Excellent point - - entire NE grid dependent on a few power lines from Canada -- I worked for power company in CT for 15 yrs -- company taken over by green ideology -- more interested in selling you an electric lawnmower that "didn't pollute" (what a crock) and wrapping your water heater with insulation than building power plants.
The greens are also slowly killing us with inability to fight West Nile virus due to needless ban on DDT.
** More nukes, less kooks **
A great article posted on another thread, relevant here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/964398/posts Here is why it happened.
The Sierra Club and friends. (ABC, the New York Times, Al Gore, etc.)
They are also responsible for the brownouts in California last year. Why? Because their overweening influence in our governments from cities to states to the federal level, has brought power development to a virtual standstill. (Gray Davis hasn't added a watt to the grid during his entire time as governor. See A Public Comedy of Errors )
This doesn’t require an engineering degree, folks.
If all your power needs are supplied by a centralized grid which is not allowed to expand to meet increasing need, you are heading for a blackout. A five gallon fuel tank will not allow an eighteen wheeler to haul cargo from Portland to Pendleton. It’s as simple as that. If you add a million new citizens to your state, which is exactly what happened in California, they come with power needs. Lights, heating, cooling, television sets and toasters. If you don’t increase your power grid’s capacity, which is exactly what happened in California, your power grid will collapse under the added demand.
For decades, the greenies and their Democrat friends have strangled new power development. Because of the power plant construction regulations they have pushed through, the various government agencies involved have brought such attempts to, if not a standstill, a snail's pace. But, that’s not all they have accomplished. Loving centralization as socialists do, they have made it possible for one terrorist in the right spot with a packsack full of dynamite to bring down a power grid that runs from Ottawa to Ohio and east to the Atlantic, blacking out the lives of more than ¼ of North America’s population in a single, easy stroke.
As I write this, the East Coast blackout is going on. What would happen if some terrorists had a few airliners right now? Or if some terrorists on a skyscraper roof had a bag of chemicals or biological agents? You couldn’t even warn the residents of New York City.
Is there a solution to this power disaster, and pending danger? Of course.
Never vote for a Democrat again.
They (the GREENS) are damaging the very enviornment that they are trying to save. The thing that gripes me is that they are a minority special interest group that pollutedticians cater to for votes.