new york climate act, Tag

This situation is a major blow to the offshore wind industry and to New York's renewable energy aspirations. It also highlights the challenges faced by large-scale renewable energy projects in the United States, including...

...to date, relative to this project there exists no environmental impact statement, no feasibility study, no prototype, and no demonstration project to show how this can be done, let alone any detailed cost analysis to show...

 At some point, New York State is going to have to confront the fact that the naïve implementation plan based on rhetoric and not facts must be changed.  Hopefully, the confrontation will occur before there is a catastrophic...

The entire Climate Act legislation and narrative is characterized by black and white cartoon descriptions. 

New Yorkers will in short order face higher fuel costs, higher property taxes, higher compliance costs and higher electricity rates, interspersed with news about businesses either leaving or cancelling investments because...

The development of Micron within the Climate Act framework will be a good test of pragmatic environmentalism. 

it is completely clear that the people running New York’s supposed energy transition do not have the slightest hint of competence.

The ultimate fall back is to simply keep the existing cars running as long a possible.

In other words, I guess, hey sucker, use your electric car battery to power the house when the grid goes down.

It appears that the owners of these buildings are just now figuring out that the standards that have been set cannot be met, at least not in any remotely reasonable way.

In the political climate of Albany it is not clear how to get policy makers to consider the risks of ignoring the issues raised.

Needless to say, I strongly endorse the statements of the three members who voted against the Scoping Plan. 

This report highlights multiple feasibility concerns that must be addressed to have any hope of this working.  I believe that it shows that implementation on the schedule proposed will prove impossible. 

I’m not fooling myself into thinking that this will have any immediate impact. I will say that among all the other speakers, not a one addressed or attempted to refute any of my points.

The Draft Scoping Plan was written to prove the desired conclusion that the benefits were greater than the costs.  In order to make that case both benefits and cost estimates have been perverted.