Do the IAMVY shrug

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A quick glance today at the Vt.Gov webpage shows a glowing Fall foliage report for potential tourists. This timely seasonal announcement is actually followed with no intended humor by a status report and associated health statements regarding the newest tritium discoveries at Vermont Yankee. The Free Press has a run down of Dubie’s views on Vermont Yankee and the latest comments from the Douglas administration that show but a general shrug of concern (at best).  

Dubie has criticized the Senate vote against Vermont Yankee, arguing the plant’s future should be decided by the Public Service Board, which he says has expertise legislators lack.

A spokesman for Jim Douglas says:

“that detection of tritium in the former drinking well ‘is significant’.”

But he suggests little or no action.  

Meanwhile Public Service Commissioner O’Brien obligingly showcases his own special finesse by expressing his concern or rather complete lack off it over the new discovery of tritium at Vermont Yankee unexpectedly in a water well.

Public Service Commissioner David O’Brien, appointed by Douglas, downplayed the significance. “I don’t think we should take this as an indication of things going one way or another,” O’Brien said. “It’s how many days from Election Day?”

An uncharitable person might get the impression this man didn’t give sh*t one way or the other.  

9 thoughts on “Do the IAMVY shrug”

  1. It’s really too bad that Terri Hallenbeck of the BFP didn’t do due diligence as a reporter and asked the obvious folllow-up of O’Brien: “so, are you saying that the tritium in the well is nothing more than a political stunt?”

  2. That statement from O’Brian alone should be quoted as often as possible whenever someone says the decision should be left to the Public Service Board.

    …a glowing Fall foliage report

     Two guesses from whence that “glow” emanates!

  4. calling on Entergy Nuclear to shutdown (read: close) Vermont Yankee, etc., here.

    for those using Twitter, one can simply go to my tweet on the subject and retweet (RT) it in order to sign onto the petition, here.

    an, earlier, related tweet of mine on the subject (here):

    why does @entergynuclear keep spending so much $$$ on losing #VTY PR battle rather than putting it into decommissioning funds?

  5. Dubie and Douglas fail to mention that more than simply shrugging is possible.

    Recent actions taken by the states of New Jersey and Illinois suggest that Vermont officials, who have not penalized Entergy, could pursue civil litigation or issue a directive dictating the cleanup of the tritium leak and mitigation of further contamination of soils and groundwater at Vermont Yankee.

    http://vtdigger.org/2010/10/12…

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