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Ohio Clean Energy Initiative (2016)
| Ohio Clean Energy Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Energy | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type | Origin |
| Not on Ballot |
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
The Clean Energy Initiative did not make the November 8, 2016 ballot in Ohio as an initiated constitutional amendment.
The measure outlined a $14 billion dollar energy program that included infrastructure projects and alternative energy research.
Introduction
The plan described in the measure would have required Ohio to spend $1.3 billion per year on research, infrastructure and developing sites for alternative energy sources including wind, solar and geothermal. These requirements would have been funded by general obligation bonds.[1][2]
The measure would have created an Ohio Energy Initiative Commission, which would have received $65 million each year and take part in infrastructure capital improvement projects with counties, municipal corporations, townships and other governmental entities.[1][2]
Text of measure
The summary and full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Petitioners needed to submit 1,000 signatures with the initial petition filing. The amendment was filed and sent back for revision five times. The sixth submission was made to the attorney general's office on March 4, 2016, and the measure was approved to gather signatures on March 14, 2016.[2][3]
Supporters needed to collect 305,591 signatures by July 6, 2016, to get the initiative placed on the November 2016 ballot, but campaign spokesman John Clarke said that only about 40,000 signatures had been collected.[4]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cleveland.com, "Clean energy amendment could run up against new anti-monopoly amendment," November 10, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ohio Attorney General,"Petition," accessed March 7, 2016
- ↑ Ohio Attorney General, "Attorney General Certification Letter," March 16, 2016
- ↑ Cleveland.com, "No statewide ballot measures planned for Ohio's November election," July 2, 2016
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