401 GT Answers to States DAs

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A/T Indiana Politics…………………………………………………………………………...…….11-12 ....... ...1

A/T State Spending ................................................................................................................................................2

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A/T Montana DA ....................................................................................................................................................4

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N/U – Brown will win .............................................................................................................................................7

A/T California ptx ..................................................................................................................................................8

A/T Georgia State D/A ...........................................................................................................................................9

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A/T State Spending DA

3. STATE ACTION FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY KEY TO ECONOMIES

Thomas D. Peterson, Robert B. McKinstry, Jr., & John C. Dernbach 07 – Dr. Peterson founded the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) to assist

state and regional governments with climate change policy development and implementation. Dr McKinstry is a partner in the Litigation Department, the

Environmental Group, which he co-founded, the Energy and Project Finance Group and the Climate Change Group. John C. Dernbach is Professor of Law at Widener'sHarrisburg campus, teaching environmental law, property, international environmental law, and climate change. He has also taught international law, administrative law,and sustainability and the law. “DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES THAT FULLYINTEGRATES LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC SECTORS”

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020740

A second group of assumptions that underlie other federal proposals, such as those putting a cap on costs of emissions control or those basing their approach on the questionable concept of GHG intensity, are also flawed. Specifically, the assumptions that economicgrowth is closely tied to energy prices and that energy prices will rise due to climate policy are incorrect. State actions providesubstantial evidence on the economic benefits of climate change mitigation. Recent state plans show net economic savings from thecombined effects of specific, proven actions at the state level when combined with long-term transitions toward new technologies,systems, and practices. The economic performance of these plans is driven both by the new energy economy and by opportunities tosave energy and diversify supply through a host of reform actions. Today, energy prices are significantly higher than a decade agowhen international treaty negotiations peaked, and they are widely expected to increase for the indefinite future.

4. STATES ARE COST EFFECTIVE

Adler, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law,07 (Jonathan H., “WHEN IS TWO A CROWD? THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL ACTION ON STATE ENVIRONMENTALREGULATION”, 31 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 67, Lexis)There is empirical evidence that, at least in some areas, state regulation may do a better job of addressing local environmentalconcerns in a cost-effective manner. Several states clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites at lower cost and more rapidly than thefederal Superfund program. n148 Similarly, federal regulations may hinder the adoption of more effective pollution control or resource conservation strategies, and state policy-makers may be more sensitive to such concerns. The federal CAA requires manystates to adopt suboptimal pollution control strategies when equally stringent--but differently targeted--measures would produce betterresults. n149 In the wetlands context, states took the lead in evaluating wetland functions and incorporating the ecological value of particular wetlands into the regulatory process when there was no evidence that similar considerations entered the federal permitting process. n150 In other words, [*108] at a given level of stringency, some states were beginning to incorporate ecological

considerations so as to maximize the environmental value of regulations on wetland development when the federal government wasdoing no such thing.

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A/T Montana DA

1. No link – the counterplan is a state based energy policy – the link is based off of federal energy policies and even if it was

a federal policy the blame would be put on senators not the governor

2. No impact – The Globe and Mail says that there has been mining since 1897 – no reason why right now is the key time for

biodiversity loss or why extinction of a few species in Montana will cause a total collapse of biodiversity AND Species

extinction is natural – no impact

Marc Morano and Kent Washburn, WorldNet Daily, 2000Part 1 Shaky science behind save-rainforest effort New TV documentary finds skeptics among researchers,http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/ag-forst/2000-July/015413.html

Stott agrees that the focus on species loss is misguided from a scientific point of view. "The earth has gone through many periods of major extinctions, some much bigger, let me emphasize, than even being contemplated today and 99.9999 percent (of all species) and I wouldn't know the repeating decimal have gone extinct. Extinction is a natural process," he asserts.

3. If Schweitzer wins he will drill for as much oil as he can

MIKE DENNISON, Gazette State Bureau, 8-3-08 (“Schweitzer defends his record on oil production”http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/08/03/news/state/21-schweitzer.txt)

Schweitzer said Brown can talk all he wants, but oil production during his administration is higher than under administrations of three prior Republican governors - and Montana is one of only several states where oil production has increased since 2004.

Schweitzer believes production will continue to be fairly strong in Montana, and that he deserves some credit for the increase under his administration. Leasing of state lands for oil and gas has doubled under his administration, he said, and he's traveled to Canada toentice producers, put on seminars for producers about Montana's tax and regulatory structure, and pressed for more pipeline capacityto move Montana products.

"I love oil production, and I'm bragging about it," Schweitzer said. "If I was on the other side, I wouldn't bring this issue up."

