They won’t be satisfied until our bones are scattered in the desert;
Our state is tiptoeing around in our energy capacity upper limits due to the summer heat, approaching 70,000 megawatts (MW) of usage. Though virtually impossible to measure with precision, the upper limit is approximately 70,000 MW.
The coming disaster is the new EPA regulations will shut down coal-fired energy plants in Texas that provide 11,000MW to our grid.
Removing 11,000MW from our grid will put capacity way under we’ve needed this week to combat the severe summer heat.
Via
Related: There’s more than one way to skin an activist bureaucracy.
First link is error message. mike
I think it’s fixed now.
Oops, now the page is there. mike
well closing down all those plants will surely create a lot of jobs and help Obama fulfill his promise to have a laser focus on “jobs, jobs, jobs”
The comments thread at the Completely Biased Coverage (ceeb..)site could use a little help.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/08/05/ns-environment-canada-ecology.html
From the Related: link –
“Unions representing scientists […]”
What the motherloving hell.
My favorite line from the CBC article:
“Tony Clement, president of the Treasury Board, said Environment Canada’s decision to reduce staff is not part of the Conservative government’s initiative to slash billions of dollars from government programs.”
That, hopefully, means even more cuts to follow. Go get em, Tony.
That article decided me. I have just made out a
cheque for my next donation to the Conservative
Party of Canada and it will be in the mail by end of day.
My biggest donation came several months ago, while
reading a Blubb and Wail article about the wonders
of Michael Ignatieff (remember him?) when my
wife and I received a call from a Conservative
canvasser. Talk about perfect timing!!!
New Green jobs will be created when they replace that nassssty coal fired plant by mounting bicycles on the generators.
Just think of the weight loss potential!
Incidentally, I love the 80 jobs lost at Environut Canada. Those are the kind of unemployment figures I’m looking for.
Faster Tony! Faster!
I didn’t know elite scientists were members of dirty plebian unions. Whatever it takes to extract more benefits out of the taxpayers,I suppose.
One commenter at the link mentioned that all of Nova Scotia’s crown land had been put under the jurisdiction of the Environment department. NS’ers can say goodbye to a lot of industry if that’s the case.
We need a Protection Agency to protect people and our interests instead of the owls and spotted frogs etc. The EPA and its Canadian equivalent the NDP & LPC are bound and determined to make 3rd world countries out of Canada & the USA.
All unionized scientists should have their pay capped at 2/3rds of a sitting Mpp’s salary.
When the left starts screaming, and they will…
We’ll answer with their own battle cry…
Tax the rich!
Texas is responsible for almost half of the jobs created in the United States over the last decade… the EPA had to find some way to punish them.
How long until it gets bad enough that certain states start considering secession again?
Hmmm.
I understand that Austin, TX is by TX standards quite liberal.
I don’t suppose you could shut down that City, followed by selectively any federal building or institution, starting with anything EPA to save electricity?
Would that save you 11,000 MW? Pretty sure it would.
After all, that would be fair.
Does this mean that the perrenial mike and tv camera hog, head enviro-pansey David Phillips will lose his coveted position at prognostication of completely useless and incorrect predictions of the comming summers or winters? The intelliduncia that program media have run to this shill for globull warming for years, and he has yet to be right! Jettison the useless Tony, we will need the rations for working contributers to society, not Greenpeace suck-ups.
Electricity generators need to go Galt. Just to give the public a taste of what’s coming. Perhaps that will wake people up.
at least germany has the right idea…sort of…nuclear energy is still the only real way to go…properly constructed and sited nuclear energy that is…but this should drive gore to selfharm…we can always hope…
via: ihatethemedia.com
Angela Merkel’s government has made an announcement that’s sure to make environmental wackos happy – they’re closing down all their nuclear power plants. But Phase Two of the plan will drive the wackos even whackier.
German eco-wackos got their dream and their worst nightmare
Watts Up With That has the details:
Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy: in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their economy), the German government will direct climate fund cash to building coal and natural gas plants. You can’t make this stuff up.
Germany plans to dump nuclear power by 2022 but clearly needs to meet burgeoning electricity demand especially for a still powerful manufacturing economy dependent upon exports. Solar panels at their latitude and windmills are not going to suffice, so the solution is more coal. The environmental movement must be apoplectic with so many politically correct wires crossing at once.
bartinsky, one can hope.
The more that leave the better for the Nation.