After only a few weeks of organized opposition by citizens,
including Satilla Riverkeeper and activists from as far away as Waycross,
mighty DuPont has had to think again about mining Wayne County near Jesup.
Not given up, but at least not just breezing through unnoticed.
Update 2014-08-28 14:00: Greenlaw Press Release.
Terry Dickson wrote for jacksonville.com 27 August 2014, DuPont withdraws application for permit to mine more than 2,200 acres in Wayne County, Continue reading
We still don’t know what tripped the control rods on Constellation Energy’s Ginna nuclear reactor on the shores of Lake Ontario near Rochester, NY on Wednesday; the nuke remains down.
Staff reports for Democrat and Chronicle.com yesterday,
No estimate on when Ginna nuclear plant will be back online,
The Ginna nuclear power plant in Wayne County remained shut down Friday afternoon, 48 hours after it went off line unexpectedly due to a generator problem.
No estimate was available of when the plant would go back into service, said Maria Hudson, spokeswoman for Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, the plant’s Baltimore-based owner.
“We’re continuing with our repairs,” she said.
The 581-megawatt plant on the Lake Ontario shoreline, the largest in the Rochester area, ceased producing electricity Wednesday afternoon when Continue reading