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A/T Montana DA

Increased drilling in Montana will have devastating affects on the wildlife –

killing key species

MIKE DENNISON, Gazette State Bureau 1-18-08, (“Wildlife groups, energy firms debate development”http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/18/news/state/26-developmentdebate.txt)

HELENA - This weekend in Great Falls, hunting groups, wildlife managers and others will raise the alarm about how runaway oil-and-gas development in Montana could have a huge effect on wildlife."As we looked at this issue more and more, and what's occurred in Wyoming and Colorado, we (thought), 'We don't want to be likethem,' " said Craig Sharpe, executive director of the Montana Wildlife Federation. "We don't want the large footprint, the damage thathas occurred in Wyoming."Yet oil-and-gas industry officials - some of whom will attend Saturday's symposium sponsored by the federation - wonder what the big deal is.They agree that Montana could see more oil-and-gas development in the coming years. But they say it's not likely to be anywhere near

the scale of Wyoming's gas boom - and therefore, Montana shouldn't rush into new restrictions to protect wildlife from something thatisn't going to happen."We agree that we need to look at this holistically," said Dave Galt, executive director of the Montana Petroleum Association. "But if we have a problem, let's identify the problem. And there is a lot of disagreement on whether we have a problem or not."The symposium is an educational event that the Wildlife Federation puts on for its members and the public every two years, Sharpesaid. This year's goal is to "have hunters and anglers far more engaged in oil-and-gas development and the impacts of oil-and-gasdevelopment," he said.Wildlife groups started becoming concerned early last year, in part after they saw a PowerPoint presentation by the state Departmentof Fish, Wildlife and Parks.The presentation showed intensive natural-gas drilling and road building in Wyoming and Alberta, suggesting that the same couldhappen in Montana and possibly harm such species as sage grouse and mule deer."Energy development in Montana, along with urban development, will have more impact to fish and wildlife resources during the next10 years than we have seen over the past 50," one of the slides in the PowerPoint presentation said.Industry officials objected to the slide show, saying it grossly overstated what might happen in Montana.For example, it showed extensive gas drilling and road building in Wyoming's Jonah field, which has reserves of about 10 trillioncubic feet of gas.The entire state of Montana has only about 1 trillion cubic feet of natural-gas reserves, state energy officials say."We don't have the geological structure that created the Jonah field," said Tom Richmond, administrator of the Montana Board of Oiland Gas Conservation.Wyoming's Powder River Basin, which has seen extensive drilling and production for coalbed natural gas, also has far greater reservesthan does the same basin in Montana, Richmond said.Oil production in Montana more than doubled from 2002 to 2006, natural-gas production increased about 17 percent, and the number of wells went from 8,000 to 10,000.Yet Montana production is dwarfed by that in Wyoming, where thousands of wells produced nearly 20 times the natural gas producedin Montana in 2006 and 50 percent more oil.Fish and game officials stopped showing the PowerPoint presentation last year, after the industry objected. They created a new onethat looks at current oil and gas development in Montana, primarily near the North Dakota border.

T.O. Smith, energy coordinator for the state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said he'll show that presentation at the beginningof Saturday's symposium.Those sites may have fewer wells than the Wyoming and Alberta sites shown in the original PowerPoint, but they still demonstrate the potential effects that natural-gas drilling can bring to a prairie landscape, Smith said.Wildlife managers fear if this type of drilling occurs more often in other areas of Eastern Montana, species like the sage grouse could be harmed. They point to recent studies by University of Montana wildlife biologist Dave Naugle, showing that gas drilling and itsaccompanying roads can disrupt grouse breeding grounds.

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A/T California ptx

1. Non-unique – the title of the article they cut their internal link to is “It'sOfficial: The Crash of the U.S. Economy has begun.”

2. Non-unique internal link – Californian green spending is one of the highestin the nation right now.3. Turn – the Californian Republican party thinks incentives for alternativeenergy are awesome – this is from their fucking website, prefer it.

Californian Republican Party - http://www.cagop.org/index.cfm/about_party_platform.htm - April 24, 2008

The California Republican Party is the party that believes in long-term responsible stewardship of California's bountiful naturalresources for future generations. We believe we can have both a healthy economy and a healthy environment and supportenvironmental policies based upon sound science, innovation, new technologies, and incentives rather than regulation, taxation, andlitigation. Environmental regulations must be balanced and tempered by the effect they will have on workers and on the economy. We believe that the Kyoto Treaty is fundamentally flawed because it ignores the fact that the largest source of pollution in the world is

