20,000 new NYC homes/businesses NEED natural gas before winter but pipeline blockades won’t allow it…climate activism/energy ignorance roll the dice with thousands of lives at stake

Should a cold snap emerge that creates the same situation as happened in Rhode Island earlier this year, we could quite easily see a catastrophe of such monumental significance that it might actually break through the energy-ignorance wall of climate activists. There appears to be no other way to get them to learn other than to have a great number of people die. Read on…

40 Replies to “20,000 new NYC homes/businesses NEED natural gas before winter but pipeline blockades won’t allow it…climate activism/energy ignorance roll the dice with thousands of lives at stake”

  1. Waay overtorqued.

    Industrial and commercial customers would be cut off before any home was. This happens sometimes in places where supply is good – really cold weather sometimes just drives the load that high.

    1. In Wolkenkuckucksheim, maybe.

      In the real world the guy in the average Joe in NYC doesn’t have either the baksheesh to put in the right pockets or political pull to keep the juice flowing to his tiny overpriced warren.

      1. Did anyone die? It was a150 homes.

        I managed a greenhouse in southern Ontario in the mid 80s – 4 acres under glass – and lots of other operations nearby – probably 100 million in crop asset value within 15 miles. We all had oil-fired backup as the NG supplier had the right to cut us off is supply ran short – Read: really cold winter nights – especially windy ones. We got cut off a couple nights when I was there. No big deal.

        I repeat – the author greatly exaggerates the risk and severely damaged his case by doing so.

        1. It is the exact same current. People want to stop ALL natural gas usage not just new homes. How many apartment buildings in NY have boilers run on gas? And it also includes electricity generated by natural gas. Look no further than California.

  2. Good. Until there are bodies, no one is going to pay attention.

    For quicker action, get the heat and lights shut down at the private school Hillary’s grandchildren go to. Maybe get some frostbite on Steyer’s family.

    If the blockade was lifted, if I was an evil oil company, I would refuse to build the pipeline and cut the supply to everyone who was already hooked up.

    No fracking means no fossil fuels for you. New York state needs to run out of coal, diesel, gasoline, propane, NG, all at the same time.

    1. Nat Gas, oil, as far as I know, some electric, some had fireplaces, few had Franklin wood stoves and unicorn fxxts.

      1. From my experience (actually my mother’s) many homes in Montreal have electric furnaces backed up by oil when the temperature really drops. Electricity is relatively cheap in Quebec due to abundant hydro-electric projects.

        1. The Politicians brag that they’re green due to hydro electricity. In the meantime one sees oil delivery trucks everywhere in the city.

    2. A combination of oil, Ng and electricity.

      Cheap hydro is competitive (and increases Quebec equalization payments BTW) but older homes with forced air that use NG or in areas where there is no gas line oil still is used.

  3. It will be a frigid winter. Grand solar minimum.

    There needs to be real cruel nasty pain.

    Bring it.

  4. Just outlaw freezing.

    Temperatures are artifacts of white RACIST and patriarchal oppression. And sexist.
    Stop temperature inequality now!
    /S

  5. What’s a few lives if we can save Mommy Gaia, right?

    Funny, but I remember when one of the worst mayors Edmonton had in the last 50 years, progressive Jan Reimer, said nearly 30 years ago that people were more important than potholes. (That’s one reason why Edmonton’s streets are in such dreadful shape.)

    I guess modern-day progressives would like to neglect both in order to be “green”.

  6. People who want to kill you are everywhere. They are a strange lot. They even our own hate prosperity and comfort. They somehow think that they can get away with making others lives miserable without ever understanding that when blowback comes they will suffer worse than those they now try to subjugate.

    1. Yes OWG. Experience, they say, is the greatest teacher.
      Maybe a whole section of the population needs to experience some consequences of their voting patterns.
      A severe lack of heat tends to focus one’s attention on the priorities in life.
      Virtue-signalling appears to take a back seat, when the shivering begins.

      1. It won’t work. They never, ever, learn from their mistakes.

        Everything is the fault of white men, conservatives and the Jews. Nothing bad that ever happens to them is ever their fault. Ever.

        They’ll just flee, if they can, to the places where they drove all the people who work for a living, believe in God, have the wits to survive in the real world and know when they’re well off.

        “Zimbabwe’s” blacks drove out their whites. When everything started to fall apart, the blacks started leaving too, mostly for South Africa. Even the black South Africans hate them.

        1. True, those who are responsible for building something are at “fault” because it wouldn’t exist without the builders. The first world problem of “I think it could be better” is seldom thought of from the viewpoint of “my life would be much worst or harder without it”.

          Don’t mistake skin colour for culture, though. I like to think I have far more in common with Thomas Sowell than Charles Manson.

      2. Maybe a whole section of the population needs to experience some consequences of their voting patterns.

        After the Trudeau Selfie Corrupt Federal Government in killing anything good in Canada.

