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VY News, Monday, May 24, 2004

1. Still supportive of NRC's role in VY uprate - Brattleboro Reformer(Towns, page 13, above fold, right side)

2. James Lovelock: Nuclear power is the only green solution - drudge.com

3. New England Coalition executive director earns master's degree - Brattleboro Reformer(Page 27, above fold, w/photo)

4. Missing fuel rods hard to believe - Brattleboro Ref ormer(Letter, page 4)

5. Hydo passage makes smiles - Rutland Herald(Front page, on fold)

6. BF dam wording lauded - Brattleboro Reformer(Front page, above fold)

6. Wind issue about more than aesthetics - Rutland Herald(Letter, page C2)

7. State to review proposed GMP rate redesign - Burlington free Press(Page 4A)

8. Green Mountain Power CEO Calls for dialogue on Vermont's Energy Future - eeionline~eei.org VY Daily News Monday, May 24, 2004 If you have news items to contribute contact Pat Lyman - plyma90Oentergy.com Brattleboro Reformer, Saturday, May 22, 2004(Towns, page 13, above fold, right side)

Still supportive of NRC's role in VY uprate By CAROLYN LORIt Reformer Staff <mailto:clorieW reformer.com>

BRATTLEBORO -- During a March 26 visit to the Reformer, Gov. James Douglas expressed confidence in the ability of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to oversee Vermont Yankee's "uprate" application.

That confidence does not appear to have been shaken.

"I'm pleased that the NRC was responsive to the state's request -- from the Public Service Board and my own request -- for a more significant assessment of the plant than was originally planned," said Douglas on Friday, during an interview at the Reformer.

On March 15, the Public Service Board issued a conditional certificate of public good for Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee's proposed 20 percent power boost. Among the stipulations was an NRC engineering assessment of the plant.

The commission announced on May 5 that it would satisfy the board's request.

"The NRC has assured me personally that this is the most comprehensive assessment ever done for an uprate application," said Douglas.

Since Douglas' March 26 interview, officials at Vermont Yankee announced the discovery of 20 cracks in the steam dryer, as well as the loss of two highly radioactive fuel segments.

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-P Criticism of the NRC also increased sharply, as the commission took more than two months to reply to the board's request and its resident inspector at Vermont Yankee, David Pelton, made assurances that all the spent fuel at the plant was accounted for. That assertion was made less than a month before the fuel segments were discovered missing.

'We should give the NRC credit for insisting on closer scrutiny than they did in the past," added Douglas, referring to the fact that it was Pelton who ordered the container that was supposed to house the two segments opened.

While his confidence in the NRC remains unchanged, he maintained that safety at the plant was a top priority and that Vermont Yankee's disclosure about the missing fuel was concerning.

'I expect the operators of nuclear power plants to keep track of fuel rods," he said.

Douglas, however, said that the primary role of the state was to assess the economic benefit of the plant, as safety is the sole purview of the NRC.

State Sen. Roderick Gander, D-Windham, disagreed.

"Technically he's right. That's only technically," said Gander In a telephone interview. "That's not good enough. The governor, because of his bully pulpit, can change the course of things. I hope he does."

Douglas did say that the state would keep a close watch on the NRC's assessment. He was unsure, however, if there should be citizen involvement in the process, something local advocacy groups have called for.

The governor said he did not yet have a position on whether Vermont Yankee should renew its license in 2012, saying that the immediate focus should be on the uprate application.

With Vermont Yankee possibly closing in eight years and the state's contract with HydroQuebec ending in 2016, many consider Vermont to be on the brink of an energy crisis.

OWe have to plan for our energy future," said Douglas, adding that renewables such as wind, solar and hydro power would be among the options explored.

State Rep. Sarah Edwards, P-Brattleboro, was critical of Douglas, saying that the governor has not done enough to invigorate the economic development of the state's renewable energy sector.

"We have 20 to 30 years of higher learning experts on alternative energy and renewable energy in this state," said Edwards. "We need to tap into their expertise."

