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Speaker 1 (00:01):
At six o six. I think about garre ceed talk station.
I hope you're having a happy Tuesday. Coming up inside
scoop with bright Bart News every Tuesday, nay o five.
Today Kurtz and Dalka, the bright Bart London Debut editor.
What in the hell is going on with the French
election parallels to what happened with Trump? That the subject
matter with Kurt followed by the Daniel Davis deep dive
the latest on the Russia Ukraine. Trump apparently not real
(00:23):
happy with Vladimir and Putin right now an Zelensky, I
guess pulling out of that mineral deal that I thought
was kind of negotiated, sort of kind of Plus, you
see surgeons are using three D printed organs in the
operating room. Just that brief statement about the subject matter, right,
we're talking about you see researcher doctor Prasha Robbie, he'll
(00:44):
be a guest on at eight forty five to explain
that to us. And I've never done this before, but
I got a great reaction to an op ed piece
out of Reason the other day. Mark Osterich, who was
described as a founding partner of a nonprofit firm Crane
and Gray, and the editor of a daily energy newsletter
called Gridbrief. But he did such a beautiful job explaining
(01:05):
the bat crap insanity of United States energy policy that
I just wanted to bring it back to everybody's attention
because I didn't get to it till the very end
of the program, and I only read a part of it,
but I got so many requests for the link to
the article. I've just asked Jostreker to put a link
to it on my blog page or podcast blog page
(01:26):
at fifty five caresee dot com. Because when you contemplate
his words and they make perfect sense, you realize what
a lie and a bill of goods we've been sold
on this whole green crap. Anyway, bear with me and
enjoy if you haven't heard it before. We're not short
(01:48):
on power, we're just too sanctimonious to generate. At the
caption of the article, I recall Ontario Premier Doug Ford
he threatened at twenty five percent retally on American energy exports,
and I know he pulled that off the table, but
that's the predicate for this wonderfully written analysis. And he
(02:13):
writes the headline framed as another Trump tariff story Ontario
premiere Doug Ford threatening a twenty five percent retaliation in
American energy exports. But the real story of the Northeastern
energy crisis is more than a cross border drama and
goes back well before the tariffs and trumpeting. Ford's threat
is the latest lash and a decade's long ritual of
(02:35):
energy self flagellation. US regulators and lawmakers have been kneecapping
American energy electricity production with regulation after regulations, smothering new
projects in the name of preservation wetlands of the Northeastern
bullrush sedge, often before they even break ground. Instead of
(02:55):
building up capacity, we import Canadian power to keep the
missions off our ledgers like mafia countants, cleverly skirting the
law while they convinced the world that they're making us cleaner, greener,
and smarter. Even as the lights flicker and the bills climb.
The people paying the price are not in press conferences
(03:16):
or policy meetings. They're at home, choosing between groceries and
the gas bill. I met them last winter in North Philly.
I was there to run focus groups on the impact
of rising energy costs. A father talked about replacing olive
garden dinners with Spaghettio. It's a shame that little League
wins no longer earned a night out. A grad student
turned her one bedroom apartment into a boarding house, three
(03:37):
people sharing the space just to keep the lights on.
A restaurant owner described her kitchen working in winter coats
because they couldn't afford to run the heat. These weren't
sob stories, they were quiet portraits of sacrifice and grit.
Since then, prices have jumped another seven percent percent despite
our reliance on Canadian imports. In twenty twenty four, this
(04:00):
is where we get to the meat of it, folks,
the US imported twenty seven thousand, two hundred gigawatt hours
of electricity from Canada. That is enough to cover twenty
percent of New York supply and fifteen percent of New
England's total winter load. Because we've made building new power
here nearly impossible and incentivized imported power through regulatory loopholes
(04:24):
that allow us to ignore any emissions that happen outside
the United States. It's a simple formula, export emissions, import virtue. Meanwhile,
domestic energy products in the Northeast stall, sputter or collapse.
We're sitting on four hundred and sixty nine billion tons
of coal, two point nine trillion cubic feet of gas,
(04:47):
and centuries of nuclear fuel. But in the United States,
building power plants now requires a legal team and decades
of hearings. We've turned power generation into a theater of guilt.
We're producing energy in the United States is too sinful
to permit, but importing it from somewhere else lets us
feel pure. It's not policy, it's penance. In twenty twenty one,
(05:10):
New York shut down the Indian Point Nuclear Plant, one
of its last sources of zero emissions based load power.