        On Oct 21 2019 we will find out the answer.

        I firmly believe that the LibCons get the wrath of constituents.

  7. So what’s not to like? Big Craphole residents get to enjoy what they elected. Any of them that die won’t be around next year to push their One World Government “utopia”. I wonder if the deep freeze will affect the UN headquarters???

    And never forget that most of those who die will be in a warmer climate for eternity!

  8. Feel sorry for no one.
    This is just the beginning.
    Old White Guy is, once again, right. The Elites and their minions want you dead.
    Wait till they start quotas/rationing. Wait till the courts start shutting down existing pipelines.
    What’s your Plan B?

  9. Can’t wait till the January gas and oil supplies are shut off to Trawna and Vancouver.

    1. The GOAL..?
      Damned straight it is. I have felt that way for a number of years – Ever since watching a vid from Butts (during his WWF days), where he states quite plainly <1 Billion souls on the planet is “sustainable”.

      Its Not just Climate Change, it’s massive in-migration of soley Middle Eastern – Sub Saharan LOW LIFE + the ongoing mass insanity known as Social Justice. Your 3 planks to obliterate Western Industry, Society and ALL of its inhabitants.

      <1 Billion souls on the planet.
      They ABSOLUTELY mean us DEAD.
      As orignially espoused by Maurice Strong….a fkn Canadian no less.

  10. What’s the matter with you people?

    Don’t you realize that those those “inferiors” are ruining the planet?

    We have to get rid of them somehow, no?

    Thomas R. Malthus would be proud.

  11. Good article. Unfortunately I do not see Canadians waking up any time soon. My only quibble is with the suggestion that we might see a few degrees warming in 40 years — I think it is more like 1 or 1.5 degrees in 70 years, that is if it were really warming at all.

    1. You will see a 1.5 degree overall drop by 2032. It will get colder not warmer. Climate does change but we don’t get to dictate the change. Observation all we really have and the 1.5 degree drop is based on observations made decades ago.

  12. The problem is that the environmentalists and politicians are attacking from many different angles. The combined effect is weakening energy production and delivery at several points. Too many weak points risks in one part failing and causing a cascade effect.

    Electricity- wind and solar programs weaken the grid and are expensive for consumers.

    Nat gas and fuel – pipeline and port obstruction results in inadequate supply. New taxes and regulations increases the cost. See above article and TMX and the attempted closure of Enbridge Line 5.

    Add in some cold weather or war or other disruption and the weakened system fails but also takes other down with it. Example of cascade effect: not enough natgas for heat so an increase in emergency electric heating causing strain on an intermittent wind and solar power weakened electricity grid which results natgas failure plus electricity grid failure during a cold snap, potentially having a domino effect knocking out neighboring grids throughout Canada and the US. It’s happened before so utilities have made improvements but no one knows for if those improvements are enough.

    1. At some point it might be necessary for energy companies and competent politicians to give the public a small taste of the real world affects of energy disruption. A few hours or a one day strike that reminds everyone how dependent our society is on electricity, gasoline and natural gas. Better a small controlled example than a large, chaotic, catastrophic one. A trial separation of a sort. You think you can live without carbon based energy so here’s what that would really be like – try it for a few hours or a day or so.

      1. Bring it on. Do it January 1 2020. It will be sobering for many. I’ll fire up my genny and stoke the wood stove and clean my weapons.

  13. Future headline: “EXTREME weather, Polar Vortex, kills hundreds in unusually Frigid upstate New York”

  14. After reading this and the financial post article about Canada’s precarious energy situation, I made a very quick look into refining capacity by province. It looks like both Alberta and Saskatchewan could produce and refine enough electricity (coal and natgas fired), gasoline and natgas (for homes) from their domestic supplies to be self sufficient. The rest of Canada is dependent on foreign and PrairieWest supplies/delivery of natgas and gasoline. What happens if Alberta and Saskatchewan, after being treated like crap by the rest of Canada, decides to look out for only their own well being in the event of a disruption in foreign supply/delivery? After TMX and Energy East, Trudeau’s vendetta (plural), equalization exploitation and general ill will towards us – why should PrairieWest have any loyalty to the rest of Canada? It has become clear that the rest of Canada are neither friends nor allies to Alberta and Saskatchewan.

  15. how many of the possible affected are currently on the pep rally bandwagon, cheering on the fanatics?
    at least some I suspect.

    the left is suicidal.
    what is it called when a suicidal includes non-combatants in the death toll?

  16. Those folks can always go to big billy D’s house, burn it down and toast marshmallows while keeping warm

  17. “Sour-Face Warren says no more carbon fuel as of 2035. Fifteen years away isn’t torque, its a deadly promise.”
    rush Limbaugh say that the democrats are experts at creating a problem that is unsolvable and the promising to fix it.

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