Greenfield group takes ZBA to court over plant

Tamarac wrote:

Making electricity creats byproducts. Greenfield does not want those byproducts in their backyards. Someone has to accept the consequenses of of making the electricity that we all use. Vernon VT willingly accepts byproducts from VY. So now do you get it? Now do you understand that you don't get to complain about VY when at the same time you reject this biomass plant in your backyard!

D-Hinsdale NH wrote:

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Put a solar panel or windmill in my back yard any day but I don't want a nuclear or incinerator plant.

Shut Down VY wrote:

Highly-radioactive waste sitting on the river bank; leaks of radioactive steam & water; malfunction after malfunction after malfunction; a shay company running the plant into the ground and then spinning it off; a tsunami of decommissioning costs headed our way. We need alternatives to nukes.

Humane Humanity wrote:

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The difficulty that I have with the anti nuclear movement is that they will sacrifice anything to shut down a nuclear power plant. Endorsing a technology that could potentially do greater harm the environment in order to shut down VY is of no consequence to this lynch mob. Secondly when confronted with facts their fall back line is, "We will achieve our goal of replacing VY energy through conservation". The trouble is that conservation does not produce energy, conservations parameters are limited by freeing up existing energy. I'm not saying that we shouldn't conserve, I am saying however, that zero growth historically and behaviorally has has not been a sucessful option. While this neck of NE is busy reducing their standard of living, the rest of the nation is more concerned with housing starts and selling automobiles. Anyone who has toured the massive EPA building in DC understands the hypocracy. It's not good enough to be against nuclear energy, you must support better alternatives right here in you back yard. If we don't develop truly clean base load replacment energy for VY, we are doomed to purchase and support coal fired and other environmentally dammaging sources off the grid. Vermont Yankee stores 30 years worth of spent fuel on one quarter of an acre. It does not produce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides or carbon dioxide. By comparrison to other base load sources VY's environmental impact is a mere fraction.

New Clear Waste wrote:

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I read all this, and I disagree with it. I'll continue to urge my legislators not to approve the VY relicensing.