This issue doesn’t have anything to do with NYRI in and of itself, but it’s something different: The Delaware County Electric Cooperative, which has 5,000 members in some of the counties that happen to affected by the proposed NYRI line, has filed an application with FERC to build new hydroelectric turbines at four Catskills […]

A further thought on this discussion, before leaving town for a few days… on the question of what a greener, less war-framed and more honest future could be like:
When I was a kid, some of us would sometimes amuse ourselves on the playground by shutting our eyes and trying to walk straight. As for […]

Follow-ups on the recently blogged:
This piece in Artvoice casts a critical eye on Robert Wilmers’ appointment as ESDC head, focusing on possible conflicts of interest involving M&T Bank, among other things. (And here’s another, similarly critical piece from Artvoice.)
Predictably, the trucking industry doesn’t like the new plan to get their trash trucks […]

Poor William James Howard Kunstler. The way things are going, he’ll soon be out of business as America’s sole fiery Jeremiah of the peak oil apocalypse. This piece (hat tip to Sean) is a good read: Wake Up, America. We’re Driving Toward Disaster.
Kunstler stresses a need for honesty. Here are […]

Cookin’ in the ‘Cuse is celebrating a birthday. Happy bloggiversary to Syracuse’s leading food blog! Jennifer also posts about her busy schedule and quotes E.B. White:
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the […]

Has it really been two years since I first posted on this issue? Yes indeed, New York Regional Interconnect erupted as an issue in May 2006 and the fun still hasn’t stopped. So who’s up, who’s down now?
NYRI has been handed a setback with a rejection of their application for federal incentives. […]

Power line mania continues. New York needs an energy policy for the people.

The federal government hands anti-NYRI groups more silverware for their cannon.

Manifest Destiny, right here in River City.

Can’t we just hibernate our way to energy conservation?