The Burlington Free Press this morning featured GMD's own Maggie Gundersen and her husband Arnie, who have been a thorn in the side of the fork and spoon operators in charge of Vermont Yankee. You may recall that Douglas's Public Service Department attacked Arnie when he was appointed to the panel to review VY's operations, but who's getting taken seriously now?
As the Free Press points out:
“Arnie Gundersen is the only person who’s been right about Vermont Yankee every time,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Shumlin, D-Windham, who two years ago appointed Gundersen to an oversight panel to study Vermont Yankee in preparation for decisions about the plant’s continued operation. Since then, the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office has contracted the Gundersens as consultants on Vermont Yankee for up to $47,000.
Although the Legislature — and by extension the public — has come to rely on Arnie Gundersen to help them understand what’s going on inside the Vernon nuclear power plant, Public Service Commissioner David O’Brien bristles at the very mention of Gundersen’s name. O’Brien contends Gundersen’s warnings have not been as on the mark as some would suggest, is eager for attention and barrages officials with accusatory questions.
Good work, Arnie and Maggie!
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Duh…what quality of questions might one reasonably expect following a pattern of incompetence and deception?
Stay out of the comments section on BFP. I turned off my adblock and privacy software and waded in there. Wow. Some interesting folks that live amongst us here in BTV. Promptly turned my software back on.
Accusatory? Hmm. If there is no immediate threat from the Gunderson’s ‘accusations’ and questioning – why get your panties in a twist? Just forget about it like tritium, leaky pipes, cracked steam driers, etc. etc. etc.
To butcher and paraphrase from a speech given by William McDonough – ‘if a man goes out and shoots someone – its murder, if a corporation goes out and poisons our air, our water, our soil and kills or injures thousands (a little bit at a time) – its called ‘the cost of doing business’ and ‘progress’ and ‘commerce’.