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The New York state Public Service Commission held two virtual public hearings Tuesday on the proposed license transfer for the Indian Point nuclear power plant. The hearings are to help determine whether the PSC should exercise jurisdiction over the proposed transfer. The plant in Westchester County is slated to permanently shut down at the end of April.
More than 50 speakers delivered comments during the afternoon hearing, which ran about four hours. The speakers ranged from elected officials to union members to environmentalists to residents outside New York who have seen Holtec operate in their communities. In November, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the license transfer from Entergy Nuclear to Holtec International, as owner, and Holtec Decommissioning International, as decommissioning operator. Theresa Knickerbocker is mayor of the Village of Buchanan, home of Indian Point.
PROVINCETOWN Researchers with the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium have selected new names for 18 whales in an effort to better study the endangered species.
While naming North Atlantic right whales has been a common practice by researchers for several years, the concept of formally naming whales got its start in Provincetown.
In the 1970s, Charles “Stormy” Mayo, director of the right whale ecology program at the Center for Coastal Studies, was a young researcher who would lead whale watches as a naturalist to make money in his spare time. He was one of the founders of the Center For Coastal Studies, which was in its infancy.
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