While there have been few road changes during that time that could potentially affect the recommended evacuation routes, the region’s population has seen a small increase. Other factors that would affect an evacuation may have changed, too. All those issues will be taken into account in the new evacuation plan being prepared by Dominion, owner
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Millstone Nuclear Power Station is beginning to study possible changes to its evacuation plan as it does every 10 years. Part of the “update” will be a phone survey of residents in the 10 towns that are closest to Millstone including Ledyard, Montville, and East Lyme. The phone calls are slated to begin Monday, Feb.
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In addition to earning his Eagle Scout award, a Montville teen has been honored with a national conservation award from the Boy Scouts. Ian McNatt, 18, is only the second Scout from the Boy Scouts Connecticut Rivers Council, which includes most of the state, to earn a William T. Hornaday Badge, an award for distinguished
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Officials from the parent company that owns Montville Power LLC believe that a plan to convert one of its generation units into a biomass system would bring jobs to the town at a time when AES Thames is closing. For more on this story, visit: The Day – Montville utility hopes to bring jobs to
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Stephen E. Scace, a former leader at Millstone Power Station, is returning here from the Kewaunee reactor in Carlton, Wis., to replace A.J. “Skip” Jordan as Millstone site vice president. Jordan, Millstone’s site vice president, likewise will replace Scace at the Wisconsin plant, which is up for sale. The changes are effective Jan. 1. For
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Montville officials are waiting to find out how the sale of AES Thames, a coal-fired power plant with assets totaling $162 million, will affect the town’s tax revenue.
The group’s mission is to abate and prevent pollution of the Niantic River, a unique estuary, and its watershed, which includes parts of East Lyme, Montville, Salem and Waterford.
Montville, Conn. — AES Thames, a 20-year-old coal fired power plant in Montville that produces and sells electricity for Connecticut Light & Power, will close its doors temporarily as its parent company restructres after filing for bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court Tuesday. via Montville coal plant to remain temporarily shut down – Norwich, CT
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Coal ash buried at the NRG Energy power plant property is continuing to pollute groundwater and soil with arsenic, beryllium and other heavy metals at levels higher than those considered safe, a study released Thursday by three environmental groups shows.
The NRG plant was the only Connecticut site among 39 listed in the report from the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and the Sierra Club about the dangers of coal ash wastes to groundwater and surface water supplies, Judy Benson of The Day reports.
