While I fully support permanently shutting down rickety old Pilgrim nuclear this week, I'm agnostic on nuclear power in general. Sixty years into the nuclear era, it remains disaster-prone and we have no answers (never mind good ones) when … [Read more...]
Who Won Storm’s Energy Reliability Test, Wind or Nuclear?
Former Dancin' With The Stars contestant and current U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has a bonkers plan to force ratepayers to subsidize coal and nuclear power in the name of "reliability." Not because Republicans are beholden to existing … [Read more...]
Pilgrim Nuclear to Shutter in 2019
Entergy announced today it plans to shutter the aging, rickety Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth in 2019. Ironically enough considering the energy debate on Beacon Hill focuses on how to lower energy costs, Entergy cited low energy … [Read more...]
Plymouth Zoning Board Ignores Law, Blocks Wind Turbine
If you're going to deny a local business the right to do what it wants on its own property, shouldn't you have an actual reason? Not according to the Plymouth Zoning Board, which rejected a local Stop & Shop's request to build a wind … [Read more...]