Supreme Court ruling is bad news for consumers

April 30, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle It went nearly unnoticed in a week of royal matrimony and birth certificates. The Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court gave corporations a major victory at the expense of consumers…. The case blesses shady business tactics. Firms can get away with credit card overcharges, unauthorized fees or a phony [...]

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Procedural failure resulted in Vermont Yankee steam leak – Brattleboro Reformer

Procedural failure resulted in Vermont Yankee steam leak – Brattleboro Reformer. Saturday April 30, 2011 BRATTLEBORO — A leak in a steam trap line at Vermont Yankee was attributed to “a failure to follow procedures that resulted in incorrect gasket material being used as a replacement for spiral wound gasket material,” according to a licensee [...]

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Grand Theft Bernanke, The Quantitative Easing Scam is Exposed

Apr 29, 2011 – 05:44 AM                      By: Mike_Whitney It’s the biggest flim-flam in the nation’s history. But, thanks to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the scam has been exposed and the public can now get a good look at the type of swindle that passes as monetary [...]

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Burlington Wake-Up! to ICLEI and the “Kiss” of a Greenwash Agenda

At the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco on June 5 (World Environment Day), 2005, every mayor in attendance signed two documents – the “Green Cities Declaration” and the “Urban Environmental Accords”. The first is the declaration that the mayors of all the cities of the United States and the world are going to be [...]

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VSNAP sticks to closing of VY

Thursday April 28, 2011 VERNON — About 50 people attended the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel meeting in the Vernon Elementary School gymnasium on Wednesday… During the meeting, Chris Campany, executive director of the Windham Regional Commission, gave a presentation on the economics between two facility decommissioning processes SAFSTOR and DECON. The Windham Regional Commission [...]

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Bernie Sanders “the most right wing extremist piece of legislation that I have ever seen in my life.”

From Bernie Buzz – Americans are outraged about a House-passed budget bill that would destroy Medicare and Medicaid, put Social Security at risk and give $1 trillion in new tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporations. Republicans rammed the bill through the House on a party-line vote the same day Congress adjourned for its [...]

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Lakeside NY town hauls away thousands of dead fish

Associated Press MORIAH, N.Y. — Crews are cleaning up the thousands of dead fish that have washed up along Lake Champlain’s New York shoreline, including a stretch where public campgrounds and beaches are being prepared for opening this spring. Lakeside residents in Vermont began reporting thousands of dead alewives showing up along the shore earlier [...]

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Utility rejects contract to buy Vermont Yankee power

(Reuters) – A utility in Vermont rejected a contract to buy power from Entergy Corp’s embattled Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Tuesday. The board of directors at the Vermont Electric Cooperative, the third biggest power distribution company in the state, voted nine to one to reject a 20-year offer from Entergy to buy power [...]

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Pioneer Valley women among those arrested in anti-nuke protest at Vermont Yankee

By Patrick Johnson VERNON, Vermont – Seven long-time Pioneer Valley activists were among 11 women arrested Friday afternoon after chaining themselves to the main gate of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in an attempt to shut the facility down. The protest, coinciding with the observance of Earth Day, sought to have the controversial nuclear [...]

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Thousands in France mark Chernobyl with protests

By Arnaud Bouvier (AFP) STRASBOURG, France — Thousands staged anti-nuclear protests around France on Monday, demanding reactors be closed on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl and after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident. Between 6,000 and 9,000 mostly German activists took to different bridges on the Rhine between Germany and France, AFP journalists reported, [...]

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Thousands march to protest nuclear power

Protesters in Basel and Bern have had their say on the controversial topic of nuclear energy. Some 2,000 people from Switzerland, France and Germany gathered in Basel on Monday for a parade demanding the shutdown of the ageing nuclear plant in Fessenheim, north of Basel. They carried banners reading, “Nuclear power, no thanks” and “Shut down [...]

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Japan: Damaged Nuclear Plant Released More Radioactive Material Than Previously Estimated; Thousands Call for Nuclear Moratorium

Japan: Damaged Nuclear Plant Released More Radioactive Material Than Previously Estimated; Thousands Call for Nuclear Moratorium. Democracy Now! Newly released data from the Japanese government indicates radioactive material was leaking into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Number 1 Unit in far greater quantities than previously estimated. The Daily Yomiuri newspaper reports the level [...]

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Lawmaker calls for tough law against VY

By CHRIS GAROFOLO / Reformer Staff          Monday April 25, 2011 BRATTLEBORO — State Rep. Richard Marek will introduce a bill this week that would make it a criminal enterprise to operate a nuclear plant in Vermont without receiving the approved permit from state lawmakers and the Public Service Board. Marek, a [...]

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Genetically Modified Maize Trial in Mexico Prompts Debate

By Paulina Perlin In a controversial move, the Mexican government has authorized transnational corporation Monsanto to conduct a field trial of genetically modified (GM) maize that could potentially lead to the crop’s commercialization. Though Mexico has approved 67 permits for GM maize to be experimentally grown since lifting its ban on transgenic crops in 2005, this [...]

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Entergy files detailed case for injunction

The Commons VERNON—Building a more detailed argument for their April 18 request for an injunction to keep the Vermont Yankee nuclear power station operating during legal action, the two Entergy Nuclear subsidiaries that own and operate the Vermont Yankee substation have filed a memorandum of law in U.S. District Court in Burlington. Friday’s filing by [...]

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