[taildragger]

Fools... They won, they got their tri-fecta, Rowe, Vermont Yankee, and now this. This doesn't include the ones that have closed in CT. Again magical unicorn farts to replace them. Not to mention they will never consider the resource of the "Hartford Basin"....

[Arm_Bears]

Back during the “Arab Oil Embargo” of the early 70’s, there were plenty of bumper stickers here in the South that said “Drive 80 and Freeze a Yankee.”

Forty years later, it looks like the Yankees are going to freeze themselves without any assistance from us.

[Rodamala]

I had a job inspecting some out of use railroad track along the Connecticut River that passed the site of the Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Generating Station (on the opposite side of the river). Unless you knew it had been there previously, you would never know it existed.

The interesting thing is that the cost of closure of these plants is completely covered by the federal government.

For all the hype about power plant construction, atomic energy in particular is a HUGE cash grab of taxpayer billions by crony capitalists.

If the power generation industry had to make their own capital investment to provide a return for their stockholders, and the 0bama "kill private enterprise and energy independence at all cost" agenda was shut down by the Republican Congress, these corporations would be building coal-fired plants right now. Coal is CHEAP and easy to move. We can't have that. No way.

[bestintxas]

TEXACO ran seismic to evaluate that trend in the 80’s but it never went anywhere.