NEW YORK TAKES AIM AT INDIAN POINT
By Bill Tucker
Bowing to environmental extremists, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has put up a roadblock to the relicensing of Indian Point 2 and 3 by arguing the plants violate the Clean Water Act.
The DEC announced it will require Entergy, the nation’s second largest owner of nuclear reactors, to build a $1 billion system of cooling towers in order to protect fish life. The reactors’ licenses expire in 2013 and 2015. The DEC’s decision would prevent Entergy from applying to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for relicensing.
Entergy said the cooling towers would cost more than $1 billion and would require the plants to shut down for ten months. Indian Point 2 and 3 generate 2000 megawatts of baseload electricity, between 25 and 33 percent of the power consumed in New York City and Westchester County.
The confrontation promises to be a national melodrama, pitting one of the most rabid environmental constituencies in the country against the needs of the New York City economy. Westchester County activists, led by celebrity environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, have argued that Indian Point’s 2000 MW can be easily replaced by a natural gas plant on the site. But the same activists spent the last decade opposing the Millennium Pipeline, which was designed to bring Canadian gas across the Hudson to Indian Point and then on to New York City by 2000. The DEC ultimately ruled that running the pipeline under the river would damage ecosystems and so it was built through New Jersey instead.
Whether New York environmentalists will now demand the pipeline be rebuilt to feed the natural gas plants that will supposedly replace Indian Point is just one of the many questions that will hang before the public in coming years.
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