Energy
Nuclear power is a rigged game that lets the federal government preempt state and local governments on most issues, according to Karl Grossman, professor at the State University of New York and author of a book on the subject, Power Crazy: Is LILCO Turning Shoreham Into America’s Chernobyl.
But he thinks that there is a way around the problem: using the power of eminent domain, a legal principle that allows states to condemn property if the owner refuses to sell. In the area of nuclear power, the approach was pioneered in New York during the 1980s to stop the completed Shoreham nuclear plant from...
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Defying the will of Vermonters, Entergy Nuclear has successfully won the first stage of its trial to allow it to break its word and to usurp the rights of the Vermont legislature. Judge J. Garvin Murtha effectively delivered a slap in the face to the people of Vermont by saying that [contrary to prior Supreme Court judgements] the legislature has no right to regulate the operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor. The Public Service Board is now the only state entity that has the power to decide VY's future. The judge...
WHEN: Tuesday, January 17th at 6:00 pm
WHAT: Forum with Panel discussion and Q&A to address what will happen when Vermont Yankee (VY) shutters in 2012. A three-person panel will talk about the federal court case of Entergy vs State of Vermont, VY transition, clean-up, long-term waste storage and the role citizens can play in the process.
WHERE: Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT
WHO: Deb Katz, Executive Director of the Citizens Awareness Network; Chris Williams, Organizer for Vermont Citizens Action Network Robert Stannard, Citizen Lobbyist for the Vermont Citizens Action Network Denis...
Vermonters gather at the State Capitol to remind their legislature of it's duties to work the well-being and Human Rights of all Vermonters
MONTPELIER- Yesterday marked the beginning of Vermont's 2012 Legislative Session. In addition the usual and expected activities going on in the chambers the State Reprentatives and Senate, this year's opening day witnessed a remarkable number of consituents as they journeyed through single digit temperatures to make their voice heard in the Capitol...
Oh my! Did he say the 'S' word? But then again, isn't all this talk about energy independence, food sovereignty and political independence really just a conversation about secession?
Vermont’s ‘energy secession’ goal: 90 percent renewables by 2050
Cross-posted from Grist
Vermont is known for its lush Green Mountains, idyllic farm landscapes, and progressive politics. What many people may not realize...
Photo by Dylan Kelley
In a crowded hall of the Rutland Free Library, a mass of people are huddled together. They are speaking excitedly and directly on this cold Tuesday night in December. This is the health care Listening Session put on by the State...
This week, with a nod to the onrushing holiday, and various freight trains of dread barreling down the track at us, I want to take a break from the usual concerns and talk about something else: why Hollywood exemplifies our worst collective blunder of the historical moment: our techno-narcissism.
I went to the cineplex at the mall late yesterday afternoon - also a break, after a month of moving and shlepping to another house - to see the new Martin Scorcese movie, Hugo. The story told is a sort of frame for an homage to one of the pioneers or movie-making, Georges Méliès, a French "illusionist" (magician) who made over...
Here's where the left/right political lines evaporate into meaninglessness, and we are forced to realize that there are only two political options: Local control and self-government, or central-state-government control and fascism. Centralist or decentralist. Those are the only real political paradigms we have. Everything else is a fictional choice.
99% of Democrats and Republicans are Centralists who want to eliminate all of our rights to self-government and control everything from distant corporatist bureaucracies.
Many sustainability activists and progressives like Richard Heinberg and Mike Ruppert have realized that decentralization is the only path to sustainability and...
The Washington-led decision by NATO to bomb Gaddafi’s Libya into submission over recent months, at an estimated cost to US taxpayers of at least $1 billion, has little if anything to do with what the Obama Administration claims was a mission to “protect innocent civilians.” In reality it is part of a larger strategic assault by NATO and by the Pentagon in particular to entirely control China’s economic Achilles heel, namely China’s strategic dependence on large volumes of imported crude oil and gas. Today China is the world’s second largest imported of oil after the United States and the gap is rapidly...
Roy Blankenship is back in the coal business. He is free as a bird and back in the coal business after his company paid a measly $200 million fine (the fact that this is a record breaking fine just makes this more depressing) for knowingly endangering the lives of his workers in order to make more money. The government's investigation...
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