Take for example, the resume of Richard Heaps which references a research project he did:
The Economic Impact of the VY Station on Windham County and Vermont, February 15, 2008. Prepared for Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee for presentation to the Vermont Public Service Board.
Take, for example, a piece in today’s Brattleboro Reformer:
If Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon closes in 2012, nearly 1,300 jobs will be lost as will the $93 million in payroll income received by those workers.
That was the conclusion of Richard Heaps, of Northern Economic Consulting, Inc. in Westford, in a study commissioned by the International Brotherhood of Electronic Workers Local 300, which represents about 180 employees at Yankee.
So the IBEW did not hire an independent consultant to research this. They hired someone who already had a prior working history with Vermont Yankee, someone who had recently worked directly for Vermont Yankee.
To read the Reformer piece, you’d think that Heap’s company, Northern Economic Consulting, was doing a completely independent analysis.
If, of course, you weren’t paying attention.
“If Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon closes in 2012, nearly 1,300 jobs will be lost”
The IBEW has known this was coming for the last 40 years! Their leadership is loudly proclaiming their incompetence by shouting from the rooftops that they are not ready for something they’ve known was coming for decades!