Public Benefits Petitions

Public Benefits Funding: A Call To Action!

We at Northern Thunder invite the collected stakeholders across the state to join us in considering the merits of a class-action suit against the State of Wisconsin to assure full restoration of all public benefits funds (retroactively to the passage of the last biennial budget) and return these resources to their rightful purpose of assuring efficient energy use in our state.

Our entire state energy policy has become politicized with the big contributors calling the shots. Northern Thunder, as a grassroots representative of citizen consumers, is not willing to grovel for crumbs from an energy policy with ever decreasing support for efficiency and investment in renewable sources. Politicians of both parties are apparently unwilling to look to sound science and the environmental and economic benefits for the people of Wisconsin; instead, they have pledged their allegiance to the profits of shareholders in the major energy holding companies. If this injustice is allowed to stand, then we have lost our place among the ranking of progressive states with forward-looking energy policy and programs. There is no other viable alternative: efficiency and renewables must be our first priority!