The Safe & Green Campaign was founded in 2006 in an urgent, grassroots, people powered effort to shut down Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vermont, on the Connecticut River a few miles from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. We … Continue reading
2021 Earth Week event Great River Survival Walk highlights eco-plight of Connecticut River, Saturday, April 24, 10:30am – 12:30pm Environmental justice for the Connecticut River will be the focus of a community walk through the beautiful French King Gorge to … Continue reading
Olga Peters of The Commons of Windham County updates us with her cover story on a new land inventory of the nuclear waste site. January 20, 2021 issue of Commons News 0596.pdf
PRESS RELEASE from NDCAP January 20th Special Meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Committee Announced; this inaugural meeting will identify the Committee’s initial steps regarding Federal policies. Montpelier, VT – The newly-formed Federal … Continue reading
“The issue is a perennial one: Will there be enough money to tear down, clean up and decontaminate the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant site in Vernon? And if the money runs out? What will happen?” The Brattleboro Reformer covered … Continue reading
On October 17, NorthStar hosted a press tour of Vermont Yankee. Only local press reports followed. Everything’s hunky dory. NorthStar must be feeling gleeful, anticipating the windfall from the leftovers in the decommissioning trust fund that will flow into their … Continue reading
Coming to Brattleboro on October 26! Film maker, professor and ecofeminist Heidi Hutner will be speaking about women, gender, and nuclearity, and showing a short from her film: ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: The Women of Three Mile Island. OCTOBER 26 1:30 … Continue reading
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding meetings around the country to get feedback on Community Advisory Boards from those living near nuclear power stations. Since soon after the announcement of closure in 2014, Vermont Yankee has had NDCAP (Nuclear Decommissioning … Continue reading
POWER STRUGGLE Film Screenings Thursday / Friday, June 6 and 7 at 7pm Northampton Center For The Arts 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA Saturday, June 15 at 7pm 118 Elliot Gallery 118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, VT Tickets: $12 … Continue reading
All are invited to celebrate Mothers Day this coming Sunday May 12th. The Liberty Union is hosting a gathering & program on the Brattleboro Common from 1:00-4:00pm, “honoring the work of millions of mothers who work for peace in homes, … Continue reading