ENERGY SAVVY

While attending local town board meetings in Columbia County, we hear over, and over, and over, ad nauseeum about Climate Smart Committees, grant monies received for being smart, and striving to move up the recognition ladder. Really? Policies being promoted, pursued, and imposed will raise the cost of electricity and cripple production of electricity. In addition to being nonsensical and arbitrary, the goals support costly, unreliable, and destructive means of production. Solar works when the sun shines. Tell that to Syracuse where clouds predominate.Windmills an eyesore at the height of once pristine mountains.They are killing birds and fowl. They wear down and have to be replaced. Each of these smart alternatives are not smart. They are a fad driven by fanatical obedience to dogma. Climate Smart ignores and discourages our best sources of energy, nuclear and natural gas. In addition to others encouraging the reopening or keeping open the plant on the Hudson that generates 25% of our electricity. Perhaps reverse field and open the never opened Shoreham nuclear plant. There is no reason to prohibit fracking in the southern tier. Not only would it provide large amounts of electricity, it would create a thriving and growing economy in the Southern Tier, a region near and dear to so many. Stop the insanity. Stop the exodus.