[matt04]

How many people has the "troubled" plant killed due to radiation? None.

[Cicero]

I usually favor states rights, but as a resident of Vermont I hope the jerks in charge lose their case.

This has been totally stupid. The plant was not maintained as well as it might have been, but mainly because they didn’t know if they would be allowed to stay open. Then the state politicians complain that it isn’t well maintained.

Meanwhile, our utility bills have taken a huge jump this year, because it turns out that their super “efficient” power from methane generated at a waste disposal site was helped along by $10 million in carbon cap money from Massachusetts, which they are no longer getting.

What a scam.

[sefarkas]

For years, the fine citizens of Brattleboro in particular and their cousins throughout the state have benefited from the taxes paid by the VY operators and the cash income from surrounding states who purchased electricity in-part produced by VY. The power grid depends on plants like VY regardless of where state boundaries fall. It would be nearly impossible in 21st Century North America to configure a power grid that would only server one state; not even Texas does such a thing. The regulatory authority over VY is naturally federal. The governments within VY ought not to be able to threaten the livelihoods of people beyond their state boundary by decreasing the reliability of the power grid that the New England economy fundamentally depends upon.

[MindBender26]

Ted Kennedy’s car killed more people than Three Mile Island.