About 40 Vermont college students gathered for a rally dubbed “Race to Replace Vermont Yankee” on the steps of the Statehouse on Friday.
All five Democratic candidates for governor were invited to speak about the Legislature’s initiatives to decommission Vermont Yankee and to talk about the role they envision renewable energy playing in Vermont’s power grid.
Afterward the rally, students rode their bikes 40 miles to Burlington for a gathering to celebrate Vermont’s “clean energy future.”
The event, which was organized by Middlebury College students, is the beginning of a campaign to register younger voters through the summer and to pressure candidates to support wind, solar and biomass energy.
Editor’s note: Apologies to Matt Dunne — vtdigger.org arrived late to the rally and only caught a small segment of his speech.
