Posted on 12/06/2006 7:25:46 AM PST by presidio9
THE debate about New York's energy future just got more interesting.
Entergy, the owner of the Indian Point Energy Center in upper Westchester County, recently announced its intent to seek renewal of its license to operate two of the state's six nuclear-power plants.
This provides an excellent chance for policymakers and business and political leaders to examine the best route for building New York's economy, improving our environment and our quality of life in the future.
New York faces a major challenge: Our demand for electric power rises every year. But, with some aging plants scheduled to go offline, our power-generating capacity will face a deficit in the next few years. That's the consensus view of independent experts, including the New York Independent System Operator, which manages the power grid throughout the state.
How important is reliable supply and distribution of electricity? Just ask small business owners and residents in northwest Queens left in the dark by last year's days-long blackout.
In other words, it's vital that New York expand its power supply - with clean, affordable and reliable electricity - in the immediate future. Yet some want to shrink the supply - as some anti-nuclear activists would have us do by denying license renewal for Indian Point.
The loss of Indian Point's power would be a devastating blow to New York, a detriment to our economic vitality and growth. And, because alternate power sources are less clean, it would harm air quality across the region, too.
So it's worth reviewing the benefits that Indian Point provides:
* Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts (MW) supply 30 percent of New York City and the surrounding region's electricity on a typical day, including much of the energy required by the mass-
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actually the NY Metro area needs to replace Indian Points reactors with new ones. These are really old brittle single wall units that need to be replaced with new state of the art ones. Like the Death Penalty in NY(there was for a while a death penalty signed into law by Pataki, but judicial activism took care of that one and even if they didnt no one would have ever been given it anyway).
You will never see a new reactor in NY....Soooioo we have to keep the remain reactors going at Indian Point, because the power is desperately needed.....it is all a catch 22 cause if you built fossil fuel generation stations the same idiots who want to ban the nuclear will be up in arms about the polution from the fossil fuel ones.
None of this matters. The Professional Anti-Nuclear Movement will ride this puppy into the ground. It is a fund-raising bonanza sent from Heaven. They cannot afford to ignore Indian Point.
The fact that it will destroy the New York Metropolitan Area's economy in Indian Point is closed simply does not matter to the Professional Anti-Nuclear Movement. They're just doing their jobs, and cannot be held responsible for the results.
Didn't the loser Mario shut down a completed nuclear power facility before it had generated a single microwatt?
A case in point is the Shoreham plant on New York's Long Island. Shoreham was a virtual twin to the Millstone 1 plant in Connecticut, both ordered in the mid-60's. Millstone, completed for $101 million, has been generating electricity for two decades. Shoreham, however, was singled out by anti-nuclear activists who, by filing endless protests, drove the cost over $5 billion and delayed its use for many years.
Shoreham finally won its operating license. But the plant has never produced a watt of power. Gov. Mario Cuomo, an opponent of a Shoreham startup, strong-armed New York's public-utilities commission into the following settlement: the power company could pass the cost of Shoreham along to its consumers only if it agreed not to operate the plant! Today, a perfectly good facility, capable of servicing hundreds of thousands of homes, sits rusting.
from this link.
well no, not sitting-rusting, the already dirty core had been moved to seattle washington and disposed of. at a cost of many millions more. Shoreham can not operate because the main part of it is GONE.
Yeah, I actually provided a similiar link a half hour ago, but a moderator has me on a "submitted for review" leash for "posting crap." In reality, the article that I posted (which was neither purient nor frivilous) was reposted to extended news by someone else. It remained there for the rest of the day (presumably under the watch of that same moderator) and received 100+ hits. This website has really gone downhill in recent years.
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