Residents say Entergy poll biased

October 12, 2007

MONTPELIER — A telephone survey apparently done this week on behalf of the Vermont Yankee plant's parent company, Entergy Nuclear, has irked some Vermonters who got the calls. They complained that the questions were slanted and designed more to influence their opinions than gauge them.

Drew Hudson, field director for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group which advocates for the use of renewable energy like wind power, said the poll may have been a response to opposition to nuclear power at the first public engagement hearing held in St. Johnsbury last week.

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