China, which is exempt from the requirements of Kyoto. We believe California industry should be the world's leader in developingand manufacturing safe, renewable, and sustainable energy. We encourage the development of these new technologies and systems for use in the domestic market, as well as for export to large polluters like India and China. We believe that entrepreneurs usingtechnology, innovation, and incentives are more likely to solve environmental problems than are bureaucrats. We support the creationof tax credits to homeowners and builders who incorporate alternative energy systems into their homes, and also support offering taxcredits to people who turn in older, high-polluting cars. Our current dependence on foreign oil threatens both our national security andeconomic prosperity by making us vulnerable to the will of dangerous foreign dictators. Through private initiative and enterprise, wesupport the development of energy independent from foreign sources. To protect lives and property, we must thin many of our forestsusing modern, environmentally sound methods to reduce the extremely high fire hazard. Our overgrown forests cannot safely beallowed to burn "naturally," since they are in an unstable and unnatural condition. We believe city governments should be held to thesame standards of cleaning waste water that apply to private industry.

4. Non-unique – the Californian budget delay is already into its 8th week.

By JIM CARLTON August 4, 2008; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121781229824208861.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California enters its eighth week after a budget deadline with no deal in sight between Republican andDemocratic lawmakers on a spending plan, a delay that brings the nation's most populous state closer to having to slash servicesdeeper and borrow at premium rates

5. This puts them in a double bind – either a) the impacts should havehappened 8 weeks ago and are empirically denied or

b) the impacts are occurring in the status quo –

terminally non-unique.

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A/T Georgia State D/A

1. Their Legislative Update card indicated that MRR had over 60 millionappropriated only down 5 million from previous years and never says that the

plan would cause a tradeoff.

2. Their Huff card indicates that MRR is a fundamental priority for schools inGeorgia, no reason why the Georgian state government would trade that off with the plan if MRR for schools is that important

3. Their Huff card never says that MRR is key to schools in Georgia

4. No link- MRR provides renovation to schools in Georgia no reason why lack of renovation would immediately lead to Georgia school collapse

5. Governor Sonny Perdue has been committed to the growth of Georgia’seconomy-no way he would allow this trade off if it so vital to the economy.Also Georgia economy is one of the best in the country and is continuallygrowing- no way they collapse

Georgia Department of Economic Development, August 1, 2008,http://www.georgia.org/PressCenter/NewsItems/Business/Georgia+Announces+Double+Digit+Increases+in+Jo bs+Investment+for+Fiscal+Year+2008.htm?Popup=true

Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that 321 economic development projects located or expanded in the state during Fiscal Year 2008, resulting in double-digit growth percentages in the number of the projects, amount invested and jobs created. These companies,who were assisted by the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), will bring 19,668 jobs and $3.26 billion in

investment to the state. “As Governor I have made increasing jobs and investment a priority for my administration,” said Governor Perdue. “I am very pleased our hard work is paying off as we continue to see companies show interest in Georgia’s business-friendly

environment and talented workforce.” These results represent a strong upward trend for Georgia, with investment increasing 17 percent over fiscal 2007 and jobs increasing 13.1 percent over the same period. The number of announcements increased 14.2 percent

as well. All areas of the state have benefited from the economic growth, with rural projects (outside the Atlanta, Columbus, Macon

and Savannah metro areas) accounting for 60 percent of all the new jobs announced and 56 percent of the investment. On Thursday,Forbes.com released its annual ranking of the best states for business, and Georgia moved up to 5th, the biggest jump of any state.Earlier in the week, Georgia was ranked as having the third best business climate among the 50 states, according to a survey of U.S.corporate executives conducted every three years by Development Counsellors International (DCI). Georgia was identified by 20.4

percent of the 281 respondents to the 2008 survey as having the most favorable business climate. Georgia has above average economic growth when compared with the rest of the country. Its gross domestic product increased by 2.8 percent in calendar year 2007,according to a Bureau of Economic Analysis report. Georgia now has the fastest-growing economy in the Southeast and ranks 11th in

the country in terms of growth. “We are continuing to promote Georgia’s key assets, including a strong workforce, excellenttransportation network and competitive cost of doing business, to garner more economic successes for the state,” said Ken Stewart,commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. “Our team is out every day aggressively marketing Georgiaacross the globe, and I’m proud to see positive results.”

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A/T Georgia State D/A

6. Their Business Wire CardA. Is talking about the Atlanta economy not the Georgia Economy

B. Never says that the Georgia economy is key to regional economy orthat the regional economy is key to the United States economy.C. Outlines that all the regional economy are reasonably balanced in the

national economyD. The card also indicates that there will be no recession in the U.S.

