Environmental activists ignore energy realities

• Published in: New Hampshire Business Review Vol. 40; no. 9; p. 18
• Main Author: Sullivan, Tom
• Format: Journal Article Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: Concord Business Publications, Inc 27.04.2018; Business Publications Inc
• Subjects: Activists; Costs; Electric power; Electric rates; Electricity; Electricity distribution; Energy; Environmental activists; Environmental policy; Forecasts and trends; Greenhouse gases; Natural gas; Prices and rates; Renewable energy; Renewable resources; Supply and demand; New Hampshire; United States > US; Massachusetts
• ISSN: 0164-8152

ENERGY EFFORTS The willingness of environmental activists and their elected and appointed allies to ignore the drumbeat of bad news about the security and costs of the region's energy supplies is a stunning abdication of responsibility for sound public policies to protect both the environment and the economy.[...]Over just 13 days in late December and early January, New England nearly ran out of power, spent nearly $1 billion in additional cost to turn on shuttered oil plants for power (adding one million tons of the greenhouse gases it is trying to avoid into the atmosphere), and was forced to import liquefied natural gas from a sanctioned Russian company. * In mid-January, ISO-New England, responsible for the region's electric power reliability, warned that by the winter of 2024-25 the region could face "rolling blackouts."Policymakers and influencers should focus more on the real causes of greenhouse gases and accept the glaring fact that unless New Hampshire finds a path forward to expand natural gas and electric transmission capacity, they are jeopardizing the region's economic vitality. ШИВВ