Renewable Revolution

“If Vermont Yankee runs out of decommissioning funds, Vermonters will be left holding the bag. We have lost the right to audit how Vermont Yankee is spending the decommissioning money because it is not regulated as a traditional ‘utility’ but rather is a ‘merchant plant’ selling power where and when it could,” Gundersen said Thursday.

bob zeliff 
 

June 5, 2015 at 5:53 am


It is becoming more and more obvious that Entergy continues to find ways to not only avoid it’s responsibility to decommission its obsolete plant but is bleeding away funds…evan when the decommissioning fund is INADEQUATE complete the job.

This will leave the final huge clean up bill to taxpayers.

I think it is time not only for Hoffer be given the authority to monitor the decommissioning funds but our Federal Legislators, Leahy, Welch and Sanders to apply pressure to Obama and the NRC to do their jobs responsibly.