Historic Decision: Vermont Senate Votes To Retire Nuclear Plant
The Vermont State Senate voted to retire the Vermont Yankee Nuclear plant, owned by the Louisiana based corporation Entergy. Despite Entergy’s efforts to renew the license for the 40-year-old reactor, the Vermont Senate voted to shut down the nuclear plant as scheduled in 2012. The final vote was 26-4.
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Historic Decision: Vermont Senate Votes To Retire Nuclear Plant
Energy — It Just Doesn’t Add Up
I’m close to turning 50 years old and I’m having Energy déjà vu. Over the winter, fears of oil shortages put prices through the roof and energy production is being blamed for the climatic changes around the world. Chicken Little keeps telling us the sky is falling, yet forty years have gone by and the sky is still blue. Another thing that hasn’t changed is that we still don’t have an energy plan. How can we not have a strategy in place to quell the fear and stop the pain?
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Energy — It Just Doesn’t Add Up
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