Entergy Files Suit vs. VT

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(To the courts !

Entergy and VY show their hand – promoted by BP)

Just in:

Entergy Corporation announced that two of its subsidiaries, Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, have filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont seeking a judgment to prevent the state of Vermont from forcing the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to cease operation on March 21, 2012.

http://www.theflyonthewall.com…

15 thoughts on “Entergy Files Suit vs. VT”

  2. Who cares about the Rule of Law?

    Who cares about Contract Law?

    Corporate Citizens are above the law, only little people are subject to the law.

    Corporations can ignore and abrogate any contract they want to at any time.

    To all those Vermont Yankee lovers out there, how are we supposed to believe Entergy when they say they’ll offer 4.9¢/KW when they won’t honor any contract?

  4. First Section:

    It remains the policy of the state that a nuclear energy generating plant may be operated in Vermont only with the explicit approval of the General Assembly expressed in law after full, open, and informed public deliberation and discussion with respect to pertinent factors, including the state’s need for power, the economics and environmental impacts of long-term storage of nuclear waste, and choice of power sources among various alternatives.

    http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/envy/ACT160.pdf

    Seems clear enough to me.

  5. defend Entergy for challenging Vermont’s self-determination.

    So much for warm and fuzzy ads from VY.

  6. Story + Video: Entergy sues Vermont to keep plant open

    by Anne Galloway | April 19, 2011

    http://vtdigger.org/2011/04/19…

    “The governor and many in the General Assembly have concluded the plant should be shut down,” Smith said. “This has left us with no other choice but to seek relief in the court system.”

    The announcement came just two weeks after Entergy officials told Gov. Peter Shumlin that they planned to continue operating the plant – without permission from the state – after the mandated shutdown date of March 21, 2012.

    “At that meeting they indicated they wouldn’t be suing the state, they would just instead continue to operate the plant,” Shumlin said at a press conference on Monday. “Obviously, they changed their minds.”

  7. Entergy Louisiana has nothing to lose here. Collegiality with the state of Vermont? Gone. Future contracts? Not happening. A chance of winning a PSB vote for a Certificate of Good? About as much as a snowball in Fukushima Daiichi.

    Possible gain? An operating plant is potentially saleable. The longer it is operating the less likely they’ll be forced to deal with the hot fuel rods and other assorted waste at some expense; the more likely the state will eat it, figuratively and literally.

    [sigh]

    NanuqFC

    In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. ~ Bertrand Russell  

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