BUCHANAN – Hudson Riverkeeper Paul Gallay now predicts that the Indian Point nuclear power plants will not receive their license renewals.

Parent company Entergy is currently in the extensive process to gain 20 year renewals from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Gallay said he interprets recent developments to indicate those renewals will not be forthcoming.

“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was just up in New York last week and they said if there is no state water quality certificate, which it doesn’t look like there will be, Indian Point cannot be relicensed, so we have to be working on the next generation of energy sources,” he said. “You can close Indian Point down tomorrow and you would still have enough power left to power the region with a surplus through 2020.”

Gallay said that next generation of power sources could be through energy efficiency, new transmission capacity, refurbishing old power plants and through wind and solar power.