[raybbr]

But Dominion’s threat to shut down Millstone doesn’t sit well with Connecticut’s Consumer Counsel Mary Healey.

“I don’t like brinkmanship where citizens and ratepayers are concerned,” Healey said, adding it is highly unlikely that Dominion would walk away from tens of millions of dollars in payments that the company will receive annually for providing up to 2,100 megawatts of power into the New England power grid on a daily basis.

But yet...

Conn. consumer counsel opposes Yankee Gas request for rate increase

It seems the only entity allowed to raise rates is the state!

[raybbr]

CT public “servant” audacity ping

[kevslisababy]

Damn, these people need to read “Atlas Shrugged”, or maybe they did and that is their plan book.

I’m just waiting for the “Anti-Dog Eat Dog” policy.

[Porterville]

awful time to own anything the state covets.

[sten]

Imposing taxes on energy producers is just another stealth tax on the consumer

They would just increase the cost per kwh

Govt types have no idea how wealth is generated... people should realize this and strap them into straight jackets with gags while we try to fix the mess they created

Oh yea... and along the way to fixing the mess... wealth gained by politicians and their staff in excess of the national yearly average should be confiscated. govt is not supposed to be about making money (by fleecing the citizens)

[grobdriver]

How apropos that we go to see Atlas Shrugged tomorrow.

[zek157]

Who is John Galt?

Let them use solar panels...

[zek157]

Who is John Galt?

Let them use solar panels...

[taildragger]

North East Utilities had Millstone 1 & 2, Vermont Yankee and Rowe if my memory is correct. Connecticut had Combustion Engineering, that made the Millstone Vessels and well as the design. Now that has been sold 2 or 3 times over, the US lost one of its top Reactor Design Firms, and all the jobs but more important, how to make the Vessel. I knew some of the engrs, in the early 90's they were working on a standard design real safe, system 1000 or something was the name of it, but post Jane Fonda they labored in futility. For the sake of argument, don't get me wrong, "CE" was not perfect, they did some things with their pension that got them sued.

With that all said, look what has become of Connecticut and the North East. They lost engineering expertise and their Southern Manufacturing capability.

Do you blame Dominion if they pull a Galt with all they and their predecessors went through with headwinds @ the state and federal level?

[backwoods-engineer]

Shut the sumbitch down, Dominion Energy! If the Connecticut Yankees are so ignorant as to tax their own power source, they DESERVE rolling blackouts!

[BobL]

Nice to see, but all too rare. It looks like the people that run this power plant are Tea Party types, not afraid to SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER.