Pols call for IP safety assessment
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Westchester County legislators passed a resolution this morning endorsing the idea of an independent safety assessment of Indian Point, on the same day that area members of Congress “stood together”:http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070212/UPDATE/702120371 to announce a new bid for federal legislation to do just that.
County legislator Tom Abinanti, D-Greenburgh, called the situation one of those “rare circumstances” when people pushing for the plant’s closure and those who believe it is safe can come together behind a study that could determine which side is right.
“You can’t do enough inspections of a facility such as this,” agreed Board Minority Leader George Oros, R-Cortlandt. But Oros said if the plant is proven safe, he hoped naysayers would reconsider their stance.
“I’m certainly willing to roll the dice,” he said.
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John Hall has been trying to shut down Indian point for three decades. He is bought and paid for by the environmental lobby and offers no viable solutions to the energy shortfalls that would occur if Indian Point was shut down.
Moreover, Hall’s inclusion of New York City as part of the area that would be affected in a crisis at Indian Point is an old ploy to scare wealthy Manhattanites into making contributions to anti-nuke candidates like Hall and the environmental organizations that bankrolled his campaign.
Finally, the NRC, National Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Homeland Security and Giuliani Partners have declared Indian Point safe. I live in Peekskill, just a mile from Indian Point, and I’ll take the word of Rudy Giuliani et al over a self-serving guitar player from Woodstock any day.
How does one cleverly leverage a supposed “fact-finding” bill, proposing just an inspection of Indian Point, into a slam-dunk “Kill-Bill”, intended to simply close Indian Point, no matter WHAT any inspection finds there?
Simple. Just include in the inspection, some provision to look into the local emergency plan.
County leaders have grandstanded about the plan, and opted out of improving it, or cooperating with it, even though it pertains for other emergencies than a strictly Indian Point emergency.
Legislating that this defacto stand-off must be “inspected” is a dodge, and a misnomer. Any “inspection” can only show county non-participation as a “failing grade”, when it is NOT Entergy, FEMA, or NRC, who is failing, it is the counties.
Therefore deviously using this county failure as a hidden legislative monkey wrench pre-installed in a supposed “inspection legislation” will easily elevate prior county sabotage, into a poison pill, designed from the outset to wreck Indian Point, our tax rates, and our electric rates, not to mention our local infrastructure viability. This same stunt was used to close Shoreham, which Long Islanders will tell you is sorely needed, now that their electric rates are the highest in the USA. What level of imaginary “security” is required for people to live in this region? How “safe” will it be when no new power plants are built, and our streets become unwalkable? The decay to follow will not require terrorists to bring it here. It is already coming here undocumented illegal by undocumented illegal, and only needs lack of jobs, fewer cops because of lost taxes, and darkened streets (as in a blackout), to express itself fully, a kind of slow motion horizontal world trade center attack, right in our town centers. For what? to re-elect Spano? To pay back John Hall’s anti-nukes for voting right?
One could only hope that a “full, rigorous” truth-finding inspection would result from this bill, but the inspection results will be ignored, mark my words. The intent of the bill is NOT to inspect anything. Its intent, modeled on the Shoreham brouhaha, is to allow county non-participation in emergency planning to be leveraged into a pseudo-legal “Close Indian Point” argument. It is a sham piece of legislation, whose result can never be good enough for legislators to say: “We are satisfied, you can have your electricity”.
It’s intent is to harrass, and corral, NOT to inspect.
The fix is in.
If this hocus-pocus shell game is allowed to play out, It will leave the area without power, without 1205 jobs, and without 10,000 vendor-supplier jobs, as well as without the 768 million dollar cash input Indian Point provides locally.
GUESS WHERE THAT TAX SHORTFALL WILL COME FROM?
That’s right, people.
It will come from you, blackout, or no blackout.