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Should Entergy’s profitability be our primary concern? Or might it be our grandchildren’s health?

Cape Codders care not for Pilgrim’s profitability http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20150927/OPINION/150929636  Paul Rifkin Sep. 27, 2015   Your paper covers the issue of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth several times a week. The same names keep appearing in your stories.

Spokesmen for Entergy, the owner of the Pilgrim facility, such as Lauren Burm, speak of the cost of making improvements to the plant exceeding the value of the plant. David Noyes, Pilgrim’s director of regulatory and performance improvement, says that Entergy “will work out the business models in terms of profitability.”
Value, profitability … is that what Cape Cod residents should be concerned about?

If there is an accident at Pilgrim, radioactive poison blowing in our direction … the bridges close … we are trapped … .
Should Entergy’s profitability be our primary concern? Or might it be our grandchildren’s health, our glorious loss of living on Cape Cod in perpetuity? As frequently quoted activist Diane Turco suggests, “Public safety should have no price tag.”
Turco’s voice is the voice of reason and sanity here. Let’s shutter Pilgrim before the sirens of toxicity sound and we come to realize that Turco was right. She and other anti-Pilgrim activists speak for us. Pay attention to that voice of sanity and reason. The possible consequences of honoring Entergy’s bottom line might be catastrophic.

September 28, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general