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Monthly archive June, 2018

Terra Firma Article

This article appeared in the May 2018 issue of Terra Firm, the Newsletter for the Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group.   Replacement?  What replacement? Misguided Critics Say… Closing a nuclear reactor means another gas plant will open to replace it. We need to keep nuclear plants open in order to hold greenhouse gases down.  Why can’t environmentalists...

Response to ‘Burden of proof: A comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems’

A recent article ‘Burden of proof: A comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems’ claims that many studies of 100% renewable electricity systems do not demonstrate sufficient technical feasibility, according to the criteria of the article’s authors (henceforth ‘the authors’). Here we analyse the authors’ methodology and find it problematic. The feasibility criteria...

Local Task Force Meeting Highlights

Hi All – As I promised, here are some highlights from the Local Task Force meeting last night. I also took some videos of the Entergy presentation until my phone battery ran out – so let me know if you’d like those to use as ‘source material’ for some of these points. I’m sure that...

Letter to Secretary Burgess

Dear Secretary Burgess: My name is Gary Shaw and I live within six miles of Indian Point. I have been observing the operations of Indian Point since the steam pipe rupture in February, 2000, and observing Entergy’s management since they bought Indian Point in 2001. We have seen how poorly the NRC protects the public...
Indian Point Planning to Shut Down as Scheduled in 2021

Indian Point Planning to Shut Down as Scheduled in 2021