Exelon, which owns the Ginna nuclear power plant, has agreed to buy the FitzPatrick plant in Oswego for $110 million. That means that Exelon will own all three of Upstate New York’s nuclear power generators. And all three are struggling. In recent years, each of the plants has been flagged by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission […]
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UR raises concerns about proposed RG&E-Ginna contract
The region’s largest private employer has some serious concerns with a proposed contract between Rochester Gas and Electric and the struggling Ginna nuclear power plant. Under the proposal, RG&E would temporarily prop up Ginna — with RG&E’s customers paying the bill. In a May 1 letter to the Public Service Commission — a state regulatory […]
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Reader feedback 7.21.04
WXXI and ‘Democracy,’ the schools crisis, moving billboards, the Ginna sale
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News briefs 8.13.03
Growing up a golfer As a member of the Calhoun (Long Island) High Golf Team, I was a pariah of the jock-ular caste system. No cheerleader worth her pom-poms would have ever even considered dating me. It would have been an athletic faux pas of the highest order, almost as bad as saying “No” to […]
