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Shumlin Calls for Vote On VY Relicensing - Soon

Authored by: cgrotke on Tuesday, February 16 2010 @ 08:50 PM GMT+4

I'd like to say hats off to Vermont reporters covering VY.

Bob Audette, Susan Smallheer, and many others have been doing a great
job with a difficult subject that is often a story in flux.

Thank you all.

Shumlin Calls for Vote On VY Relicensing - Soon

Authored by: annikee on Wednesday, February 17 2010 @ 03:02 AM GMT+4

I'll second that. I'm glad they've taken the gloves off at last.

What about the House?

Authored by: PutneyReject on Tuesday, February 16 2010 @ 10:25 PM GMT+4

If the House doesn't take it up won't it just end up as posturing for Dumblin's run for governor?

Oh the Irony....

Authored by: mr.mike on Wednesday, February 17 2010 @ 12:56 AM GMT+4

Shumlin anounces this on the day that the President anounces the first new nuclear loan guarantee in 30 yrs. I wonder what kinda reception Ol' Barack would get in Brattleboro if Entergy got one of these loans.

This is the one area where Obama is showing that he actuallt gets it.

Maybe he needs to "campaign" in Vermont

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Oh the Irony....

Authored by: tomaidh on Wednesday, February 17 2010 @ 10:36 PM GMT+4

Regardless of the posturing, few, if any nukes will be
built.
The reason has nothing to do with the
appropriateness of nuclear power, the risks, nor the
problems associated with nuclear waste.
They just aren't feasible in this economic climate.
That means, that the return on investment is not
sufficient: There's not enough cash in the economy
to support the cost of power necessary to justify
building them.
This, of course is subject to change.
If the Nanny State provides sufficient subsidy to
encourage investment, It will happen.
But where will the money come from?
Privatization of Social Security?
Elimination of Medicare?
End of public schools?
It certainly will NOT come from the dismantling of our
war machine.

Oh the Irony....of you being duped

Authored by: tiny on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 12:37 PM GMT+4

Your comments are fading as you falling in a deep ravine after being
thrown overboard by the President of the United States.

Obama wants Nukes in the energy mix. He has said that for a long
time. He declared his support for them the other day. It was than
broadcast around the world.

It is, what it is.

Not paying attention?

Authored by: pjmelton on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 01:47 PM GMT+4

Obama has been supportive of nuclear power all along. I don't actually know a single progressive who did not know this, since it was in every single stump speech, along with the oxymoronic "clean coal," from the get-go.

A lot of conservatives seem to think we have been duped, but I don't know anyone - except a few anonymous/pseudonymous people online who were probably concern trolls - who actually thought Obama was some kind of progressive purist. We liked him because when he managed to win the primary, he effectively snapped the neck of the DLC. It hasn't done much good in the short term, but he is a long-term thinker, and in that way is someone that everyone can respect and learn from. You don't have to idolize someone to respect him, and I think this is something that right-wing thinkers are just temperamentally unable to understand - that other people can think in shades of gray instead of black and white. That you can like Obama and want him to succeed and ALSO have critical things to say about him.

Not being able to understand this is actually quite hazardous. It is killing our political system, as anyone in the other party who does not snap into line is basically ousted. "Party discipline" is one thing, but this is like "Party OCD" or something. Thinking in black and white is pathological, and the people of this country are suffering because of it. And unfortunately, Obama has zero to do with it. He is a rational thinker, and you just can't reason with utterly tribal-minded people who look around them and only see Uses and Thems.

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Oh the Irony... of most knowing this all along

Authored by: cgrotke on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 02:25 PM GMT+4

Obama was in favor of nukes all along - one of the reasons I felt he was
closer to the right than the left.

He also loves coal. Maybe we can replace VY with a new coal burning
plant.

Old King Coal

Authored by: Maus Anon E on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 05:56 PM GMT+4

Well, Obama loves clean coal technology.

AND unicorns.

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What about the House?

Authored by: ScottMcCarty on Wednesday, February 17 2010 @ 01:16 AM GMT+4

Correct me if I am wrong but if the Senate votes to re-license the plant and the bill fails -- then that means it is over. You need both chambers to agree and it does not need gubernatorial approval.

So, it looks like this may be over and done with very soon. 2 weeks maybe?

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What about the House?

Authored by: Bob Bady on Wednesday, February 17 2010 @ 01:23 AM GMT+4

This Vote will Happen on Wednesday, Feb. 24, if you are interested in going to Montpelier for the vote, and want to car pool go to the <safeandgreencampaign> web site in the next few days.