is not. Special interests are served more than the voting public.

W. Kirk Wood, Lexington