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Posted on 09/22/2026 4:49:28 AM PDT by Libloather
Energy groups are pushing Gov. Kathy Hochul to restart Indian Point’s dormant nuclear reactors as part of a new ad blitz for “Climate Week.”
The Democratic governor’s face will appear on a billboard on a truck alongside the message “open up Indian Point, or the heat goes out and the light goes out.”
Westchester County’s Indian Point was closed in 2021 under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo after years of pressure from anti-nuke activists and politicians who worried that its location just 40 miles out of Midtown would mean disaster in the case of a meltdown.
But Hochul is leading an initiative to try boost New York’s low energy generation capacity by building new nuclear reactors as residents get zapped by ever-surging utility bills.
“If Governor Hochul was sincere about jump-starting nuclear power to cut electricity prices, she would be pressing the Trump administration to expedite the recommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, where the extensive infrastructure needed is already in place,” said Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.
“But that is not what’s happening,” he added. “She is only sincere about her insincerity.”
Hochul has called Cuomo’s move to close the Buchanan power plant a “mistake” — though she hasn’t entertained the possibility of reopening the facility.
Indian Point produced roughly two gigawatts of energy before it was shuttered, which Hochul admits drove up demand on dirtier fossil fuel-burning power plants.
“We lost 25% of New York City’s power when Indian Point shut down. That’s something that was unforeseen,” Hochul, who served as lieutenant governor at the time of Indian Point’s closure, said on NY1’s “Inside City Hall” last week. “Nobody had a plan B. What are you supposed to do for power the next day?”
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I want to see the lights go out on Broadway.
“We lost 25% of New York City’s power when Indian Point shut down. That’s something that was unforeseen,”
Yeah, it was SO HARD to foresee that! To commie idiots, Cause and Effect just doesn’t exist. They are incapable of thinking ahead. Wishing a “green” economy into being is Exhibit #1.
dirtier fossil fuel-burning power plants.........
THAT IS BULLSHIITE...............
They think WV will generate the shortfall for them with all the NG in its northern deposits and power will magically get transmitted to them without any new lines that everyone along the way would have to pay for.
Think about this.
Upstate NY has two utility providers.
Both are foreign owned.
Albany answers to Europe.
Europe?
Eurabia...............
Spain in this case.
And since it’s one of the PIIGS, Spain answers to Brussels.
ConEd is publicly traded.
Vanguard is its largest institutional investor.
Figgers.
Why foreign-owned public utility companies aren’t a national security issue is beyond me.
Especially since Upstate’s aren’t the only ones.
That has to be one of the dumbest things a politicial ever said. They shut down a power plant and didn't know who used the electricity? Or maybe they thought it was only going to cut 23% of NYC power and that was going to be fine?
The way she said it sounds like "Let's just shut it off and see what happens."
American elections are proof Americans can’t define a woman. If they could, they wouldn’t elect so damn many of them.
When a fan asks him, “How do you write women so well?”, Melvin rudely replies, “I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability”.
This is generally the case with almost all Liberals too.
I did it because it FEELS right or good. Not because I considered the consequences of my actions.
They shut down a power plant with nothing to replace it with. Prices will go up with lack of availability and force people to cut back their usage.
Some people think this is the world conspiracy now. Drive up fuel prices to force people to conserve. Stop driving big pick up trucks and other vehicles to lower fuel demand.
one of the dumbest things a politician ever said
And these are the "geniuses" elected to lead us.
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