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When Entergy withdraws money from the Vermont Yankee decommissioning trust fund, should the company be required to first seek approval from the federal government?
That's the question at the heart of an Aug. 31 ruling by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB).
The ASLB granted the state a hearing on the matter, giving Vermont officials a chance to argue in detail as to why they think Entergy should continue to provide a 30-day notice before trust-fund withdrawals.
Entergy wants to amend its Yankee license so that the company can spend money from the fund - including cash for spent-fuel management - without giving that notice.
Two long-delayed Windham County hydroelectric stations are well underway and may begin producing power by fall, the developer said Wednesday. New Jersey-based Eagle Creek Renewable Energy LLC is building hydro projects at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams in Townshend and Jamaica. While the West River turbines are relatively...
Speaking in downtown Brattleboro on a sunny Monday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy recalled a much more grim visit four years ago in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. Leahy talked with a man shoveling muck from a store – not because he owned the place, and not because...
It's safe to say there's no love lost between the state of Vermont and Entergy, owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. But when the time came to weigh in on Entergy's attempts to build a second spent fuel storage facility at the Vernon property, it wasn't the state raising the most ruckus - it was the local planning commission. The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) last week aired detailed concerns about how the company chose the proposed site for long-term...
State officials have launched a criminal probe of the Brattleboro Retreat in the wake of Medicare fraud allegations raised repeatedly by a former employee. The investigation - first reported by the Associated Press - was confirmed by Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell on Aug. 25. And documents show that at least some of the state's concerns arose from the complaints of whistleblower Thomas Joseph, who has alleged millions of dollars of malfeasance at the psychiatric hospital. “The investigation will be...
If there's a Bernie Sanders rally in Washington, D.C., David Reed promises he'll be there – even if he has to hitchhike from his Putney home. At an Aug. 27 meeting in Brattleboro, Reed demonstrated his dedication by bringing along a box of green T-shirts he had emblazoned with social media hashtags supporting the Vermont senator's presidential campaign: “#EnoughisEnough, Washington, D.C., #BernieOrBust.” “This election is too damn important to not be talking about it every day,” Reed declared. Reed may...
