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NYRI
Apr 3, 2009 15:43:52 GMT -5
Post by countrygal on Apr 3, 2009 15:43:52 GMT -5
According to the OD, the project is dead. Thank goodness.
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NYRI
Apr 3, 2009 18:40:50 GMT -5
Post by dgriffin on Apr 3, 2009 18:40:50 GMT -5
If my memory serves me well, they've been dead before. Quoting Mark Twain, "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Not to say we shouldn't celebrate their demise, but a watchful eye on the corpse is not a bad idea.
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NYRI
Apr 3, 2009 22:31:53 GMT -5
Post by Disgusted-Daily on Apr 3, 2009 22:31:53 GMT -5
This is super great news and we can only hope it is not brought back to life and smuggled in through a unknown back door.
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NYRI
Apr 3, 2009 23:06:56 GMT -5
Post by frankcor on Apr 3, 2009 23:06:56 GMT -5
Perhaps we should drive a wooden stake through the heart of NYRI to be certain it doesn't return from the dead?
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NYRI
Apr 3, 2009 23:17:40 GMT -5
Post by Disgusted-Daily on Apr 3, 2009 23:17:40 GMT -5
No guarantees with a wooden stake, maybe some explosives would be better odds of a no return.
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NYRI
Apr 4, 2009 5:20:29 GMT -5
Post by frankcor on Apr 4, 2009 5:20:29 GMT -5
todd, there ARE some problems that cannot be solved with explosives.
I just can't think of many.
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NYRI
Apr 5, 2009 6:10:20 GMT -5
Post by strikeslip on Apr 5, 2009 6:10:20 GMT -5
This is just a reprieve. It was not all the fighting (and 100s of 1000s if not millions of taxpayer dollars spent on legal fees) that made this project "go away" -- It was a mere change in a rule by the NY system operator that required 80% of all utilities on the receiving end (ie Downstate) to back this project ... a rule which, unfortunately for NYRI, held up in front of the Feds. We might not be so lucky next time.
The "Smart Grid" will be shoved down our throats by Washington. Downstaters, who continue to grow in numbers, continue to clamor for shutting down Indian Point Nuke and a number of coal fired power plants and won't allow anything to take their place. "Everyone" is pushing "green" power, which will be windmills Upstate to supply Downstate needs. The New York Power Authority at its meeting in Utica in december (I was there) is talking about a line under the Hudson to NYC -- which will invisibly suck the power out of Upstate.
NYRI won't go away -- it will just morph into something else.
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NYRI
Apr 5, 2009 6:54:35 GMT -5
Post by dgriffin on Apr 5, 2009 6:54:35 GMT -5
Spot on, Strikeslip. The need for more power in urban centers (anywhere, actually) will not diminish, so neither will solutions, workable or inane. (Can you imagine the cost of an underwater power cable? Who would want to pay for it when overhead is so much cheaper? I can hear the clamor from downstate now: "Tell the cows along the route up there to F off.")
And the Feds aren't going to let metro areas with large numbers of people be endangered by either frequent power outages or nuclear accidents. The US is going nuclear, make no mistake. Upstate NY will be in the center of the Northeast part of it. It'll be like living in the center of a nuclear fuel dump. Our only hope is that Canadian politicians will be more greedy than ours.
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