VT CAN agrees with Entergy Nuclear: Vermont Yankee is "unbelievable"

Curt Hebert, a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman and now Entergy’s executive vice president for external affairs -- "its top in-house lobbyist" -- has been tapped to lead the damage control team trying to regain the trust of Vermont's public, legislators, and regulators after its spokesmen lied under oath about the existence of buried pipes that are now likely the source of concentrated leaks of hazardous radioactive tritium into groundwater on the banks of the Connecticut River. After Hebert said in  a recent interview that Vermont Yankee is "an unbelievable plant run by unbelievable people," Bob Stannard (pictured at left), "the people's lobbyist" at the Vermont Statehouse for the grassroots Citizens Awareness Network, issued a media release agreeing: "It is an unbelievable plant. We've been told that the plant is safe, reliable, and clean. It appears to be none of the above. The cooling towers collapsed, it's caught fire, radiation at the fenceline has increased and now it is leaking a radioactive isotope into the groundwater. It is an unbelievable plant. Those in charge of the plant have repeatedly, under oath, misled officials of the State of Vermont, regulators and legislators. Those who would say something that is not true, under oath, are, indeed, unbelievable. We would agree that the plant is run by unbelievable people." The Vermont chapter of the Citizens Awareness Network has helped lead the campaign to block Vermont Yankee's 20 year license extension.