Friday, March 26, 2010

A Heck of a Job

Dear God,

My head throbs. My heart aches.

We are trying to build trust with Vermonters outraged by the lack of "nuance" in our communications with the Public Service Board and certain oversight whatevers about underground pipes. "Now is the time to rebuild the confidence Vermonters have in Entergy," we said to the assembled media at a press conference we called on Thursday morning.

We have [quoting from our own press release of 10 am March 25] "embarked on a six-point, fleet-wide initiative to become an industry leader in tritium leak prevention, detection, and mitigation. The six-point initiative includes benchmarking industry best practices, prioritizing structures, systems and components, improved inspection techniques, and improved strategies for prevention, monitoring and mitigation of leakage." Wow, Lord. Leaders! Wow.

I had high hopes of this all turning out to be a plus for Entergy Vermont Yankee. “This team has proven that a difficult problem can be solved with the right combination of expertise, experience and willingness to work day and night to see the project through to successful completion,” our press release quoted Entergy Site Vice President Mike Colomb as saying in gratitude to the investigation team "for the dedicated, careful, and thorough approach it took in investigating, identifying and stopping the tritium leak." Yes! The music swells! The crowd surges forward, tears of relief and happiness running down once-concerned citizens' adorable faces!

But then, Mark Savoff, Entergy’s executive vice president for operations, said to reporters that, with regard to tritium, we did a heck of a job.

A HECK OF A JOB?????


Do you remember, Lord, what happened the last time someone did a heck of a job?











How can we expect the people of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts to trust us to run an aging nuclear power plant when we can't even run a PR campaign?

Amen,

Fake-Rob

4 comments:

Colin Tedford said...

Maybe you could spin it by pointing out the lack of tritium leaks in any of those photos?

claire said...

but maybe they did lie about the leeves??? or misrepresent them?

claire said...

or is that leaks, lies and leeves playing soon at the latchis? since Entergy is from Louisiana of course...can't wait to see David McElwee describing how remote inspection is not as good as "putting your hand on the member."

but oh dear, he is on administrative leave.

Who can we trust?

Anonymous said...

you really need to get a life. it's obvious that you will never even try to understand the issue as you are so blind with your bias point of view. you have a platform to highlight your ignorance, and a steady group of tools following you.