Political Quotes

“Admiral Williams strongly condemned the malfeasance and nuclear endangerment attendant to the top managers and corporate chieftains, and that kept on year after year after year. As I have cautioned before, corporate nuclear culture influences safety culture. We need only look at the troubled history of multiple major nuclear safety violations and criminal conduct at FirstEnergy's Davis-Besse nuclear plant in our district for evidence of this relationship. It is a sad story for America. One must ask whether and how the fines and penalties at FirstEnergy and its subsidiary, Energy Harbor, have had to pay to avoid criminal and civil trials. How will America deter future misconduct by the commercial nuclear power energy companies? Federal regulators didn't do their job. What is clear is that more justice must be achieved to make Ohio ratepayers and our communities safe and whole again. A class action suit settled by FirstEnergy in August of last year netted payments to individual ratepayers--get ready--a mere $10 to $20. Moreover, Ohio consumers continue to subsidize FirstEnergy's antiquated coal-fired power plants even outside Ohio under the portion of HB6 that passed the State legislature that has yet to be repealed. Another casualty is the local school district in Oak Harbor, Ohio, where the Davis-Besse plant is located.…”