New York Governor confident that nuclear reactor can be closed
“The replacement power issue is not a justification to keep Indian Point operating. And my point has always been safety first and the reward doesn’t justify the risk,” Cuomo said….
New York can replace Indian Point reactors: Governor Cuomo, by Scott DiSavino, 26 Sept 11, (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is confident the state can replace the power generated by the giant Indian Point nuclear plant, Continue reading
Three new Renewable Energy Laws in California
Rick Perry’s nuclear-powered ride in US politics
State Rep. Lon Burnam of Fort Worth, a leading opponent of Simmons’ nuclear waste application, also uses the term “crony capitalism” to describe the years-long regulatory and legislative effort that ultimately gave Simmons a monopoly over low-level nuclear waste disposal in Texas. Legislation passed this year allows up to 36 states, including Texas, to dump their nuclear refuse in a red-clay landfill at the 1,388-acre site just inside the Texas-New Mexico state line.
Perry is hounded by charges of ‘crony capitalism’ MIAMI HERALD, BY DAVE MONTGOMERY, 25 SEPT 11, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS AUSTIN, Texas – In 2008, Larry Soward, one of three commissioners for the Texas environmental regulatory agency, cast the lone dissenting vote against licensing a controversial low-level nuclear disposal site in far West Texas.
Looking back now, Soward says, “it didn’t take too much of a rocket scientist” to conclude that the project – pushed by one of Gov. Rick Perry’s biggest political donors – would ultimately be approved. Continue reading
Millions of jobs in USA’s renewable energy future
“The report underscores the need for appropriate public policy support and funding to maximize the economic benefits that come from our nation’s vast sustainable resources and achieving a clean, 25x’25 renewable energy future,”
Pursuit of 25x’25 renewable energy goal will generate millions of new jobs, Drovers Cattle Network, Ernie Shea, 25x’25 and Burton English, BEAG September 25, 2011 With the United States on a path to achieving the 25x’25 clean energy goal, an estimated 1.4 million new jobs would be created by 2015, 2.9 million jobs by 2020, and 4.7 million by 2025, according to a University of Tennessee study. Released by the 25x’25 Alliance, 25% Renewable Energy for the United States by 2025: An Analysis on Jobs Created By Meeting this Goal shows that the jobs will be created by annual economic growth in the renewable energy sector, reaching $208 billion by 2015, $411 billion in 2020, and $646 billion by 2025. Continue reading
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant – concerns about earthquakes
An Associated Press analysis of pre-quake data shows the risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought.
Quake prompts questions, testing at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, By JIM HAYDEN, The Holland Sentinel, Sep 25, 2011 The rare earthquake in Virginia last month rattled more than nerves along the East Coast. The temblor touched off a lowest-level emergency warning at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant along the shores of Lake Michigan. Continue reading
Time for rigourous scrutiny of nuclear loan guarantee program
The nuclear industry successfully pushed to put reimbursement for private investors ahead of taxpayers in the event of a bankruptcy or liquidation….
“We should subject the nuclear loan-guarantee program to the same level of rigorous scrutiny as we are now insisting the solar loan-guarantee program undergo,”
Markey Calls for Scrutiny of Nuclear-Power Loan Guarantees, Bloomberg By Brian Wingfield – Sep 23, 2011 Congress should examine whether the U.S. nuclear industry pressed lawmakers and the Energy Department to alter loan-guarantee requirements for reactors, Representative Edward Markey said. Continue reading
USA’s Koch brothers’ campaign against the environment
Rand Paul Wants Koch Brothers Thrown in Jail! By Brad Friedman on 9/23/2011 ,”………. Koch Industries was indicted by the DoJ in 2000 for knowingly dumping “at least 91 metric tons of uncontrolled benzene in its liquid waste streams” at its Corpus Christi refinery, and for conspiring to cover it an attempt to deceive regulators.After George W. Bush took office in 2001, however, “his Attorney General John Ashcroft dropped 88 counts against Koch for the benzene spill and cover-up” in exchange for a guilty plea to falsifying documents and a $20 million fine (a settlement from $350 million in potential fines.)
The Kochs made out pretty well in exchange for their $32,200 contribution to the 2000 Bush campaign. The job killing Koch brothers are making out even better under Barack Obama. But more on that later.
Suffice to say, neither the Kochs, nor anybody who works for them, went to jail for “dump[ing] benzene in the stream,” as Paul is calling for, even as he calls for doing away with even more environmental regulations in his remarks to The Street.
As we’ve been highlighting of late, the Republicans have been on a tear against clean air and water regulation by the EPA recently, and have shown themselves willing to partner with their various front groups in the media, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and with folks like the Koch brothers to simply make stuff up about such regulations “killing jobs”, in their 2012 “mother of all wars” to regain the White House…. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8778
Nuclear energy got huge startup subsidies, renewable energy gets pittance
Early subsidies to nuclear dwarf all others
Energy subsidy showdown: Fossil fuels, nuclear, biofuels vs. renewables, Smart PlanetBy Kirsten Korosec | September 23, 2011 Renewable energy has snagged just a fraction of the federal subsidies that fossil fuels and nuclear received when they were emerging technologies, according to a new report from venture capital firm DBL Investors. Continue reading
Florida’s nuclear power project – long delay, skyrocketing costs
the online date, if the reactors ever even come online, has bumped back to 2021 and 2022 and the estimated cost has skyrocketed to upper estimates of $22.5 billion!…
Round 3 – Florida Paying for Risky Nuclear Costs, Clean Energy Footprints, 22 Sept 11, Last month, SACE again participated in the nuclear cost recovery hearings for Progress Energy Florida (PEF) and Florida Power & Light (FPL) at the Florida Public ServiceCommission (PSC) in Tallahassee. This is the third consecutive year that these Florida utilities have asked the PSC to approve millions of dollars in ratepayer increases to pay in advance for proposed nuclear power projects that have an uncertain future, especially in a post-Fukushima world.
