Re: IP Takeover? -Politics & Paranoia

[Stewart Farber <radproject@optonline.net>]

5/26/04 8:46:02 AM, Rick Orthen <rorthen@cecinc.com> wrote:



>  Date:        Wed, 26 May 2004 08:46:02 -0400

>  From:        Rick Orthen <rorthen@cecinc.com>

>  Subject:     IP Takeover?

>     May 26, 2004 - Associated Press - W'chester mulls nuke takeover -

>

>     Westchester County is spending $385,000 to determine whether the county

>     could take over the Indian Point nuclear plants, shut them down and

>

>     replace them with another energy source. Among the issues to be tackled

>

>     in a five-month study by a consultant is what such a takeover would cost

>     and how Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of energy - enough for 2 million

>

>     homes - could be made up, County Executive Andrew Spano said yesterday................

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Hi all:

I don't recall who said it, but this news report brings it to mind the quote:

"Ignorance is society's most toxic waste."



Just what the Northeast needs: 2,000 MW[e] of additional gas fired electric generating capacity  

driving

up costs to every homeowner who heats with gas. Natural gas prices skyrocketed last winter for  

homeowners due to natural gas shortages since New England is at the end of supply pipelines. Maybe 

Spano would rather have LNG supply ships regularly docking in NYCity harbor to unload LNG from 

Algeria to supply  his proposed gas fired power plants. Perhaps he thinks docking LNG supertankers 

and the nearby storage tanks in Brooklyn across the East River or the Hudson in NJersey from 

NYCity will  make people feel safer than the operation of IP's nuclear plants. 



The ratepayers of NY State pay to decommission IP's units and the environmental problems of 

greenhouse  gas emissions  [although slightly less CO2 with gas than coal per MWe] are worsened. 

What a farce this Spano is creating. Wasting $385,000 to hire some anti-nuclear consultant who 

will certainly come up with conclusions that Spano wants to hear. One definition I've heard of a 

consultant:



"A consultant is someone you hire to tell you what time it is, and the first thing they do is ask 

to borrow your watch."



It's unfortunate politicians like Spano can waste their constituents money like this to make 

themselves look good and pose as if they are protecting the interests of the public.



Stewart Farber









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