Calling the governor's Initial energy plan a "disaster," Gander said that the Douglas administration fell far short of what the state needs in terms of energy planning. Not only is Vermont facing the potential loss of 60 percent of its power sources in the next 12 years, but it has one of the highest electricity rates in the nation.

This, said Douglas, inhibits business development, which is why he favors giving rate breaks to large businesses such as IBM.

Rep. Patricia O'Donnell, R-Vernon, agreed with this tactic, adding that Windham County would be well-served by adopting such measures.

While many have been critical of the governor's record on energy issues, O'Donnell was laudatory.

"I think overall he did very well," she said. "I think he has designed a plan that will lead us into the future."

Rick Ennis - VY News, Monday, May 24,2004

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Paqe 3 I Reformer staff writer Dan Watson contributed this report.

Drudge.com, Monday, May 24, 2004 James Lovelock: Nuclear power is the only green solution We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger 24 May 2004 Sir David King, the Government's chief scientist, was far-sighted to say that global warming is a more serious threat than terrorism. He may even have underestimated, because, since he spoke, new evidence of climate change suggests it could be even more serious, and the greatest danger that civilisation has faced so far.

Most of us are aware of some degree of warming; winters are warmer and spring comes earlier. But in the Arctic, warming is more than twice as great as here in Europe and in summertime, torrents of melt water now plunge from Greenland's kilometre-high glaciers. The complete dissolution of Greenland's icy mountains will take time, but by then the sea will have risen seven metres, enough to make uninhabitable all of the low lying coastal cities of the world, including London, Venice, Calcutta, New York and Tokyo. Even a two metre rise is enough to put most of southern Florida under water.

The floating ice of the Arctic Ocean is even more vulnerable to warming; in 30 years, its white reflecting ice, the area of the US, may become dark sea that absorbs the warmth of summer sunlight, and further hastens the end of the Greenland ice. The North Pole, goal of so many explorers, will then be no more than a point on the ocean surface.

Not only the Arctic is changing; climatologists warn a four-degree rise in temperature Is enough to eliminate the vast Amazon forests in a catastrophe for their people, their biodiversity, and for the world, which would lose one of its great natural air conditioners.

The scientists who form the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2001 that global temperature would rise between two and six degrees Celsius by 2100. Their grim forecast was made perceptible by last summer's excessive heat; and according to Swiss meteorologists, the Europe-wide hot spell that killed over 20,000 was wholly different from any previous heat wave. The odds against it being a mere deviation from the norm were 300,000 to one. It was a warning of worse to come.

What makes global warming so serious and so urgent is that the great Earth system, Gaia, is trapped in a vicious circle of positive feedback. Extra heat from any source, whether from greenhouse gases, the disappearance of Arctic ice or the Amazon forest, is amplified, and its effects are more than additive. It is almost as if we had lit a fire to keep warm, and failed to notice, as we piled on fuel, that the fire was out of control and the furniture had ignited. When that happens, little time is left to put out the fire before it consumes the house. Global warming, like a fire, is accelerating and almost no time is left to act.

So what should we do? We can just continue to enjoy a warmer 21 st century while it lasts, and make cosmetic attempts, such as the Kyoto Treaty, to hide the political embarrassment of global warming, and

Rick Ennis - VY News, Monday, May 24, 2004 Page 4 this is what I fear will happen in much of the world. When, in the 18th century, only one billion people lived on Earth, their impact was small enough for it not to matter what energy source they used.

But with six billion, and growing, few options remain; we can not continue drawing energy from fossil fuels and there is no chance that the renewables, wind, tide and water power can provide enough energy and in time. If we had 50 years or more we might make these our main sources. But we do not have 50 years; the Earth is already so disabled by the insidious poison of greenhouse gases that even if we stop all fossil fuel burning immediately, the consequences of what we have already done will last for 1,000 years. Every year that we continue burning carbon makes it worse for our descendants and for civilisation.

