And why must I go to the web to find the Globe brief that appeared in my printed paper but nowhere on the web?
"Pipe inspection continues at VY
Vermont Yankee engineers and technicians are continuing their investigation into the source of a radioactive isotope leaking from the nuclear plant. Plant spokesman Larry Smith said technicians Saturday continued to use a remote-controlled camera to inspect the advanced off-gas pipe tunnel. Friday they found steam and water coming from a dime-sized hole in a drainage pipe. The water coming from the pipe gets collected in a sump drain and doesn't reach the environment. Smith said workers also are preparing to install a new groundwater monitoring well early this week. No detectable levels of radioactive tritium have been found in samples taken from drinking water wells or the nearby Connecticut River.
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So they HAVE NOT FOUND the SOURCE of the LEAK yet, huh (as cancer leaks into the soil and groundwater?
Related:
Watching Vermont's Nuke
Your Friendly Neighborhood Nuclear Plant
Around New England: Vermont's Invisible Killer
Breaking News: Shut Down Vermont Yankee Now!
Around New England: Just Downriver
Around New England: Cancer Water Creeping Into New Hampshire
Around New England: Vermont Votes Yankee Down
Yeah, right, I'm going to believe the company.
And you really do hate us out here, don't you, Glob?
Don't care about US or OUR HEALTH at all, huh?
Well, have fun swimming in shit, Glob.
And it looks like Vermonters are taking matters into their own hands:
"Wind power makes headway in Vt.; Major project wins town’s OK" by John Curran, Associated Press | March 8, 2010
LOWELL, Vt. - The windmills of the Lempster Wind Power Project....
Despite its clean-and-green image, Vermont has been reluctant to embrace wind power, in part because people fear that towering windmills will spoil the mountain landscapes that are the state’s signature. Citizen opposition has delayed the start of several commercial wind projects, including a 16-turbine project by First Wind Corp. in Sheffield.
“The ball hasn’t been rolling fast in Vermont,’’ said James Moore, clean energy advocate for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. “This is the beginning of something very different, which is aggressive support by those in power - namely the second-largest utility in the state - that’s both great for the local economy and provides affordable, safe, renewable energy for their customers,’’ said Moore.
That is why I do not trust it.
They aren't looking out for YOUR INTERESTS, dear readers!!
The LOOTING and LIES have PROVEN IT!
The project, a partnership of Green Mountain Power Corp. and Vermont Electric Co-Op, calls for up to two dozen 400-foot tall wind turbines along a 3-mile stretch of the Lowell Mountain range ridgeline. The windmills, built mostly on leased private land, would generate up to 63 megawatts of power - enough to power about 20,000 homes.
Cui Bono?
With Lowell residents wary about giant windmills sprouting from hilltops, Green Mountain Power Corp. hired Tetreault and his wife, opened a local “office’’ in their 19th-century farmhouse, and spent about a year lobbying for the project in Lowell.
I'm liking the project less and less.
Sweetening the pot: Green Mountain Power Corp.’s promise to pay $400,000 to $500,000 in annual payments in lieu of taxes to the town, whose government has an annual budget of about $420,000 a year.
Promises, promises.
Next month, the project’s developers will apply for a certificate of public good from the state Public Service Board. Once that is obtained, construction can begin. Green Mountain Power hopes to be generating power by end of the 2012.
“It’ll give us a break,’’ said George Sargent, 57, a contractor, stopping for gas Friday at the Lowell General Store. “There’s no business here. You’ve got to have something to spur it. The way I look at it, it’s better than putting in a prison.’’
Well, yeah, that I agree with (although prisons mean more jobs, don't they?).
Yeah, you might want to leave that faucet running, readers:
"Quebec, utilities in Vt. renew their deal; Current contracts expire in 2012" by John Curran, Associated Press | March 12, 2010
MONTPELIER — Two Vermont utilities signed an agreement yesterday on a 26-year deal to buy power from the Canadian provincial utility Hydro-Quebec, replacing contracts that expire beginning in 2012.
The deal is among Green Mountain Power Corp.,
Under a “memorandum of understanding’’ signed yesterday, the Vermont utilities would buy up to 225 megawatts and use a “price-smoothing mechanism’’ that would shield customers from market price spikes during the length of the deal.
In addition, the utility companies said they would press state lawmakers to enact legislation designating large hydroelectric power sources, including Hydro-Quebec power, as renewable energy, with any resulting credits shared by the three companies....
Related: "They do not have the money for said project but like other ones they built, they will get Renewable (carbon) Credits before it is constructed and operating." -- Wake the Flock Up
So it IS a RIP-OFF SCHEME!
The Vermont utilities have been negotiating with Hydro-Quebec for more than a year, but the issue has gained urgency in light of recent developments at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.
The plant, which reported a leak of radioactive tritium Jan. 7 that has yet to be stopped, is scheduled to close when its license expires in 2012, although owner
Good-bye!!!
The state Senate voted Feb. 24 to close the plant in 2012, but that vote is not binding by itself....
WTF?
Also see: Around New England: Vermont Violence
