Paying the Arsonist who Burned Down Your House

You may remember last year the revelation that a small town in Alaska charged rape victims up to $1,200 for the cost of the kits used to collect evidence from them.

Yesterday, the Kentucky Public Service Commission pulled a similar stunt.

The Kentucky Public Service Commission on Wednesday authorized Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities to pass nearly half a billion dollars in environmental projects on to their 900,000 customers across 77 counties.

Work will include new coal combustion waste landfills at LG&E's Trimble County power plant and KU's Ghent power plant near Carrollton; an expansion of an ash pond at the Trimble plant; construction of a second ash landfill at LG&E's Cane Run power plant in Louisville; and new controls on smog-causing nitrogen oxides at KU's E.W. Brown plant in Mercer County.

Read the whole thing.

This is worse than the rape kit outrage. Those coal-ash ponds are "environmental projects" only in the sense that they devastate the environment and allow Big Power to shrug and blame "nature" when the ponds burst, flood millions of acres and poison thousands of people.

But there is and never has been any limit to the ways that Kentucky's government will offer up its citizens for Big Coal and Big Power to ass-rape.