There is a simple solution. ND should build a nuclear power plant.
OUr idiot pols here in MN want to be more like Kalifornia:
California’s Energy Colonialism
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120977344875064131.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
... The blunt secret is this: California now imports lots of energy from neighboring states to make up for having too few power plants. Up to 20% of the state’s power comes from coal-burning plants in Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Montana. Another significant portion comes from large-scale hydropower in Oregon, Washington State and the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas. ...
“California practices a sort of energy colonialism,” says James Lucier... “They leave those states to deal with the resulting pollution.”
...California’s proud claim to have kept per-capita energy consumption flat while growing its economy is less impressive than it seems. The state has some of the highest energy prices in the country – nearly twice the national average – largely because of regulations and government mandates to use expensive renewable sources of power. As a result, heavy manufacturing and other energy-intensive industries have been fleeing the Golden State in droves....
And yet, despite a desperate need for more power, opposition to energy projects remains prevalent. ...
None of this has stopped leaders from setting wildly unrealistic goals for safeguarding the environment, from electric cars to wind-energy production.
The latest goal is to drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. ... Even the California Energy Commission hints that the targets might be unreachable. But they’ll certainly cost a lot to find out. Analysis from the Electric Power Research Institute pegs the Act’s cost to the California economy at anywhere from $100 billion to $511 billion.
Californians may feel good about their environmental consciousness. But someone needs to build power plants and oil refineries to fuel their economy. Someone needs to manufacture the cars they drive, the airplanes they fly, the chemicals and resins and paints and plastics that make their lives comfortable.
MN has a few, but our libtard pols passed a law that we could build no more...so we have not in many years.