Southern Vermont
Digest,
Monday, July 14, 2003
July 13, 2003
Yankee ordered to give more info
The Associated Press
BRATTLEBORO
— The Public Service Board
has ordered officials at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to provide more
information to an anti-nuclear group.
Hearing Officer David
Farnsworth said Thursday that Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee officials had not
complied with a board order and called for them to make better sense of the
information they had provided.
“Given the volume of
documentation provided both electronically and in hard copy, Entergy should have
made a greater effort to organize the information in a manner that would make it
more readily accessible,” Farnsworth wrote in his recommendation that was
adopted by the board.
Farnsworth was called in on
Wednesday after members of the New England Coalition said the plant’s
offerings consisted largely of hundreds of untitled, randomly arranged
documents, some of which had hundreds of pages missing or deleted.
Farnsworth asked plant
officials to arrange indexes and tables of content for the documents as well as
identifying authors and giving other pertinent information related to the
documents.
New England Coalition
staffer Ray Shadis hailed the order as a major victory for those seeking more
information about the plant’s proposed power increase.
“Active citizens can now
get ahold of this information,” Shadis said.