Get ready for blackouts after Cuomo foolishly killed the Indian Point plant
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Thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s anti-nuclear vendetta, Unit Three of the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, NY, will permanently shut down this Friday, one year after its sister unit was forced to close.
The premature shutdown of the 2,069-megawatt nuclear plant perfectly encapsulates the governor’s green-energy madness. He has forced the closure of the highly reliable, low-cost and emissions-free source of 10 percent of the Empire State’s electricity — and 25 percent of Gotham’s power. In its place, he will — eventually — offer high-cost and intermittent offshore-wind power, as well as solar.
...In reality, the final shutdown of Indian Point is yet another milestone in the governor’s ongoing assault on the state’s energy infrastructure. He has refused to allow new gas pipelines to be built that would allow residents to enjoy the benefits of low-cost natural gas.
Yet that new pipeline capacity will be sorely needed now: to deliver additional natural-gas supplies to the power plants needed to replace the roughly 16 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity that Indian Point generated every year.
he’s also banned fracking....wouldn’t want the poor farmers and little people in the small upstate towns to get a little money .