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Entergy officials say they decided to close Vermont Yankee because of the low price of natural gas. If that's true, why is the company continuing to run its five other nuclear power plants, including Pilgrim near Boston and Indian Point in New York?
The real reason Vermont Yankee is closing is because of the thousands of ordinary people who saw through Entergy's lies (“nuclear power is safe, clean, and reliable, and it doesn't cause climate change”) and volunteered countless hours to attend marches and rallies, to get arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience, to speak out at public hearings, and to go door-to-door to tell their neighbors about the dangers of nuclear power.
Protests preceded the permanent shutdown of Shoreham, Yankee Atomic, Millstone I, Rancho Seco, Maine Yankee, and more than a dozen other nuclear power plants in the United States.
When he was president, Richard Nixon said the nation's goal was to have 1,000 nuclear power plants by the year 2000. There are now 60 nuclear power plants in the United States.
Vermont Yankee is so dangerous that no insurance company will cover it. The hundreds of tons of nuclear waste at Vermont Yankee is the most deadly material on Earth. The waste must be protected by heavily armed guards, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for the next...
Governor Shumlin and the Vermont legislature are planning to approximately double the cost of health care for a large percentage of Vermonters. Unless people are able to persuade these politicians to change their minds, the price increases will take effect on Jan. 1, 2014. In 2010, more than 44,000...
June 2013 will mark five years that the Home Depot on Putney Road in Brattleboro and its acres of parking lot have been vacant. The government made a mistake by allowing prime farmland to be destroyed for this purpose. It's time to correct the mistake. There are two good options, either of which will require the government to buy the building. One is to remove the building and parking lot and return the area to farmland. The government could sell...
The Brattleboro Food Co-op should follow the lead of the food co-ops in Greenfield, Northampton, Montpelier, and Burlington and recognize their workers' union. The Brattleboro co-op should disclose the general manager's salary, as Wal-Mart, General Motors, and most big companies do. On Oct. 3, I submitted to the Brattleboro Food Co-op manager a petition signed by 10 members nominating me to be on the ballot for the Nov. 4 board election. If elected, I will support the workers' right to...
The Vermont Agency of Transportation is planning to take down the pair of beautiful steel Interstate 91 bridges over the West River in Brattleboro and replace them with an ugly concrete bridge. State officials say there is very little time for public discussion about this plan because the federal government has set a strict deadline for funding the project. People should look at the drawings of the agency's proposed bridge (the drawings are available by calling Gov. Peter Shumlin's office),
Yard signs reading “Nuclear Free Vermont in 2012” began appearing on roadsides in the Brattleboro area at least five years ago. Around that time, at town meetings, the people of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney, Marlboro, and other towns voted overwhelmingly to close Vermont Yankee in 2012. Hundreds of people spoke at dozens of public hearings held in Brattleboro and Vernon that were organized by state and federal regulators. They said, “Shut Vermont Yankee now!” Entergy now says it will run...
Activists seeking to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant are gearing up for a vote next month in the Vermont Senate on whether the state's top nuclear regulator - who many say has been too friendly to the industry - will get to keep his job. A federal judge is expected to rule any day on whether Vermont Yankee can run after March 21, 2012. The state has ordered the reactor permanently closed on that date. Vermont Yankee's owner,