Worse still, if we burn crops grown for fuel this could hasten our decline. Agriculture already uses too much of the land needed by the Earth to regulate its climate and chemistry. A car consumes 10 to 30 times as much carbon as its driver; imagine the extra farmland required to feed the appetite of cars.

By all means, let us use the small input from renewables sensibly, but only one immediately available source does not cause global warming and that Is nuclear energy. True, burning natural gas instead of coal or oil releases only half as much carbon dioxide, but unburnt gas is 25 times as potent a greenhouse agent as is carbon dioxide. Even a small leakage would neutralise the advantage of gas.

The prospects are grim, and even if we act successfully in amelioration, there will still be hard times, as in war, that will stretch our grandchildren to the limit. We are tough and it would take more than the climate catastrophe to eliminate all breeding pairs of humans; what is at risk is civilisation. As individual animals we are not so special, and in some ways are like a planetary disease, but through civilisation we redeem ourselves and become a precious asset for the Earth; not least because through our eyes the Earth has seen herself in all her glory.

There is a chance we may be saved by an unexpected event such as a series of volcanic eruptions severe enough to block out sunlight and so cool the Earth. But only losers would bet their lives on such poor odds. Whatever doubts there are about future climates, there are no doubts that greenhouse gases and temperatures both are rising.

We have stayed in ignorance for many reasons; important among them is the denial of climate change in the US where governments have failed to give their climate scientists the support they needed. The Green lobbies, which should have given priority to global warming, seem more concerned about threats to people than with threats to the Earth, not noticing that we are part of the Earth and wholly dependent upon its well being. It may take a disaster worse than last summer's European deaths to wake us up.

Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. These fears are unjustified, and nuclear energy from its start in 1952 has proved to be the safest of all energy sources. We must stop fretting over the minute statistical risks of cancer from chemicals or radiation. Nearly one third of us will die of cancer anyway, mainly because we breathe air laden with that all pervasive carcinogen, oxygen. If we fail to concentrate our minds on the real danger, which is global warming, we may die even sooner, as did more than 20,000 unfortunates from overheating in Europe last summer.

I find it sad and ironic that the UK, which leads the world in the quality of its Earth and climate scientists, rejects their warnings and advice, and prefers to listen to the Greens. But I am a Green and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy.

Even if they were right about its dangers, and they are not, its worldwide use as our main source of energy would pose an insignificant threat compared with the dangers of intolerable and lethal heat waves and sea levels rising to drown every coastal city of the world. We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use nuclear - the one safe,

Rick Ennis - VYNews, Monday, May 24, 2004 Page5{

available, energy source - now or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet.

The writer is an independent scientist and the creator of the Gaia hypothesis of the Earth as a self-regulating organism.

Brattleboro Reformer, Saturday, May 22, 2004(Page 27, above fold w/photo)

New England Coalition executive director earns master's degree KEENE, N.H. - On Saturday, May 1, Peter Alexander, execu-tive director of the New England Coalition, graduated from Anti-och New England Graduate School (ANE) in Keene on May 1 with a masters of science degree in Environmental Studies. Alexander was one the first three students ever to complete the new Environmental Advoca-cy and Organizing program. ANE is the only graduate school in the country to offer such a program.

"Antioch New England Gradu-ate School takes special pride in conferring the Master's in Envi-ronmental Studies on Peter Alexander, whose current work represents the highest values of our institution," said Peter Temes, President of ANE. "We strive to create leaders who con-tribute to social justice and the long-term sustainabiity of com-munities and the environment. Mr.

Alexander is a proud exam-ple of that leadership."

In December 2003 Alexander was hired as the first-ever Exec-utive Director of the New Eng-land Coalition (NEC), which since 1971 has been a leading critic of the nuclear industry and a strong voice for alterna-tives to nuclear energy in the region. NEC is currently an 'intervenor" in the Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee "extended power uprate" case before the Vermont Public Ser-vice Board.

'The NEC Board of Trustees congratulates Peter on his con-siderable academic achieve-ment,' said Diana Sidebotham, president of the NEC Board.

