I know there are a few gas lines that move gas around, but NIMBY is alive and well and will kill people if things go south.
I say let 'em freeze in the dark.
It’s an Atlas Shrugged world.
When I moved to Boston in the mid-80s, there was a sign adjacent to one of the elevated highways in town (and it did not appear to be a new sign, it was weathered).
It had a light like a traffic signal (or highway onramp) light. It had some panic message about how energy levels were being exceeded. I never saw that red light trip. It was constantly at “OK- but GO SLOW”.
Big Bruddah is watching you.
The more things change in the “miracle” that was Dukakis’ Massachusetts, the more they stay the same.
I worked in the tech sector up there (about 40 miles out of town) and we constantly experienced rolling blackouts in the summer.
Ever try to run a computer company without power?
Okay, everybody go home.
Dead Red Ted Kennedy wouldn’t permit a wind farm on Martha’s vineyard’s playground for the idle/idol rich.
How WELL I remember the rolling Brown-...Outs..courtesy OF Jerry Brown and company. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone given that most areas have reasonable decent sane people in them ..even if only as a miniscule minority.
Time to revise an old slogan:
“Let the dumb bastards freeze in the dark.”
Meanwhile the White House will remain a toasty 80-plus degrees all winter.
Does anyone else remember those stories from early in the Obama regime?
So let’s bring in a lot of illegal aliens as icing on the cake. How much more power will they use?
someone remind me who did New England vote for in the 2008 and 2012 elections?
“...but environmental groups insist the lines be buried underground.”
This will never happen, not at the power levels they’re talking about - can’t be done, not even close. The environmental groups, of course, know that - but it plays well with the masses. It allow them to say: “Yes, we have proposed a solution too, but Big Power doesn’t want to pay for it.”
Unfortunately Republicans have NO CLUE as to how to take these people on, no clue at all.
The power goes out every time a chipmunk f*rts in Red Hampshire...the number of power outages up here stagger the imagination. During all my time in Tennessee; we lost power ONCE, and that was for just a few hours after a near-miss by a tornado.
I have been beating the drum for some time to encourage CONSERVATIVES to get the hell out of Red England before it is too late.
Meanwhile, natural gas — the fuel that everybody loves until you have to drill for it — has risen from 15 percent to a starkly vulnerable 52 percent, just behind California.People and their politicians do this to themselves because they are stupid, mentally/emotionally unstable or are the enemies within.There’s only one problem. New England doesn’t have the pipelines to bring in the gas. Nor is anyone going to allowed to build it, either.
With our generation's progressives, I'm going with "all of the above".
We used to know this stuff. It will take some pain to get wise again...and we shall have it.
Who needs electricity when we have delta smelt and plovers?
a lot of people are installing wood pellet stoves up there, mainly because it is their only real option to keep from freezing to death.
Just one plant! Imagine if we had a couple dozen nuclear power plants from Maine down to Connecticut. We could easily have 100% of our power needs met with clean nuclear power.
The article is riddled with errors. There was a summit of New England governors a couple of weeks ago – not last week – but Gov. LePage of Maine skipped the photo op, because that is all it was.
Great Northern Paper in East Millinocket Maine did close down, not because of power costs, but because of lack of customers and bad management. They have not reopened and at this point no one rally expects to open on of the two plants purchased for $1 to save them (the second plant has been closed down and is being dismantled – who knew a 20 year old paper machine could be worth millions of dollars).
There are gas pipelines coming into to New England and Maine. We just need more. Most of our generating capacity in Maine is with gas. We have a very large oil fired plant on the coast that sits mostly idle but can produce lots of energy – albeit expensive energy – when needed.
I stopped reading after seeing this crap.
He, there are a few conservatives here, and indeed,
the 17.3 cents per kWh Boston households paid for electricity in February 2014 was 29.1 percent more than
the nationwide average of 13.4 cents per kWh. In each of the last five years, the price of electricity in Boston
has always exceeded that for the nation in the month of February, by 15 percent or more. (See chart 2.)
Prices paid by Boston area consumers for utility (piped) gas, commonly referred to as natural gas, were
$1.357 per therm, 25.9 percent more than the national average in February 2014 ($1.078 per therm). Since
February of 2010 the difference between local prices and those of the nation have been 25 percent or more.
(See chart 3.) http://www.bls.gov/ro1/cpibosap.pdf