Utilities gained this ability in 2006 when the Florida Legislature passed anti-consumer legislation. SACE has intervened on behalf of Florida consumers every year to highlight the risks of these proposed nuclear power projects and the resulting unfairness in charging Florida ratepayers in advance. And every year the PSC has unfortunately granted the utilities’ wishes in full.
Could the third time be the charm? The PSC is set to vote in just over a month, on October 24, 2011. Continue reading
Nuclear watchdog groups press NRC chairman to release damning internal dissent
Public interest groups call for nuclear regulators to halt the AP1000 reactor approval process FOE, 16 June 11, Jim Warren, NC WARN, 919-416-5077 Tom Clements, Friends of the Earth, 803-240-7268, tomclements329@cs.com
Citing more design mistakes and omissions, public interest groups call for nuclear regulators to halt the AP1000 reactor approval process
Watchdog groups press NRC chairman to release damning internal dissent
DURHAM, N.C. — In a legal motion filed today, watchdog groups pressed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to terminate the approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design. The groups said that a growing list of mistakes and omissions — and a 19th version of the experimental design filed just this week by the company — prove that the “rulemaking” process to approve the ever-changing design is legally “null and void.” Continue reading
Georgia, USA, awaiting huge government loan guarantee for new nuclear reactors
A Giant Nuclear Project Awaits Its Federal Loans, NYT, By MATTHEW L. WALD, 23 Sept 11, Federal help for energy projects has taken it on the chin lately, with Solyndra, the California solar manufacturer championed by the Obama administration, declaring bankruptcy after taking $528 million in loans from the Treasury.
But a much larger federal loan guarantee for an energy project is expected soon: $8.3 billion in loan guarantees announced last year by President Obama for two nuclear reactors in Georgia…..
The commission issued a final safety evaluation last month that drew fervent objections from anti-nuclear groups.
A few years ago, when the price of natural gas, a competing fuel, was high and many people predicted that the federal government would impose a price on carbon dioxide emissions, the nuclear industry thought Vogtle would be in the vanguard of a new generation of reactors in a so-called nuclear renaissance. Then natural gas prices declined and the impetus faded. And concerns about nuclear safety have grown since the disaster in March at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant…. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/a-giant-nuclear-project-awaits-its-federal-loans/
USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission changed safety rules to benefit nuclear company
a decision by the NRC that “exempted” Indian Point from fire safety requirements that had been on the books for 30 years. ……And the “exemption” was granted in complete secrecy
NRC Cooks the Books at Indian Point, Policy Shop , 21 Sept 11, Richard Brodsky The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe opened the eyes and minds of most Americans to the dangers of Indian Point, and real mismanagement by the NRC. The NRC is supposed to ensure American nuclear reactors are not operated dangerously. There’s been widespread concern that the NRC isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do. Now we can prove it. Continue reading
USA’s endless wrangle over its mounting nuclear waste
Yucca Nuclear Waste Wars, Aol Energy, By Jon Hurdle, September 19, 2011“………Utility commissioners renewed their request to an appeals court to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make a decision on whether spent nuclear fuel can be safely stored at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Continue reading
USA’s secret Plutonium ‘Bomb Plant’ exposed
Obama’s dirtiest, deadly secret exposed: Plutonium ‘Bomb Plant,’ ‘Green future’ Deborah Dupre, Human Rights ExaminerSeptember 14, 2011 –
Obama’s dirty, deadly nuclear industry secret touted as “green future’ exposed
Joseph Trento, investigative journalist of 35 years and DC Bureau editor has released on Tuesday an introduction to “The Bomb Plant,” a multi-media research report based on two years of probing, that documents America’s most radioactive Superfund site is touted by the Obama administration as the pathway to a green future. The report reveals a MOX plant’s weapons-grade plutonium being built in S. Carolina on top of the region’s most dangerous fault line, and how environmentalists led to be “climate change” protesters joined Big Energy and how critics have been targeted, sidelined or silenced.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Obama’s dirtiest, deadly secret exposed: Plutonium ‘Bomb Plant,’ ‘Green future’ – National Human Rights | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/obama-s-dirtiest-deadly-secret-exposed-plutonium-bomb-plant-green-future?CID=examiner_alerts_article#ixzz1YSEG73Mf
North Anna nuclear plant – a test case for USA nuclear regulators
North Anna, 90 miles southwest of the White House, is emerging as a test case for the nuclear industry as it faces increased scrutiny. A presidential task force recommended stricter quake-readiness standards after a quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in March.
It’s also challenging federal regulators as they ponder what to review before they allow the plant to restart. ….
the [earthquake] hazards could be greater than was known when many of the plants were designed.
Weeks after quake, town near nuclear plant remains rattled, By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, 18 Sept 11, MINERAL, VA. – At the Sweet Delights Bakery, amid the aroma of fresh biscuits, talk turns to an unprecedented U.S. nuclear event that happened near its doorstep.
“You can’t not think about it,” says customer Roger Tignor, about the recent magnitude-5.8 quake that jolted the North Anna Power Station 11 miles away. Continue reading
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