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Opinion: Closing Indian Point Puts Phantom Risks Ahead of Real Perils

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  • Brian Campbell
    Posted May 1, 2020 at 1:14 pm

    Excellent!

  • Valerie Gardner
    Posted May 3, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    It is sad that green partisanship has aided and abetted the already fundamentally corrupt campaigns by fossil fuels to replace nuclear. The net result, billions spent on new plants that enable fossil fuel interests—this time in the natural gas incarnation—to dig their claws into us and the energy grid we rely on to ensure that large markets remain addicted to these lethal fuels. If environmental groups could relinquish their anachronistic blood-thirst for nuclear and focus on today’s real threats, namely the things that are killing thousands of people every year—climate change and air pollution, now worsened by covid-19—they would be allied entirely with those groups working to protect our sources of clean energy and enable political leaders to transition us to 100% clean energy through the proper order of operations, namely replacing lethal fossil generation first. Once we are no longer emitting any carbon, then we should definitely go back and modernize our oldest sources of clean generation. But this is something Governor Cuomo understands completely. Unfortunately, he’s just playing the political game and trying to boost his popularity with those who don’t really have any interest or expertise in addressing climate. In fact, the words “climate change” don’t even appear on the Riverkeeper website. Which clearly doesn’t make them the authority on what’s actually best for New Yorker’s clean energy or clean air.

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