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Oct 23

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NUKE MATTERS: America’s Hometown Goes Nuclear

The following is the first in an ongoing series of articles being published in the Old Colony Memorial newspaper of Plymouth and on the Wicked Local website.

U.S. Map of Nuclear Power Plants

Graphic published by Old Colony Memorial newspaper/Wicked Local Plymouth website, courtesy of NRC/CNN Money.

By Karen Vale
Campaign Coordinator
Cape Cod Bay Watch

Published Oct. 18, 2012

In the late 1950s, the peaceful use of atomic power became a symbol of progress and a hopeful future to Americans – a solution to impending shortages of fossil fuels, an icon of scientific achievement and a way to promote cooperation among nations. The first U.S. commercial power station opened in 1958 in Pennsylvania, and within 20 years there were 58 nuclear power facilities in operation in the U.S.

By the 1970s, however, safety and environmental problems associated with nuclear reactors gained increasing attention. This became especially true after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear disasters in 1979 and 1986, respectively. Click here to read the rest of this article.

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Oct 16

Living on Earth Interviews Ecolaw Attorney About Clean Water Act Violations, Notice of Intent to Sue

Citizens Sue Nuclear Facility
Living on Earth 

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photo credit: Living on Earth

A group of Massachusetts citizens is planning to use the Clean Water Act to sue the Entergy Corporation for environmental violations at their Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. The group says the company should pay nearly a billion dollars in penalties. The citizens’ lawyer, Meg Sheehan, laid out the details of the case to host Steve Curwood, and Vermont Law School Professor Patrick Parenteau explained the wider context.

Click here to read the full transcript.

Click here to listen to audio.

Sep 13

Cape Cod Bay Watch

Media Coverage: Cape Cod Bay Watch Opens Main Street Office

“Watch,” that’s the word that, by design, stands out on the new logo for Cape Cod Bay Watch, a “volunteer public interest group dedicated to stopping Entergy ’s destructive ‘once through’ cooling water operations at its nuclear reactor.”

CCBW wants residents of the area who are used to looking at the sails and the sunsets and the whales breaching in the waters of Stellwagen Bank to take a second look at those waters. Watch, they say , what’s going across the country , where “once through” cooling is no longer permitted because of concerns about its effect on local waters.

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May 29

News Coverage After the Relicensing

A few news stories from the weekend regarding Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s vote to relicense the plant and the operational shutdown.

May 14

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Sagamore Bridge Protest – May 13, 2012

Read about Sunday’s protest against relicensing the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station along the Sagamore Bridge leading to Cape Cod. Click here.

May 14

Radio Interview: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Fight Heats Up in Massachusetts

Click here to listen to an interview with Pine DuBois, executive director of the Jones River Watershed, Pilgrim Coalition member Anna Baker and Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear on Sounds of Dissent Radio.  Audio courtesy of Sounds of Dissent Radio.

Here is the program description:

Political fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is fueling local opposition to the Pilgrim Nuclear Reactor in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The aging facility’s operating license expires on June 8, 2012, and its owners want a 20-year extension. It looked like it had a green light from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which recommended an approval vote. But out of nowhere, local opposition to the license grew and spread from town to town, stiffening the backs of state and Congressional representatives, the state Attorney General, and the Governor, who urged the NRC to deny the vote until outstanding public safety and environmental concerns can be resolved. The organizers of that remarkable effort join us for this interview. With South Shore activists Anna Baker and Pine Dubois of the Pilgrim Coalition, and Paul Gunter of the DC-based group, Beyond Nuclear. Live radio interview by Amy Grunder, first aired on “Sounds of Dissent” on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston on 2012-05-12.

Feb 10

Jones River Watershed Association claims Pilgrim power plant endangers Cape Cod Bay life

KINGSTON — Last fall, as part of the celebration of the removal of a dam on the historic Jones River, Jones River Watershed Association Executive Director Pine duBois spoke of her organization’s – and her personal – ongoing education on the unseen connections between the health of the river and the health of other connected bodies of water.

They can remove dams and sources of pollution on the river, duBois said, but if the organization wanted to ensure the river’s health well into the future, it needed to look beyond the river to its headwaters, Silver Lake, and to its connections to Cape Cod Bay.

Today that broader vision has brought the JRWA into conflict with a powerful corporate entity and the federal government. Read more: Kingston, MA – Frank Mand, Wicked Local Kingston – Jones River Watershed Association claims Pilgrim power plant endangers Cape Cod Bay life

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