Yeah, he really did say that …

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(Couldn’t find the article posted on line, so I’m quoting from the print edition of the Barre/Montpelier Times Argus of 06/23/10.)


“If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are?” [Judge Martin Feldman] asked. Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines? That sort of thinking seems heavy handed, and rather overbearing.”

(Judge strikes down ban on offshore drilling, Barre/Montpelier Times Argus, 06/23/10)

Let us be clear: THEY DO GROUND ENTIRE FLEETS OF AIRCRAFT WHEN A MAJOR PROBLEM HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN ONE!

Heavy handed? Oh … you mean as in we want to protect our only source of food, water, air and shelter from known defects in offshore drilling equipment? REALLY?

And while you are here … you really, really, really have to visit this link and watch the short video.

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  1. A spokesman for a group opposed to the relicensing of Vermont Yankee revealed a crack has been discovered in a cooling water pipe in the nuclear power plant’s east cooling tower.

    . . .

    “You have an 18-inch crack in that header pipe and you have the licensee and the NRC praying that it doesn’t collapse before this meeting,” said Shadis.

    (VY: New cooling pipe crack ‘not an issue’, Brattleboro Reformer, 06/23/10)

    Not to worry, of course, because


    Larry Smith, director of communications for Yankee, said two “through-wall” cracks were discovered in the header pipe during a routine inspection of the cooling towers on June 17.

    The cracks measured 12 to 15 inches in length, he said, and were leaking about 10 gallons of water a minute. The header pipe moves 90,000 gallons of water a minute from the power plant to the cooling fan cells.

    “There are no structural concerns whatsoever Advertisement

    to the cooling tower,” said Smith. “We do not consider this an issue at all.”

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