Posted on 10/31/2019 12:13:43 PM PDT by matt04
When the plan to build a natural gas power plant in Killingly first came up in 2016, the objections from folks in this northeast corner town of about 17,000 were pretty basic – they already had one, didn’t want another about a mile away, and didn’t want its emissions.
“Not another power plant,” was the rallying cry. Three years later, this remains the name of the local opposition group — or NAPP for short.
But since then, the furor over the proposed Killingly Energy Center (KEC) has expanded into a statewide environmental cause célèbre and is now something of a poster child for how not to tackle climate change. Those critical of the plan point out that a fossil fuel-run power plant that still emits greenhouse gases, even if it produces fewer of them than oil or coal plants, will not allow the state to meet a 2040 target of 100% zero carbon for the elector sector suggested by Gov. Ned Lamont last month.
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Rep. Raghib Allie-Brennan, D-Bethel, co-vice chair of the Energy and Technology Committee and leader of the legislative Clean Energy Caucus, said he’s spoken with the governor’s office about next steps. He also signed a letter from more than two-dozen legislators urging Lamont to oppose the Killingly plant.
“We don’t want a fossil fuel future for Connecticut,” he said. “The governor is committed to clean energy. We want to make sure we stay on that path. We don’t need the power and even if we did, we wouldn’t do this.”
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What magical unicorn will generate power at night or on days with little wind? At least they wont have to worry about who will turn out the lights.
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Nancy Pelosi thinks Natural Gas isn’t a Fossil Fuel.
“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,”
So CT follows CA into the new stone age. Congratulations mindless Democrat Fascist Party voters. Enjoy your future living in the freezing dark.
Connecticut trying to beat California to the bottom.
They can borrow surplus power from California. ;)
Who is John Galt?
“... Natural gas is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels ...”
She probably also thinks that people should get their meat at a grocery store where it’s manufactured instead of from an animal.
How soon before all these Northeast loons feel the need for an armed seizure of Quebec Hydro?
The northeast will be a bigger mess than California in a few years. They are getting rid of their nuke plant, coal and gas, and relying on solar and wind, which doesn’t work in a “polar vortex” type storm that will last for over a week.
The reading and submission of a detailed book report of “Atlas Shrugged” should be a requirement for graduation from both High School and College.
Who is John Galt?
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John Galt is the hero of the ...
Oh, wait. You must know the answer or you wouldn’t have asked the question.
Silly me.
No way, the idiots here in NH oppose the “Northern Pass” because we did not need it here and it would have messed up their view up north.
The Northern Pass was a proposed additional right of way with high tension power lines through north NH. It would have brought electrical power from Quebec Hydro down through NH to Mass/RI & CT.
Eversource even proposed to bury the lines through Plymouth, NH so that it would not effect their view. There was only about 40 miles of new ROW. The rest would have gone over existing ROWs.
After lobbing the state for multiple years Eversource(the utility) gave up.
NIMBY
“At least they wont have to worry about who will turn out the lights. “
nor will they have to worry about having their power cut off whenever it’s windy ...
Texas and other nat gas producers ought to help these anti-fossil fuel states achieve their 0% goal by shutting down our pipelines now. We have foreign customers for our fuel who pay a higher price for it than the old contracts with our northeastern states.
Whenever someone says “climate change” you know you are dealing with someone who is dangerously stupid.
Not all natural gas is a fossil fuel. Without even getting into the question of possible abiogenic origins; there is “renewable natural gas”, made from decomposing organic waste.
Abiogenic such as crustal subduction to a sufficient depth such that high temperature thermal decomposition of water bearing carbonate rock occurs?
The reading and submission of a detailed book report of... most any book, and make it public on the WWW for all to see.
Sounds great, but such a plan might have limited my meteoric rise from Sub-grunt to full Grunt?
Some other Freepers are better able to answer that — IIRC, I first heard about it here, from some proponents of the theory. I do know a bit about “renewable natural gas”, from anarobic digestion of organic waste. Our local landfill collects it (pipes are buried into the waste), and uses it to generate about 75 mW/hr of electricity.
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