It was great to hear Peter Shumlin taking the Entergy issue right to Brian Dubie yesterday. As reported on VPR, Shumlin launched a powerful attack on Dubie's pro-Entergy partisanship:

 "My experience with both you and the governor is that you are an apologist for Entergy Louisiana stockholders and Entergy Louisiana and you won't stand up for Vermonters."

 Dubie weakly claimed that he doesn't work for Entergy, although it would be hard for Dubie or Douglas to prove that.  Meanwhile, Yankee isn't the only Entergy plant pumping tritium into the water. Down in Massachusetts, the PatriotLedger reports that Entergy's Pilgrim plant is doing the same thing:  

After dropping steadily for much of the summer, levels of a radioactive isotope at one of the Pilgrim nuclear plant’s monitoring wells have skyrocketed above federal drinking water standards again.

 And the response of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?  

Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said his agency is satisfied that Entergy is taking the right steps to solve the mystery at Pilgrim.   . . .  “They’re following the same protocol that’s been used – and used effectively – at other plants,” Sheehan said of Entergy.

Given that we’re now seeing tritium in the aquifer around Vermont Yankee, is it really a good idea for Sheehan to stick with that line?

And, if you’re in or around Plymouth, Mass., how long before you start seeing Entergy’s “I am Pilgrim” commercials?