Resource Library of Subsidy Documents

Tad Patzek.  Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2004.  Web version of article linked to here updated most recently in May 2005.  Detailed review (100 pages) of the corn-ethanol fuel cycle concludes that production is a net loser from both an energy and an environmental perspective. 

(Summary). Marcus Radetzki and Marian Radetzki, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Vol. 25, Issue 2, Page 180, April 2000. (Subscription required for full article). (More About Article). In OECD countries, the top layer of damage compensation after such catastrophes is…

James Boyd, Resources for the Future, August 2001.

(Pre-Publication Draft). (Abstract). Inder K. Khurana, Richard H. Pettway, and K. K. Raman. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 20, No. 2. In this study, alternative current cost and present value are utilized to provide estimates of unfunded decommissioning costs to investigate whether…

Geoffrey Rothwell, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Policy Brief, January 2002.

Anthony Heyes, Regulation, Winter 2002-2003.

Extract from technical appendix of report by Doug Koplow for the Alliance to Save Energy. Detail on federal subsidies to decommissioning, waste disposal, accident liability, uranium enrichment, and regulatory oversight of the industry.

Jerry Taylor and Peter van Doren, CATO Institute. Op-ed in the Washington Post, May 18, 2001. Concise summary of the artificial economics of nuclear power.

Scully Capital for the US Department of Energy. Final Draft.

(Word Document). Doug Koplow, Earth Track, Inc.

An Interdisciplinary MIT Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Identifies numerous economic and technical problems with the energy source, but concludes governments should invest anyway.

United States Office of Technology Assessment.

Federal Subsidies to Oil in the United States. Doug Koplow and Aaron Martin for Greenpeace.

Nuclear Energy Information Service.  Overview of concerns over vulnerability of plants and spent fuel pools at commercial reactors.

Try accessing through this link if above link fails. Asia Pacific Energy Research Center.

John H. Large and Myele Schneider. Oxford Research Group. Reviews risk scenarios for nuclear plants in various countries and concludes risks there are important gaps in the security profile of the plants. 

International Association for Energy Economics, Conference proceedings. December 4, 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

International Center for Technology Assessment.  Review of costs of defending oil shipments from the Persian Gulf and other sources, such as Colombia.  Also includes Strategic Petroleum Reserve and other domestic security maintenance services in shipping lanes and roads.

Dominique Guellec and Bruno van Pottelsberghe, OECD Publications. This document attempts to quantify the aggregate net effect of government funding on business R&D in 17 OECD Member countries over the past two decades.

J. J. Dooley for the Battelle Memorial Institute, 2001. Trends in public and private sector investments in energy research and development.