{"id":3571,"date":"2011-01-15T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T22:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2011-01-17T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:29:47","slug":"massena-going-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/15\/massena-going-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Massena going nuclear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big buzz around St. Lawrence County this weekend is Massena officials have broached the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/news\/local\/Should-Massena-Pursue-Nuke-Plant-113625854.html\">attracting a nuclear plant to town<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference yesterday, town supervisor, Joe Gray, and village mayor, Jim Hidy, said they&#8217;ve been &#8220;kicking around&#8221; the idea for some time.\u00a0 Hidy said it could bring &#8220;a generational change&#8221; to a town hammered by closures,\u00a0 jobs cuts and attrition at the General Motors, Alcoa, and Reynolds plants over decades.<\/p>\n<p>The pair said they&#8217;d set up an exploratory committee to start looking into details and soliciting opinion from local residents.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s remember this: this is the basic area that&#8217;s tried to lure a major aquarium, a massive NASCAR racetrack, and a 20,000 cow feedlot-meets-ethanol plant.\u00a0 Oh, and did I mention the underground atomic supercollider?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, none of those happened.<\/p>\n<p>Gray and Hidy acknowledged the process of attracting a nuclear plant would take at least a decade, if it happened at all.\u00a0 And they deserve credit for raising the proposal as a topic of public conversation at the very earliest stages.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely created a buzz.\u00a0 Supporters are salivating about hundreds of jobs.\u00a0 Opponents (I&#8217;ve seen a flurry of e-mails on a local environmental activist listserv I monitor) are already kicking into high gear to fight the idea.<\/p>\n<p>What would you think about having a nuclear reactor in your backyard?\u00a0 (Aside from getting to live out your &#8220;I&#8217;m Homer Simpson&#8221; fantasies&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big buzz around St. Lawrence County this weekend is Massena officials have broached the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,883,4819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}