Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance

*HELP THE STATE DECIDE ITS ENERGY FUTURE – WITHOUT NUKES! *

In October, a series of public workshops will be held in different towns to secure input about the future mix of electricity sources. At the end of each workshop, participants will vote on their preferred mix. The results will be presented to the legislature.

Therefore it is very important that Vermonters who oppose nuclear energy attend one of the workshops and vote!

Voting privileges may be limited to the first 150 persons who register for each workshop. So choose the location nearest you (see below) and ** REGISTER NOW * *

To register, go to this website: http://www.raabassociates.org/WebComponents/vtsignup/welcome.htm

Locations and dates:

Oct. 3, 2007 St. Johnsbury Elementary School
Oct. 17, 2007 South Burlington High School
Oct. 18, 2007 Montpelier Elks Club, Montpelier, VT
Oct. 29, 2007 Dean Technical Center, Springfield, VT
Oct. 30, 2007 Rutland Intermediate School, Rutland, VT

More info:

Five evening public workshops will be held in locations throughout the state
this fall. You can attend the workshop closest to you. These workshops were
authorized by the Vermont Legislature, endorsed by the Governor, and
spearheaded by the Department of Public Service.

The goal of the workshops is to gather informed and thoughtful citizen and
ratepayer input for the State and its electric utilities as they make decisions
about how and where Vermont obtains its electric power for the coming decades.
In 2012, contracts providing for two-thirds of the state’s electric power begin
to expire. This leaves the future source of Vermont’s electricity open for
discussion and examination.

Choices about the future will have to be made and will weigh trade-offs among
cost, reliability, environmental impact, large and small scale generation, and
in versus out-of-state sources

All workshops will begin at 5:30 p.m. with light dinner fare and a prompt start
at 6 p.m. and end around 10.

From CAN

H.520 is finally up for hearings in Ways and Means Committee this week where they are looking at a couple of tax provisions. The main components of the bill will not change in that committee and we expect to see it come to a full floor vote in the house next week. If you have friends in Mike Obichowski’s district (Rockingham-BF) then a few friendly phone calls voicing support for H 520 would be helpful, but no real pressure is needed at this point.

S.94 is another story. We need to watch what happens in the next day or so, before we know how this building efficiency utility will go. The Senate leadership, Ann Cumming and Sue Bartlett in particular, wants to gut the funding from S.94 and punt it to the PSB as a study. Read the bill at http://www.leg.state.vt.us/database/status/textonly.cfm

It would be good if people have the time to call from these districts - Ann Cummings (Washington County), Sue Bartlett (Lamoille County), Jim Condos (Chittenden County). Here is what you can say.

‘We’re excited about figuring out ways for everyone to use less heating oil and particularly for low income housing stock to be more energy efficient. We can’t wait for a study. We’re counting on you to support S.94 with funding.”

All can be reached at the Sergeant at Arms, Statehouse 800-322-5616 toll free or (802) 828-2228

Ann Cummings acummings@leg.state.vt.us 802-223-6043
Sue Bartlett sbartlett@leg.state.vt.us 802-888-5591
Jim Condos jcondos@leg.state.vt.us 802-238-3809