5/12/23 - Fox News (Laura Ingraham) - California "environmental justice" mandate model expanding across the country [4:45 min] - Daniel Turner (Power the Future) - Rolling blackouts coming!

6/24/21 - Real Clear Energy - Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’ - Robert Bryce - The state’s surging energy costs demonstrate the regressive nature of decarbonization policies and how renewable-energy mandates drive up the price of power. California’s electricity prices are “absolutely exploding,” says Mark Nelson...  the blackouts and high electricity prices that are plaguing California provide a neon-lit warning sign about the electric reliability and energy affordability crises that loom if policymakers attempt to decarbonize our economy too quickly.

5/5/22 - Newsweek - California Is Impoverishing Its Low-Income Residents With Electricity Prices - Robert Bryce - The ongoing price hikes are terrible news for low- and middle-income consumers in California, which has the highest poverty rate in the country.... There's a lesson here for the rest of the United States, not just about how not to run an electric grid, but about who bears the cost of some of the most extreme measures to combat climate change.

Promoters of renewable energy never tire of claiming that weather-dependent renewables are cheaper than conventional forms of producing electricity. But the ongoing price increases prove those claims are hogwash. The hard truth is that California's soaring electricity prices show what happens when decarbonization efforts are pushed too far too fast.

California policymakers need a big dose of energy realism. It's time for them to admit the obvious: Expensive energy is the enemy of the poor.

NEW ENGLAND

2/15/22 - Energy in Depth - New England’s Natural Gas Infrastructure Blockade Leads to Emissions Spike - Nicole Jacobs - New England is in a particularly difficult spot because of lack of investment in natural gas infrastructure thanks to efforts to block this development:  “New England’s natural gas pipeline capacity is also limited, making it difficult to ramp up deliveries into the region when needed. A series of proposals to expand that capacity to bring in more supply have been rejected in recent years due to public opposition to new pipeline infrastructure.”

2/18/22 - Real Clear Energy - Northeast Pipeline Blockade Delivers Trifecta of Bad Outcomes: Dependence on Fuel Oil, Higher Prices, and More Foreign Energy Imports - Dan Byers - Spoiler alert: there is no question that the Northeastern U.S. pays more for energy than the rest of the country (and has for years), but the driving factor isn’t surging exports to other countries. Rather, it is opposition to pipeline infrastructure that has left the region unable to access sufficient supplies of affordable energy.  Simply put, natural gas pipelines that could bring abundant gas supplies from Appalachia’s Marcellus shale region have been blocked at every turn over many years.

MAINE

Transmission Line attempting to bring low cost Quebec hydro power to Massachusetts opposed by greens (and even Tucker Carlson who has a Maine camp on a lake near it!).

5/4/21 - Gizmodo - The Weird, Unholy Alliance of Tucker Carlson and Environmentalists - Molly Taft

4/20/23 - Fox News/AP - Maine jury rules in favor of $1B plan connecting US grid to Canadian hydropower

NEW YORK

New York State is a huge natural gas consumer but it bans shale gas production.

4/24/20 - IER - New York Needs Natural Gas But Bans Hydraulic Fracturing Technology - New York produces less than 1 percent of the natural gas it consumes and imports the rest from outside its borders. Natural gas consumption in New York is large, being used for heating, electricity generation, and many industrial uses. Natural gas produced 40 percent of the state’s electricity last year and is expected to produce 50 percent of its electricity next year as a result of New York’s shuttering of the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

8/17/22 - Spectrum News - Zeldin seeks reversal of New York's ban on natural gas drilling - Nick Reisman - New York banned fracking after a long campaign by environmental groups, which have also opposed pipeline construction and other forms of natural gas extraction... "We took on the fossil fuel industry then and we won,"