Letters to the Editor
This week I witnessed a number of near accidents and arrived just after a fender bender in two different parking lots.
On July 2, I was leaving the Edgartown Stop & Shop with an overloaded basket of groceries.
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and design General Electric reactors at Fukushima still dangerously out of control, I think it is worthwhile reviewing just what the federal government’s rationale for spawning the commercial nuclear power industry was in the first place.
The Fourth of July is a tale in which we learned it is not unpatriotic to question authority, hence our independence of the king.
Retire Pilgrim
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
With the Pilgrim nuclear power plant now operating on an extended license and three of the same vintage and design General Electric reactors at Fukushima still dangerously out of control, I think it is worthwhile reviewing just what the federal government’s rationale for spawning the commercial nuclear power industry was in the first place.
The following letter was sent to Cape and Islands state Sen.