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Nice of Larry ENVY to start pointing fingers - before the fire marshal's investigation is complete - for the fire at the ENVY office in Brattleboro.
Smith wasted no time in pointing at the anti-nuke folks.
Although tensions have been high regarding the continued operation of the nuclear power plant, this was the first time someone had put people's lives at risk, Smith said. He added that he was shocked that someone could be so selfish as to put their agenda before someone's lives.
[from VPR] (Smith) "It's a little disturbing; it's unnerving. If the cause of the fire is determined to be deliberate, that's the most brazen, deliberate attempt on our property, or our employees or one of our facilities in our in our 39 year history."
Right, lives were in such danger at corporate headquarters at 3 a.m.
"When the first crew arrived the sprinkler system was active and there was smoke in the first floor of the building," [Fire Chief Michael Buccossi] told the Reformer. "Fire damage was minor as we were able to extinguish it in a short amount of time, but there was moderate water and smoke damage to the building."
The usual anti-nuke spokespeople all seemed to fall right in line with the suggestion that some anti-nuke person or group had broken in and started the fire.
[Dan] DeWalt said setting fire to a building as a form of protest is "highly counter-productive."
"We're trying to win allies here," he said. "I don't think an act of violence or of destruction can win allies. The power of our movement is in our non-violence."
Given that the state is now battling the worn out and obsolete plant's continued operation beyond March, 2012, it just wouldn't make any sense for the grass-roots anti-nukes to even consider such a thing.
Bob Stannard, spokesman for Citizen Awareness Network, which also opposes Yankee's continued operation, agreed with DeWalt [...]
"This whole process is all about playing in the confines of the rules of the game," Stannard said. Setting a fire is pointless and not to be condoned, he added.
After dumping that thought, my next one was to wonder whether someone staged the break-in and fire in order to dispose of inconvenient records or test results that can now not be produced. Nor, if I understand the news coverage correctly, can tests be run in the basement lab.
We have our plant servers and computer systems. And there's a quality control lab where we test instruments and other nuclear grade equipment. ~ VPR quoting Larry Smith
What a shame. No current data, more delays in releasing test results now done out of state ... gosh, who's the beneficiary there? |
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