7. Georgia wouldn’t cut spending to programs, empirically proven whenGeorgia’s economy got worse the governor used reserve funds instead of cutting programs. Also Georgia’s economy bad now-impacts should havealready happened

Wainwright Jeffers, July 17, 2008, http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8695574&nav=5kZQ/

Georgia's economy is going through a tough time. Governor Sonny Perdue dipped deep into the state's reserve fund to keep the budget balanced, and this fiscal year's budget just went into effect two and a half weeks ago. The state is in trouble because revenuecollections are far from revenue projections. And the less we spend the less the state collects. New Revenue Figures for June showedthe state 168-million dollars less that it did last June. That's a decrease of almost 10%. Even though the new budget year just started,the Governor ordered the transfer of 600 million dollars from reserves to cover expected shortfalls. Now instead of running a budgetdeficit, they're able to balance the deficit without making additional spending cuts," said Aaron Johnson, AssistantEconomics Professor at Darton College.

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A2: Indiana Politics

1. The economy and daylight savings overwhelm the link Indiana University, their source, Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics, 5-2-08,

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/gubern atorial%20poll%20release%2005.pdf What is the most important issue in Indiana?As was the case on the national level, the economy was by far the most important issue with 49% of the 1,274 respondentsselecting that as the issue the next governor should focus on ahead of other issues. This is virtually unchanged from two weeks ago.Property taxes came in a distant second at 26% (21% two weeks ago). Two issues that some thought would be important are

government privatization (3%) and daylight saving time (5%), but neither ranked very high.

2. Thompson wont win – uniqueness overwhelms the link

A. Special Interest connectionsTargeted News Service 7/7/08 “Indiana GOP: Hoosiers for Jill? Apparently Not” Lexis

Unable to attract support from the people she hopes to represent, Democratic candidate for governor Jill Long Thompson is relying

almost entirely on out of state special interest groups to fund her campaign. In the first quarter of 2008, more than 75 percent of

her funding came from donors outside of Indiana. With 70 percent coming from Washington, D.C., alone, Indiana RepublicanParty Chairman Murray Clark said it is obvious who Jill Long Thompson would represent as governor. "Jill Long Thompson should

change her campaign name from 'Hoosiers for Jill' to 'D.C. Special Interests for Jill,' because Hoosiers don't appear to be

supporting her campaign," Clark said Second quarter finance reports will become public on July 15, but according to her supplemental filings, she has received $805,000 from out-of-state sources in the second quarter of 2008. Washington D.C. basedgroups EMILY'S List and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have contributed $700,000 of that sum. "Jill LongThompson's reliance on her friends in Washington D.C. to fund her campaign raises serious questions about her plan for

Indiana," Chairman Clark said. "Why are these special interests playing such a big role in her campaign?"

B. Divided UnionsAP 7/28/08 “Unions slow to back Thompson in governor's race” Lexis

A rivalry among organized labor groups and a dispute over state workers' bargaining rights are costing Democrat Jill LongThompson money and volunteers in her bid to upset incumbent Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels. Although Democrats

traditionally are supported by major union groups, the United Auto Workers union and AFL-CIO which supported LongThompson's opponent in the May primary have refused to fully endorse her candidacy . Long Thompson's ties to another

major union, the Service Employees International Union which has contributed nearly $1 million to her campaign are

complicating matters. Ray Scheele, a political science professor at Ball State University, told The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne fora story published Monday that the UAW and AFL-CIO have weakened since the SEIU split and the groups are now battling each

other for membership and dues. That battle appears to be at the heart of the problem for Long Thompson, along with the debateover her commitment to restoring the bargaining rights of state workers if she were to defeat Daniels.

C. Republican criticismJournal Gazette 8/3/08 “GOP rips Long Thompson ad before it airs” <

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080803/LOCAL0202/808030477/1002/LOCAL>Jill Long Thompson’s first TV ad of the general election cycle wasn’t even on the air yet when the Indiana Republican Party

labeled it a negative attack . “Jill Long Thompson is keeping with past practice,” GOP state party Chairman Murray Clark said in a prepared statement. “She has a long history of negative campaigning and we’re not surprised in the least that the first ad from her Washington D.C.-based campaign would choose cynicism over substantive policy ideas.”

D. Prefer our evidence, its 2 months newer – there evidence does not accountfor the other democratic candidate dropping out

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A2: Indiana Politics

3. No internal link

A. Daniels has been governor for 4 years since their ev, no reason why post-election he would ban gay marriage.B. Gay marriage would have to go through the state congress – Daniels not keyto the ban

4. Indiana steel industry in declineArgonne National Laboratory, their author, 4-11-03, http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2003/news030411.htm

The U.S. steel industry produces more than 100 million tons of steel annually. Blast furnaces that convert iron into molten iron are

crucial components of steel companies, many of which are located in northwest Indiana. Because of aging technology, Indiana's

steel industry is losing its competitive edge.

5. Alt causes to heg

A. Military overstretch – not enough troops to be deployed all around the worldB. Iraq and Afghanistan has destroyed our international credibility to deterasymmetric threats

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