Entergy appeals ruling in its favor, citing desire to store hazardous waste in VT without oversight

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So this Dave Gram AP piece featured in The Brattleboro Reformer was unexpected:

The company that owns the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant said Monday night it would appeal a federal judge’s order allowing the plant to stay open past its originally scheduled shutdown date, and asked the original judge to revisit his order and prevent the state from barring the future storage of spent nuclear fuel at the Vernon reactor.

Yes, you got that right.  Entergy is, in fact, appealing the decision that allowed them to stay open.  Why?  Because they not only want the right to stay open.  They want the right to stay open without state oversight of their fuel storage practices.

Any day now, I expect that we will discover that they have, as Mr. Smithers from The Simpsons put it “…crossed that line between everyday villainy and cartoonish super-villainy.”  Regulators will show up, and there will be a defense grid, consisting of an electric fence, a moat and sharks with friggin laser beams.  Oh, and they’ll have installed a Kraken in the Connecticut River to guard the plant from other access points.

Of course, as long as they’ve got enough minions lawyers doing their bidding, they may never need the moat.

16 thoughts on “Entergy appeals ruling in its favor, citing desire to store hazardous waste in VT without oversight”

  1. This is unpleasant. All signs point to a no-holds-barred battle with Entergy from now on, every step of the way. You thought they were bad neighbors before; you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

    I don’t suppose Murtha would approve closing down Yankee because its owners are soulless bastards. Nah, didn’t think so.  

  2. Our kids will have a pretty time trying to get Entergy or its trustee descendents to pay the enormous cost of clean-up that its profit raid will leave behind.

    It amounts to environmental piracy.

  3.  Once again Entergy proves profit and control are foremost in their corporate mind. When people speak of nuclear power being part of the mix of power suppliers it’s good to remember that this behavior is probably the rule and not the exception.  

  4. The company is expected to flesh out its reasons for appealing a largely favorable order later. Lawyers following the case say the only issue on which it lost was on its argument that, because Vermont Yankee will be selling all of its electricity out of state for the foreseeable future, the state has little or no regulatory authority over it.

    I do a fair amount of business out of state. Can I skip out on state regulations? Taxes? Permits?

    This is the logic that its come to? That we are not selling power to VT, so we shouldn’t have to play by VT’s rules?

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