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Riverkeeper pledges legal action against efforts to replace Indian Point energy with gas

Riverkeeper pledges legal action against efforts to replace Indian Point energy with gas

The environmental group Riverkeeper plans to challenge a Maryland company’s efforts to operate a natural gas plant in New York because of its ties to a former top Cuomo Administration aide convicted of bribery, The Journal News/lohud.com has learned. The move threatens to upend the state’s energy future once the Indian Point nuclear power plant...
Officials, Activists Implore Cuomo to Release Risk Assessment of Pipeline

Officials, Activists Implore Cuomo to Release Risk Assessment of Pipeline

Local elected officials and activists gathered outside Cortlandt Town Hall Thursday evening to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to release the results of a risk assessment of a high-pressure gas pipeline near the Indian Point nuclear plants that is more than two years overdue. “How much longer will the governor make us wait?” said Courtney Williams,...

Leslie Sullivan Sachs: Vermont Yankee impossible to trust

Entergy, the owner of Indian Point reactors, also owns VT Yankee. They are trying to sell  the reactor to a decommissioning firm called North Star.  It is anticipated that North Star will also bid for the job of decommissioning Indian Point.  The behavior of Entergy in VT is described by a resident who saw it...

Entergy, union reach agreement on Indian Point contract

BUCHANAN – A strike by nuclear power plant workers has been avoided as an agreement has been reached between union employees and the owners of the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan.Officials with owner operator Entergy announced today that they have reached a new four-year contract agreement with the Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2....
Fuel Problem With Indian Point Emergency Generators

Fuel Problem With Indian Point Emergency Generators

CORTLANDT, NY — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recent inspection of Indian Point as part of a series of requirements imposed on the nation’s nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 turned up one minor problem. Inspectors found that at temperatures below freezing, the diesel fuel being used could solidify and damage portable emergency...
Harsh words from union head as Indian Point talks pushed to Friday

Harsh words from union head as Indian Point talks pushed to Friday

Workers on strike continue to promote the mistaken belief that Indian Point provides 25% of the electricity used in the NYC/Westchester grid..In reality, the reactors are going out of business since they cannot compete with cheaper energy sources and we have a surplus of electricity. Since there is little profit to be made it is...
Strike Looms At Indian Point Nuclear Plant

Strike Looms At Indian Point Nuclear Plant

CORTLANDT, NY — Workers at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan could go out on strike at midnight Wednesday. While talks are continuing, more than 300 Members of Local 1-2, NY, Utility Workers of America, AFL-CIO took a strike vote in advance of the Jan. 17 expiration of their contract with Entergy, the...

LOCAL 1-2 UPDATE – INDIAN POINT TALKS GOING TO WIRE, PRACTICE STRIKE PICKET SET FOR JAN. 16 AT INDIAN POINT, ENTERGY SLOW TO OFFER TERMS

Marilyn Elie, a long time union supporter and a member of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition expressed sympathy for workers at Indian Point.  “It is their careful work that stands between us and a nuclear accident” she said. She added that the Independent System Operator, regulators of our grid, recently released a report showing...

Short Responses to Common Misconceptions

Electricity Replacement and Greenhouse Gases Misconception If Indian closes we would have no other sources for electricity except for gas, coal and diesel fired plants. That would mean a lot more greenhouse gases and pollution that would disproportionately affect minority communities that are already dealing with high rates of asthma.   Short response Nobody wants...

Nuclear Power and Climate Change

Lately the nuclear industry has been touting its ability to reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.  Usually a straw man like coal that can be easily knocked over, is set up as a comparison. Generally the comparison is accompanied by a counting of megawatts, a wringing of hands and an assertion that...

NYISO 2017 Report

Greetings to all here are the links to the NYSIO report and some thoughts about what I got out of it. NYSIO Releases Indian Point Energy Center Retirement Analysis This short press release explains what they are doing.  Has link to Generator Deactivation Assessment Indian Point Energy Center.  It also has a contact number for...

Replacing Indian Point, Unit 2 and 3

The New York Public Service Commission has evaluated potential reliability issues when Indian Point closes. They have created a plan to ensure that supply and reliability issues are addressed through the Indian Point Replacement Contingency Plan which was put in place in 2012.  Much of the plan has already being implemented by Con Ed and the New York Power Authority. A...