Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to Close by 2021

[SilentShadow 32]

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The Indian Point nuclear plant will shut down by April 2021 under an agreement New York State reached this week with Entergy, the utility company that owns the facility in Westchester County, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/nyregion/indian-point-nuclear-power-plant-shutdown.html?_r=0

[BIGRED1 71]

Oh this should end well for everyone. Where will they be getting all this new energy? Canada? Really? Wind Farms? That should be able to create the same amount of energy of a nuclear power plant. I know Indian Point is old and could use a updating but you cant just cut a quarter of the power and think everything is gonna be ok.

[kinkchaser 352]

It is just Gov. Cuomo preparing for his run for President in 2020, this will attract the enviormental  crowd and his recent appearance with Bernie to announce free college tuition in New York State will attract those who believe that.

[fire patrol nyc 153]

New York didn't have the money to send tax refunds out on time...where in the hell will they get the money for free college?Maybe higher taxes for those who WORK  instead of living off the public dole....let those butt holes worry about 2017 and not a run in 2020...God save the USA.....

P.S....I would love to see Indian Point closed,come up with an alternative source of power and we'll talk...

[fdalumnus 165]

Power plant being built in middletown (orange county) and another in Dover (dutchess). still not enough to offset the closing of Indian Pt. 

 

Cuomo talks about getting (aka buying) power from "our friends up north" (Canada) Maybe I'm wrong, but here we are, supposedly dependent on foreign oil, now he wants us to be dependent on foreign electricity. He's worse than his father, who sold the state down the river. 

[BIGRED1 71]

All those people in the area are gonna have heart attacks when the tax bill come in and the Plants contribution is not there. Nice when your tax bill quadruples cause the plant which kicked a lot of cash into the area is gone.

[BBBMF 158]

Clean, safe, abundant energy.  Why would anyone want Indian point to close???  That is simply moronic.  Go to progress.org if you want answers to this question.  Cuomo's pockets have once again been lined with money from special interest groups and huge gas companies.  Indian point is one of the safest places in America.

[SOUSGT 357]

I heard on the radio this morning that the Governor did not even have the courtesy to contact the mayor of Buchanan (the municipality were Indian Point is located) to discuss the subject. She found out about it by reading the NY Times. 

 

 

[BBBMF 158]

Correct,  and he didn't even have the decency to return her or anyone else's phone calls.  Where do they find the blind imbeciles who vote for this guy?!?!

[dpfd144 5]

LOL, history is repeating itself here. 

 

If you want to know what fallout (sorry) will come from a major nuclear power plant closure, just look at what happened 25+ years ago when Andrew Cuomo's father Mario Cuomo was the governor of NY state, and pushed agreements to shut down Long Island's brand sparkling new Shoreham nuclear power plant.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/nyregion/cuomo-and-lilco-sign-a-new-accord-to-shut-shoreham.html?pagewanted=all

 

The electricity customers on Long Island got hosed on that one, and instead of getting cheaper electricity rates from the nuclear plant , they have paid some of the highest rates in the country for the past 25 years. 

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/lipa-electricity-among-priciest-in-northeast-1.11937361

 

The school district where the Long Island plant was located, which used to be one of the best school districts in the whole country also got hosed when they lost a major source of school tax revenue. 

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/12/nyregion/the-fallout-of-the-demise-of-shoreham.html?pagewanted=all

 

There are a lot of reasons why Mario Cuomo was eventually voted out of the NY governor's office, but the anger of many Long Islanders over the forced Shoreham nuclear plant shut down was part of it.   I'm surprised our current governor does not think that the Indian Point shutdown will have a similar political blowback to his political career..

 

Also, Is it really a good idea to switch a major portion of NYC's energy supply to come from a 333 mile long electric line from Quebec, Canada??? 

 

 

Edited January 10, 2017 by dpfd144
fixed soem grammer

[SOUSGT 357]

17 hours ago, dpfd144 said:

LOL, history is repeating itself h

 

If you want to know what fallout (sorry) will come from a major nuclear power plant closure, just look at what happened 25+ years ago when Andrew Cuomo's father Mario Cuomo was the governor of NY state, and pushed agreements to shut down Long Island's brand sparkling new Shoreham nuclear power plant.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/nyregion/cuomo-and-lilco-sign-a-new-accord-to-shut-shoreham.html?pagewanted=all

 

 

At the time Shoreham cost 4 billion to build. It never came on line, I believe that the State reimbursed LILCO for most of these costs.  In the past, the biggest obstacle to closing Indian Point was who was going to pay for the cleanup costs that would last for up to 10 years. If the State closed IP, Albany would be responsible for the costs. If the NRC refuses to renew their licenses or the plants reached the end of their lives then Entergy would bear the costs.

Funny, none of the articles mention who will pay for the cleanup? Personally. I would love to see Cuomo in a white (or better yet orange) jumpsuit with a broom and a bucket for a few years draining the uranium pools.