Thursday, April 22, 2010

New York State has denied a water-quality certification sought by the Indian Point plant's owner.

From the New York Times:
In a major victory for environmental advocates, New York State has ruled that outmoded cooling technology at the Indian Point nuclear power plant kills so many Hudson River fish, and consumes and contaminates so much water, that it violates the federal Clean Water Act.
The decision is a blow to the plant’s owner, the Entergy Corporation, which now faces the prospect of having to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build stadium-size cooling towers, or risk that Indian Point’s two operating reactors — which supply 30 percent of the electricity used by New York City and Westchester County — could be forced to shut down.

1 comment:

22a-rbZD.007 said...

What I notice immediately, is the US-THEM adversarial mindset of the writer.

Is the DEC action truly a "Blow" to Entergy?

Entergy claims in all its PR to be environmentally proactive, and DEC has simply provided them an opportunity to install a system first slated to be built in 1978, but interminably delayed by the previous owners, NY State and Consolidated Edison.

Indian Point earned $436 million in profit last year.In 20 years that becomes $8.7 billion in profit.

Seems a no-brainer...install the $1 billion device, take $7.7 billion profit, and serve the region responsibly.

No "blows", no fight, just good business