NThe NEC has for 33 years based its actions and opinions in sci-ence, research, and law, and a deep understanding of complex issues. Peter's credentials and expertise will continue and enhance our efforts to help bring about a safer, sustainable energy future for our earth."

Brattleboro Reformer, Saturday, May 22, 2004(Letter, page 4)

Missing fuel rods hard to believe Editor of the Reformer:

The case of the missing fuel rod pieces is quite amazing. One would like to ask if an employee may have taken the pieces out of the storage area and off site in their lunch bucket. I don't think so as they and many others would now be dead. The tight regulations that one is supposed to follow when moving any amount of highly radioactive material should have left a trail a mile wide. It is hard for me to conceive that there are no employees still at the plant that may have been there in 1979 that could remember if the pieces were shipped off site or not.

If these records can not be found then maybe it is time to shut this potential problem unit down. When records as important as the tracking of any radioactive material become missing, one can only wonder if any of the records that Vermont Yankee may have on the plant are worth the paper they are printed on.

Rick Ennis - VY News, Monday, May 24, 2004 Page61 Our safety and future living in this beautiful part of the world may be in jeopardy.

Robert T. Lober Westminster Rutland Herald, Saturday, May 22, 2004(Front page, on fold)

Hydro passage makes smiles

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By SUSAN SMALLHEER Herald Staff BELLOWS FALLS - Many in Rockingham were smiling Friday, as the town finally had legislation clearing the way for it to take over the hydroelectric dam at Bellows Falls and sell off the excess power.

"We're ecstatic. There were a lot of broad smiles In Rockingham today, it's been a long three years, three going on four," said Lamont Barnett, chairman of the Rockingham Select Board.

In the closing hours of the 2004 Legislature, a bill authorizing the town to own out-of-state property and to sell unused power finally won passage.

In exchange, the town agreed to give up its right after Jan. 1, 2005, to use eminent domain to take over USGen's dam for the next 1 0 years.

The town currently has an agreement with USGen that gives it until Dec. 1, 2004, to complete a $72 million deal with USGen New England, the bankrupt owner of the hydro dam.

"Now we're a little freer to do different things," Barnett said, noting that the town's first choice remained a partnership with the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority.

Rockingham, which formed a municipal utility last year but currently doesn't have any customers, would only use 15 percent of the power generated at Bellows Falls.

Lining up a signed contract for the surplus 85 percent is vital to the town's drive to buy the dam.

According to its option with USGen, it has until Dec. 1 to come up with the $72 million.

Rep. Michael Obuchowski, D-Rockingham, worked hard to get the Rockingham bill passed in the closing weeks of the session. It was finally attached to the $40 million capital bill by the Senate Institutions Committee, although it faced a tough challenge in conference committee.

He and others said it was touch-and-go until Thursday.

"It was quite a dance for two, three weeks," Obuchowski said.

The Rockingham bill had had _a rather tortuous history, he said. It was introduced in 2002, and was passed by the Senate and eventually by the House, but died in conference committee.

The bill was reintroduced in 2003, and after being passed on a strong vote in the Senate, it again languished in the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee for more than a year.

Obuchowski credited the work of the town's hydro attorney, Richard Saudek of Montpelier, for his work in getting the bill passed in the closing weeks of the session..

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Obuchowski added, referring to the two chairmen of the Senate and House Institutions Committees.

Obuchowski, a former House speaker, said the bill in the previous session had failed to gain the support of House Speaker Walter Freed, R-Dorset.

According to Illuzzi, a member of the conference committee, the Rockingham bill was coupled with the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers' power authority, and legislation affecting the Peterson dam in Milton.

"I don't know why they were lumped together just because they are all dams," he said Friday.

"It was high-stakes poker at the end," Illuzzi said, noting he was working to get the new power authority for the purchase of the Connecticut and Deerfield hydroelectric systems.

