The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the Millsboro Fire Company Banquet Hall. DNREC will provide an overview of a proposal to shut the coal-fired unit and will receive public feedback about the proposal.
See: “DNREC negotiating permanent shutdown of additional coal unit at Indian River Power Plantâ€
Obama accepts the Nobel peace prize with an ode to war and imperialism that could have been straight Kipling. Continue reading
Many readers will know about this issue–Green Delaware has written about it quite a bit, and recently even the mainstream press has been paying some attention.
Technically, the problem is simple: Big bad industrial sites–mainly, in Delaware, Conectiv’s Edge-Moor Power Plant, Valero’s Delaware City Refinery, and NRG’s Indian River Power Plant–pump hundreds of millions of gallons of water out of the Delaware River and Rehoboth Bay every day. DuPont, Sunoco, and others are also offenders. The biggest single offender is the Salem/Hope Creek nuclear complex across the river in New Jersey. Continue reading
Federal government says Invista, after cleanup, will kill 30 fewer people per year.
Today Governor Jack Markell’s office announced the nomination of Collin O’Mara to head the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC). Continue reading
Public comments needed by March 15, 2009
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Defend Delaware’s laws against incineration!