Cuomo’s green-power dreams are slamming upstate yet again
By Post Editorial Board | New York Post | October 27, 2019 | nypost.com
By Post Editorial Board | New York Post | October 27, 2019 | nypost.com
Gov. Andrew Cuomo just can’t seem to resist slamming Upstate simply to pander to the greens. The latest pain: His drive to build vast “wind farms” off Long Island will zing upstaters’ electric bills to the tune of more than $1 billion – and that’s just for the first round of subsidies.
Credit the Empire Center’s Ken Girardin for uncovering this injustice in new filings by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which shows that subsidies for the windmill operators could hit $2.2 billion – — about double today’s wholesale electric prices for the city and Long Island.
The cost would be snuck into consumers’ electric bills all across New York – with utilities legally barred from telling the public what’s going on. And that’s just for about a fifth of the 9,000 megawatts of wind power mandated by the “Climate Leadership” law Cuomo got passed this year.
Mind you, the gov’s making even green power more expensive than it needs to be, by requiring union wages and work rules on these wind projects and by blocking better alternative sources, like Canadian hydropower, from qualifying for state subsidies.
Meanwhile, much of the state suffers needlessly because of Cuomo’s junk-science ban on fracking, which robs depressed rural areas of good jobs and the wealth that selling drilling rights would bring.
This gov’s “climate leadership” is pushing much of the state to ruin.
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2019/10/27/cuomos-green-power-dreams-are-slamming-upstate-yet-again/