Posted on 07/27/2014 9:55:02 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
“Get ready for the New England power shortage,” reads the headline in The Spectator. “Governors are already meeting in emergency session.”
“In a hell-bent campaign to rid itself of any form of dirty, messy “non-renewable” energy, New England has been closing down coal and oil plants for the last decade,” the article warns. “In 2000, 18 percent of New England’s electricity came from coal and 22 percent from oil. Today it’s 3 percent coal and 1 percent oil. Meanwhile, natural gas — the fuel that everybody loves until you have to drill for it — has risen from 15 percent to a starkly vulnerable 52 percent, just behind California.
“There’s only one problem. New England doesn’t have the pipelines to bring in the gas.”
Read entire article by William Tucker: http://spectator.org/articles/60007/get-ready-new-england-power-shortage
Thanks to Bill Gannon for this link
“If these predictions are correct or nearly correct, looks like the Northeast will have brownouts or possibly blackouts this winter,” says Bill. “My prediction comes from the fact that the EPA has reduced power generation in the Northeast by forcing older coal plants to shut down.
“The natural gas plants only store gas on site. Why? Because environmentalists won’t let pipelines be built. How about power from Canada’s hydro power dams? Those same pesky environmentalists, fight tooth and nail to keep transmission lines from spoiling the scenery.
Environmentalists….they call themselves green because they’re too yellow to admit they’re really reds.”
To all those chortling about how New England is going to freeze this winter, think again. It's not going to happen.
Lots of 0bamabots.
If it didn’t happen last year with the horrendous winter, it sure isn’t going to happen this year.
PJM was within 200MW from brownouts/blackouts on January 7. If more plants shut down in the eastern US there will have power supply problems.
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=3150
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3174977/posts?page=32#32
2000MWs not 200...
“We have wood-fired heat and hot water, a propane-fired generator to run the water pump, “
I recall that this past winter there was a shortage of Propane in N.E. Did that affect you?
I heard that the price spiked similar to what happened in California/Enron a few years ago (10yr??)
What about the idea of turning on everything electrical we have to help drive the place into blackouts?
I have generators and solar for backups.
The trouble is the grid is fast approaching a state of no reserve capacity.
This is happening in all areas of the grid. Yet the average consumer is blissfully unaware of what is going on.
Their is a shale bed under Western MA and CT to the West of the Connecticut River but it is to shallow and probably immature from what I have read. But then again they don't know who Harold Vinegar is...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/should-israel-get-oil-out-of-vinegar-for-an-energy-revolution/
Most of them are liberals and they voted for this. As they huddle together in the dark and cold they should evaluate their choices and ponder what they should have differently.
No, you’re right ... I keep forgetting where I live in relation to the rest of the world
I wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the article when they include a whopper like that.
I hope your kids get cancer.
Unfortunately the folks freezing in their homes will come after the New Englander’s vote in November to keep the environmentalists in power and thus to ensure that they will freeze for the betterment of the environmentists goals.
And I doubt if the survivors will remember the freezing, unless it is two winters in a row come November 2016 elections.
'STOP Northern Pass'. (rolls eyes)
“Last week the governors of the six New England states met in an emergency session at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to discuss what to do about the pending crisis. Significantly, they asked the premiers of five of Canada’s provinces to attend. That makes sense because if the region is going to get electricity from anywhere it is probably going to be from north of the border.”
New Englanders — you can’t really mean that. We (Canada) have offered you access to billions of barrels of oil — but, you don’t want the pipeline that would deliver it. Why should we believe you’re serious about allowing electrical transmission lines to deliver you electricity? Freeze in the dark, liberal nitwits.
Nope, that option is off the table too: EPA's Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People.
Oh, just wait until they get to start rationing your energy use. Then you'll see how red they really are.
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