Abenaki concerns about nuclear site’s future gaining attention

Rich Holschuh, public liaison for the Elnu Abenaki tribe, stands by the Connecticut River in Brattleboro. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDiggerVERNON – For Rich Holschuh, the Vermont Yankee property is rife with contradictions.
On one hand, it’s an idled, contaminated nuclear plant in need of the biggest environmental cleanup project Vermont has ever seen.
On the other, it’s part of the ancestral homeland of the Elnu Abenaki, the Native American tribe Holschuh is representing in the sta