Fox-news, foxy reporting…

Watch this clip and you decide, are they being honest or not? [Colbert Report]

War!

An interesting film on US Wars, reasons and motives. History check; Why after President Kennedy was assassinated did the Vietnam war breakout? Other questions?

Teleprompter or palm reading?

Sarah complains about Obama’s teleprompter while she reads from her palm? No!! You gotta be kidding me!

Are you concerned yet?

Time to start the (((shiver))) Think it can’t happen? Think again! China now own shares in American Banks?

Vermont Yankee update:

Tritium levels rise sharply at Vermont Yankee – Read more…

The supreme court needs to start making supreme decisions

VT Yankee, wait and see?

Letter to my reps in Montpelier VT]

Hello,

I am really confused by this, *wait and see* approach to this serious problem. As it is right now, not shutting down this operation at VT Yankee, is creating more and more radio active pollution in the soils and possibly water tables, rivers and streams. This cannot be so minor an occurrence that we can simply wait to see what VT Yankee will do? We have seen what they will do, lie, stonewall, ignore and simply fix things as they are turned up. Do we really trust VT Yankee with our best interests? Respectfully, no I do not. And lets not forget the added costs to clean up the current pollution not including the plant dismantle. We need to make some courageous decisions. Shutting this plant down now will only improve our position as far as cleanup. Otherwise, how much more can possibly go wrong. I dare not think about that.

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Hi.
VY accounts for apx 1/3 of Vermont’s electricity and apx 5% of the Northeast region’s. Vermont is connected to the regional grid, sometimes sending and sometimes drawing electricity. VY does indeed sell more electricity outside Vermont than in Vermont.
VY has been scheduled to close in 2012 for decades. Thus the power companies have anticipated the need to get electricity in a post VY world. The Vermont Public Service Department (PSD) oversees the power companies to ensure their ability to meet demand. The PSD energy planner testified this week and characterizes a post VY Vermont this way. The lights won’t go out. Rates will go up but not intolerably.
Short term we’ll buy more power off the grid. Not only will this increase rates, it will increase Vermont’s carbon footprint. Ironically it will also involve power produced by other nuclear plants. We’ll also become more dependant on Hydro-Quebeque (HQ). The closing of VY will put us in a weaker negotiating position with HQ but the PSD planner says we’re in a buyers’ market right now because of the economic downturn.
In the long run we must rely on sustainable generation: solar, wind and hydro. These are an ever increasing part of the mix but it’s naive to think that green technologies will simply replace VY in the near future. Had “moderate”, “middle of the road” people listened to “those whack-o environmentalists” thirty years ago, of course, we’d be much further along with sustainables by now.
The short answer to Fred’s question is that there is a downside to closing VY, which we shouldn’t soft peddle, but that closing VY is doable in terms of energy needs and the economy.
Dick McCormack

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Hello Friends,
I am curious about power generated by this plant. How much power does Vermont actually get? I was told once that it was very little, most goes out of state. Can anyone give me figures on this?
An interesting and scary read: http://www.timesargus.com/article/20100206/NEWS/100209983/1002/NEWS01
Thank you,
Fred

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