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Education and Enrichment for Everyone: Enabling Renewable Energy Integration with Grid Flexibility 11/10/2023

Mads R. Almassalkhi, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UVM.

For more information visit: eeevermont.org

Nuclear Free Future: Power Struggle - The Closing of Vermont Yankee 10/20/2017

Nuclear Free Future host Margaret Harrington talks with Robbie Leppzer about his documentary film POWER STRUGGLE which has its world premiere at the Vermont International Film Festival in Burlington on Sunday, October 29. Leppzer made the film over a period of 5 years following citizen activists and elected officials with his camera as they battled nuclear officials about the increasing safety violations at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education join the discussion to tell the story of how their research exposed Vermont Yankee officials.

For more information, visit www.fairewinds.org and www.powerstrugglemovie.com

Nuclear Free Future: Nobel Peace Prize 2017 - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons 10/09/2017

Host Margaret Harrington reads the letter to supporters from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on their winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The nine nations who have nuclear weapons have not signed the treaty to abolish nuclear weapons. They are the United States, China, Russia, Great Britain, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, and North Korea. ICAN modeled their campaign on the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which with its American Coordinator, Jody Williams, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Jody Williams speaks in Vermont at the first statewide Nuclear Disarmament Day observed on August 6th, the day the United States bombed Hiroshima.

Nuclear Free Future: Radioactive Russian Roulette - The 2017 Nuclear Crisis 09/18/2017

Nuclear Free Future host Margaret Harrington talks with Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog of Beyond Nuclear, about the situation in the Korean Peninsula today. The discussion ranges from where North Korea got the materials for their nuclear capabilities to the uranium bank set up by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Kazakhstan. Drawing on his decades of activism, Kevin Kamps gives us a perspective that connects the issues of nuclear waste, nuclear arms escalation, the relaxing of security around Vermont Yankee, and the Trump Administration nominees for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and presents us with a coherent challenge.

For more information, visit www.beyondnuclear.org

Veritas: Victims of Industrial Wind 03/04/2016

Host Brett Gaskill speaks with Steven and Luann Therrien on their experience with an industrial wind project in Sheffield, VT. The Sheffield project consists of 16 turbines. The nearest turbine to the Therrien's home was less than 3/4 of a mile away. 5 were within 1 mile, and all 16 within 2 miles. The Therriens moved from Sheffield after 18 years due to the health problems they faced.

Veritas is sponsored by greenmountainpatriots.org

True North Reports TV: Vermont's Energy Policy 04/17/2015

Host Robert Maynard speaks with Guy Page from Vermont Energy Partnership (www.vtep.org).
www.truenorthreports.com

True North Reports TV: The Chain of Environmental Command 03/20/2015

Host Robert Maynard discusses a July 2014 United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Minority Staff Report entitled: 'The Chain of Environment Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA'.

The environment is a serious issue but is being skewed by a handful of super rich. Where is that money coming from and what agenda is it pushing? We all want a pristine environment, but are these concerns being hijacked for another purpose?
www.truenorthreports.com

Public Service Board Public Hearing South Burlington Solar Project 06/01/2010

The Vermont Public Service Board public hearing the planned construction of 380 solar panels, on a nearly 40 acre parcel of land in South Burlington, of of Dubois Drive. The panels will sit atop computerized trackers that automatically track the sun across the sky, and are expected to produce enough energy to power 400 Vermont homes. Burlington-based VESCO, is the applicant.

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