Entergy lawsuit against Vermont re Vermont Yankee nuclear plant should wind up today

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Speaker: Entergy failed to show public good to Vt Legislature
House speaker: Entergy failed to show public good
By SUSAN SMALLHEER September 14, 2011


BRATTLEBORO — House Speaker Shapleigh Smith testified Tuesday that without a new power contract between Entergy and the state’s two main utilities last year, it was hard to see the public benefit or “good” to the state in keeping Vermont Yankee open.

“The public good was economical power,” he said. “It was hard to understand what the economic benefit was.”

Those economics and the finances of the reactor’s decommissioning trust fund — and not safety — were the Legislature’s main concerns, Smith said.

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Also on the stand Tuesday was Entergy vice president Jay Thayer, who was disciplined and transferred out of Vermont by his Entergy bosses in January 2010 for misstatements he made under oath to the Vermont Public Service Board regarding the existence of underground pipes at Vermont Yankee. The pipes, which Thayer and other Entergy officials had said didn’t exist, came to the public’s attention when they leaked radioactive tritium....

Good article at: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20110914/NEWS02/709149946/1003/NEWS02