Saudek, the town's attorney, said Wood had concerns that the state was, in the case of the Peterson dam on the Lamoille River, legislating its removal, while on the other hand encouraging another town to buy a hydro dam.

"It was a siege," Saudek said, noting that the Rockingham language was the last item to be negotiated Thursday afternoon that was part of the key capital bill.

The six-megawatt Peterson dam is owned by Central Vermont Public Service Corp. But it is considered by the Agency of Natural Resources, Trout Unlimited and the Vermont Natural Resources Council to be a major impediment to the salmon and sturgeon fishery on Lake Champlain.

The dam is part of a network of four dams on the Lamoille River owned by CVPS. It blocks fish access to three miles of prime spawning ground, Illuzzi said.

CVPS reached an agreement with the state and the two environmental groups, along with the town of Milton, to remove the 50-foot-tall dam in 20 years. The $17 million cost of removing the Peterson dam would be paid by CVPS customers.

Under the new legislation, the Public Service Board must hold public hearings in Milton about the dam removal plan, which has run into local opposition.

The Peterson dam agreement still has to be approved by the Public Service Board.

Contact Susan Smallheer at susan.smallheer@rutlandherald.com.

Brattleboro Reformer, Saturday, May 22, 2004(Front page, above fold)

BF dam wording lauded By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN Reformer Staff <mailto:hwtisman@reformer.com>

ROCKINGHAM -- It took three years to pass, and in the end it may not be necessary to use, but state legislators and local officials involved with the town's bid to acquire the Bellows Falls generating station applauded the inclusion of the "Rockingham wording," in this year's capital construction bill.

By including "the town of Rockingham," in sections of the capital bill, the town now has the authority to

Rick Ennis - VY News, Monday, May 24, 2004 Page 8, purchase land in New Hampshire and sell excess power, two important provisions it needed if it were to pull off the $72 million purchase of the Connecticut River facility.

The capital construction bill appropriates funding for a number of projects around the state, but it usually includes bills tacked on by legislators in the final days of the session.

Sen. Vince Illuzzi, R-Essex-Orleans and chairman of the Senate Institutions Committee, worked to include the Rockingham wording. He said on Friday that it was one of the last parts attached to the capital bill late Thursday night before the Legislative session came to a close.

"The town can use this to hold the feet of PG&E to the fire," Illuzzi said. 'This will force the company to negotiate in good faith."

PG&E and its subsidiary USGen own the Bellows Falls Dam, along with the series of dams on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers. The company is in bankruptcy, and a Maryland court is deciding on its assets.

'I am elated," said Rep. Michael Obuchowski, D-Rockingham. "It has been a three year endeavor and it proves that if you inch toward something it can happen.'

The bill has been in and out of the capital bill over the last three sessions, Obuchowski said. He credited Illuzzi for finally making it stick during this year's final negotiations. Obuchowski said special interests, namely the electric utilities in the state, did not want Rockingham to have the power to form a municipal utility.

"Persistence is power," he said. "That is the essence of democracy: Letting the people do what they want to do."

Rockingham is working to partner with the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority in purchasing the 49-megawatt plant. The town would become a VPPSA member, and if that happens the bill will not be necessary because VPPSA would own the plant, and it has authority to own New Hampshire property and sell excess power.

Rockingham selectboard chairman Lamont Barnett said, however, that the wording is an important step and the town has been waiting a long time for it to happen.

"It has been a major focus of the town, and of the town's elected representatives for three years," Barnett said. "I think the partnership with VPPSA is our best option, but it is not the only option. This allows us to negotiate and it keeps everybody grounded."

Rutland Herald, Sunday, May 23, 2004(Letter, page C2)

Wind issue about more than aesthetics I am appalled by the accusations that wind power should not be built because it gives an "industrial" feeling. Several people have written letters to this effect. I have a few questions to ask them.

Do hydro dams not also look "industrial?" Does the acid rain created from coal or natural gas burning not also give an 'industrial" feel? Do the huge bunkers that will be storing used nuclear fuel rod until they are safe sometime in a few millennia, not also look "industrial?"

