Vote No, Now on Vermont Yankee

Signed and forwarded (0.00 / 0)

There is NO reason to keep this plant running. It has clearly exceeded its safe operating life - as was expected when it was built. The idea of extending the license beyond its designed life-time was ludicrous to begin with, and now is being shown to be not simply ridiculous, but downright dangerous.

The owners have shown time after time that they have neither respect nor concern for the people of VT, NH, MA, or CT whose lives and health are on the line, should anything go wrong at the plant. They have shown that they will lie, then lie about lying, when caught red-handed, as long as they think they might be able to squeeze another dollar out of us to line their pockets.

Under the current plan, if the plant were relicensed, it would provide only 11% of the state's electricity. If we simply swapped out all the incandescent light bulbs in the state for compact fluorescents, we'd be a good chunk of way to replacing VT Yankee's energy without building anything new at all. Replace those bulbs with LEDs, and we'd be that much closer. Throw in some power strips and a little public education campaign to ensure that things like TVs, cable boxes, computers, and DVD players are turned all the way OFF when not in use, and we'd be able to kiss VT Yankee goodbye with a barely noticeable blip in our electric bills.

The plant is not needed, it is obsolete, it is unsafe, and its owners are greedy liars who don't give one whit about the health or safety of the people of this state.

Let it go quietly to that great storage cask in the sky when its license expires in 2012...

Beware the Everyday Brutality of the Averted Gaze

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by: mataliandy @ Tue Jan 26, 2010 at 19:21:30 PM UTC

I agree (4.00 / 2)

Thanks for the comments folks. Already have 73 folks signed onto the petition!

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by: Deb Markowitz @ Tue Jan 26, 2010 at 20:23:07 PM UTC

Great, Deb (4.00 / 2)

Signed online and tweeted it.

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by: Jack McCullough @ Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 06:26:08 AM UTC

Can the leg vote without discussing radiological safety? (4.00 / 1)

A "no" vote probably has the perverse result that Entergy keeps operating under an NRC license.  Remember the state is preempted from regulating a nuke based on radiological safety.  Yet radiological safety is exactly the issue right now.  A legislative debate on Yankee will be filled with discussion of that issue and it will feed right into an Entergy federal lawsuit to nullify Vermont's statute and decision.

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by: Salaam Shalom @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 02:20:16 AM UTC

Maintenance and repair (4.00 / 1)

I think if they are disciplined about it they can -- although that might allow any pro-Entergy legislator to scuttle the vote's impact by pronouncing a single word of two syllables.

As soon as those two syllables appear, whoever is running the show must rule that person's comments out of order.

The way to talk about the latest major concerns is to focus on maintenance and repair deficits, increased costs of shut-down not being met due to negligent monitoring, and the fact that the deal stinks -- 11 percent of the state's power at above-market rates. Not to mention the untrustworthiness of the plant's management (lies, secrets and silence; corporate malfeasance). Why make a new deal with a company that hasn't kept their old one?

Shut it down.

Why aren't the company officials who lied under oath being prosecuted for perjury?

NanuqFC
Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and every part about you blasted with antiquity? ~ William Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part 2)

Have you not eroded valves? porous pipeline? a broken tower? an impoverished fund? a tunnel holding noxious wastes? an intoxicated worker? a gushing pipe? Is not your voice speaking lies or your officers gone witless? are you not at risk for falling down at every moment? and every part about you blasted with antiquity? ~ Updated for Entergy VY

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by: NanuqFC @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 04:14:31 AM UTC

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mushroom (0.00 / 0)

Deb, what will it take to shut this thing down?  A mushroom cloud over Vermont?  Entergy just wants to stick us with the clean-up costs of shutting this thing down and Douglas is on their side.  

When you wake up each morning look around you.  It might be the last time you get to do it.  

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by: Watercloset @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 08:27:55 AM UTC