re: #517 Sigma_x

So fuck it, right? Lets just let babies and old people drink it whether they like it or not. All so the nuclear power industry’s profits aren’t hampered by too much regulation.

This isn’t even about my being in opposition to building any more nuclear power plants - I’m all for it. It’s the old ones I’m worried about, and the right wants to leave things just the way they are, all in the name of free-markets and lashing out against some vague threat of “too much government.”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the GOP has become a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America, and it’s time we stopped pretending they’re an honest player in any debate. If the right had their way, these old nuclear power plants would go right on polluting the shit out of South Jersey’s drinking water. To what end?

To be fair this actually being pursued by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection which is now under the control of newly elected Republican Governor Chris Christie. The spill occurred while Democratic Governor Corzine was in office. During his governorship Corzine was rather slow regarding any action at Oyster Creek.

“Corzine could effectively end all this right now, but he keeps playing all sides,” says Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. “He’s got to choose if he’s a friend of the public or of the corporate interests that were his buddies on Wall Street. If he chooses wrong, Barnegat Bay could very well be dead in twenty years.”

There was also this:

Key environmental group calls Corzine ‘hugely disappointing’ and backs Christie
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter

Citing a string of broken promises from Gov. Jon Corzine, New Jersey’s largest environmental group today backed former U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie for Governor - the first time the organization has endorsed a statewide Republican since its inception.

Members of the political arm of the New Jersey Environmental Federation - which endorsed Corzine in 2005 — said they were “hugely disappointed” by Corzine’s first term environmental record. They specifically mentioned his lack of action in working to create more cooling towers for nuclear plants, a drop off in waterway protection, lack of a commitment to environmental justice and failing to takes sides on a proposed coal plant in Linden.

Republican Governor Christie is also opposed to offshore oil drilling.