I ask how a wind farm gives any more of an "industrial" feel than an abandoned radar station?

I ask where will our power come from in the future? By 2015 our two largest power sources, Vermont Yankee and Hydro Quebec, will have gone offline. Wind power is as clean as power generation gets, and

Rick Ennis -VY News, Monday, May_24, 2004 Page9 is a free resource. Unfortunately solar is not viable because of our latitude.

Personally, I would like to live in a state that is powered by clean energy.

Ben Zabriskie Middlesex Burlington Free Press, Saturday, May 22, 2004(Page 4A)

State to review proposed GMP rate redesign

<http://gcirm.burlingtonfreepress.com/RealMedia/ads/click nx.ads/news.burlingtonfreepress.com/busines s/businessstory/@ Framel > By Shawn Turner Free Press Staff Writer The state wants to take a closer look at Green Mountain Power Corp.'s proposed reshuffling of the rates it charges customers.

GMP in March filed a petition with the Public Service Board to redesign its rates. The Department of Public Service has since asked for a prehearing conference, which will determine a schedule for the case. The proposed changes are not intended to bolster revenue for the utility, company officials said, but rather to ensure that the rates they charge customers are in sync with how much it costs to provide that power.

'It's more of a fine-tuning," GMP spokeswoman Dorothy Schnure said.

CEO Christopher Dutton said revenue would not increase if the redesign is approved.

James Volz, director for public advocacy with the department, said the department wants to make sure the changes will indeed be 'revenue neutral."

'The primary reason for the investigation Is to make sure that all the changes the company has proposed for its rate schedule are good and valid," Volz said.

State and company officials said it is standard practice for hearings to be held when a power company starts talking about changing rates.

I've never heard of a rate design that wasn't suspended and investigated and I've been here almost 20 years,' Volz said.

Colchester-based GMP wants to reduce the rate it charges residential customers by 0.71 percent. The reduction means the average customer, who is charged $83 a month, will see his or her bill go down by 59 cents each month.

The biggest rate reduction will be for outdoor lighting, which GMP intends to drop by 16.13 percent. The highest increase would be for station service, the backup electricity provided to plants, which is planned to go up 18.66 percent.

Originally, GMP had slated a 29.57 percent jump for the rate it charges cable television companies, but that figure was revised to a 3 percent increase after an error in the company's spreadsheet was discovered, Schnure said. The change in the cable television rate will have a 'negligible" effect on the rest of the rate structure.

The last time a rate redesign of this type was passed for GMP was December 1994.

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Page 10j "it has been some time," Dutton said.

The hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at the Chittenden Bank building in Montpelier. Volz said the case could last between seven months and a year.

GMP serves 89,000 customers in nine counties in Vermont, including 75,500 residential customers.

Contact Shawn Turner at 660-1852 or sturner~bfp.burlingtonfree press.com eeionlone eei.org, Friday, May 21, 2004 Green Mountain Power CEO Calls for Dialogue on Vermont's Energy Future At Green Mountain Power's annual meeting yesterday, company president and CEO Christopher L. Dutton called on Vermont's citizens to get more involved in determining the state's energy future, saying Vermont soon will need to start making energy choices for the next two decades. Contracts for more than two-thirds of the company's power supply will expire in the next decade, as Vermont Yankee's nuclear license expires in 2012 and a long-term contract with Hydro Quebec ends in 2015.

Said Dutton: "In making these choices we have to keep our eye focused on the following imperatives:

First, affordable energy at competitive prices; second, reliance on diverse fuel sources that reduce price risks for all Vermonters; and third, reliance on fuel sources that keep our environmental impact as low as feasible, with special attention on air emissions."

Green Mountain Power will hold public meeting around the state over the next 18 months, beginning this fall.

Separately, Institutional Shareholder Services, an independent advisory company, rated Green Mountain Power among the best companies in the country for its corporate governance practices.

Green Mountain Power press release via Business Wire, May 20.