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Where our power comes from (The Courier News)
Dusk falls. You flip on the 75-watt light bulb on the ceiling of your front porch. Twelve hours later, the sun blazing strong, you start the coffee, walk out sleepily to pick up the morning paper and flip off that light.Roundup (The Herald News) Braidwood is moving forward with a downtown revitalization project.During a recent city council meeting, Commissioner Jim Hutton reportedthat the city expects asbestos abatement measures to be taken this weekin the buildings slated to be demolished.
Lampe: Positives are afloat on the Illinois River (Peoria Journal Star) For all the obvious problems with flooding and Asian carp, there are less publicized stories of success to be told along the Illinois River. Ducks Unlimited has helped write several of those tales in recent years by protecting wetlands and backwaters along the river. The latest DU conservation project involves Pluckeman’s Slough — a 1.5-mile stretch of backwater that links the Illinois River ...
Vermont Senate wants Entergy reactor shut in 2012 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The Vermont Senate on Wednesday voted to close an Entergy Corp nuclear power plant in 2012, citing discovery last month of a leak releasing radioactive tritium into the groundwater.
Vermont State Senate votes to close tritium leaking nuclear power plant, tarnishing confidence in Obama nuke build-out ... (Bellona Foundation) NEW YORK – In what could be the first backlash against the Obama Administration’s warm endorsement of nuclear power as a climate saving energy technology, the Vermont State Senate voted 26 to four Wednesday to shut down that state’s radioactive tritium leak-prone nuclear power plant, Vermont Yankee.
The Fishing Line: What's hitting and where (The Times of Northwest Indiana) NOTE: There is still some safe ice out there, but ice-fishingseason is coming to an end. Remember, safe ice for fishing is 4inches. Wear a life jacket.
Vermont Senate wants Entergy reactor shut in 2012 (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News) The Vermont Senate said on Wednesday it has voted to shut Entergy Corp's Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant when its license expires in 2012, after a leak releasing radioactive tritium into the groundwater was discovered last month.
'First lady of Route 66' dies (The Herald News) If the Mother Road had a mom, it would be Lenore Weiss. "She was the first lady of Route 66," said Rebecca Barker, spokeswoman for the Joliet Visitors Center. Lenore fought a two-year battle with cancer before her road ended early Monday morning.
Vermont Senate Wants Entergy Reactor Shut in 2012 (CommonDreams.org) by Scott DiSavino NEW YORK - The Vermont Senate said on Wednesday it has voted to shut Entergy Corp's Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant when its license expires in 2012, after a leak releasing radioactive tritium into the groundwater was discovered last month. While the Obama administration advocates a nuclear revival to reduce dependency on foreign oil and greenhouse gas emissions, opponents ...
Vermont Yankee activists lauded (Brattleboro Reformer) BRATTLEBORO -- Anti-nuclear activists around the country are doffing their hats to the people who have been fighting the relicensing of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, said Paul Gunter, director of Beyond Nuclear's Reactor Oversight Project, during a public forum at the Latchis Theatre on Sunday.