That same year, New York began ramping up electricity imports
from Canada to fill the gap, bringing in seven thousand,
six hundred gigawatt hours. Hydro electric power alone couldn't handle
(05:32):
the demand, so Ontario's gas plants fired up to meet
the demand, releasing an estimated one million tons of carbon
dioxide plant food. But because those emissions occurred north of
the border, New York claimed to drop in its own
energy sector emissions. And that's the game. When Canadian hydro falters,
(05:54):
Canadian gas steps in, but the emissions vanish on US.
Climate ledgers turned to Vermont, importing over eighty percent of
its electricity. Massachusetts and much of the rest of New
England operate from the same playbook. The grid operators they
belong to import around fifteen percent of its winter peak
from Canada. When hydro output dropped eighteen percent due to drought,
(06:18):
gas peaker plants and fossil fuels save the day. In
twenty twenty three alone, utilities in Quebec, Ontario, and New
Brunswick generated an estimated thirteen point four million metric tons
of carbon dioxide plant food, none of which appear on
the emission ledgers of states like Massachusetts and Vermont, despite
(06:39):
their heavily reliance unimported power from those provinces. Meanwhile, the
twelve hundred megawat Commonwealth wind project was canceled outright after
a developer paid fifty million dollars to walk away, citing
financial infeasibility and permitting delays. This is not a glitch
in the system. Is the system and I love this line.
(07:05):
A nineteen to ninety nine rule by the Environmental Protection
Agency allows states to treat imported electricity as emissions free,
regardless of how it's generated. I don't make the rules, man,
I just think them up and write them down. It's
a convenient accounting trick that lets politicians hit climate targets
(07:27):
without actually reducing actual emissions. At the same time, domestic
energy projects face a labyrinth of legal, regulatory, and activist
roadblocks thanks to laws like Title VIV of the Clean
Air Act and a permitting system that treats any new
infrastructure as a threat until proven otherwise. We've built the
(07:48):
political culture that worships the optics of clean energy while
punishing the act of actually producing it. Across the Northeast,
domestic energy projects don't just struggle. They're buried. Offshore wind
collapses under lawsuits over fishing rights in ocean views, small
modular reactors gathered dust in regulatory limbo. Pipelines are killed
(08:09):
over silt and wetlands. Nuclear plants drowned in litigation. In
twenty sixteen, New York veto to the Constitution pipeline, leaving
the Marcella Shale untapped. Two years later, during a brutal
cults in a Massachusetts imported liquefied natural gas from Russia
(08:29):
rather than lay pipe from Pennsylvania. A proposed forty two
megawat biomass plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, was blocked on a
technicality in twenty twenty one after years of permit delays
and concerns over quote unquote environmental justice. Clean local energy
was too controversial, imported emissions no comment. Altogether, the region
(08:56):
has canceled enough projects to generate forty two thousand gigawatt
hours annually, more than fifty percent above the power we
imported from Canada in twenty twenty four. We're not out
of energy, we just outlawed reality. We pretend its progress,
We pretend the air is cleaner. We pretend that exporting
(09:19):
emissions is environmentalism. It's not. It's theater for climate lobbies,
campaign sound bites, and activists to measure success and press releases,
not power output. The emissions remain, only the guilt is outsourced.
So No Ford's tariff thread isn't the story. It's just
the headline. The real story is what made that threat possible.
(09:43):
Our addiction to imported virtue, our refusal to build in
a regulatory culture that punishes the very act of producing energy.
We're not short on power, we're just too sanctimonious to
generate it. Thank you for indulging me on that I
thought he made awesome points. And isn't it crazy the
(10:03):
nineteen ninety nine rule imported electricity is emissions free. They
could be using the dirtiest coal plants on the planet
in Canada, but because that smoke isn't coming out of
the state of New York or ver modern New Jersey,
its counts as emissions free. You see the nonsense. And
(10:25):
all this we import products from China, the component products
for all these environmentally correct green electric vehicles, with the
exception of teslas, which apparently you're not allowed to drive
anymore because well, yeah, evil space man, they come from
coal plants, energy generated by coal plants in China. Aren't
(10:50):
we all breathing the same air on this globe of ours?
Don't the winds flow? And it is an amazing reality
that one volcanic eruption can negate all of the efforts
to get rid of carbon from the atmosphere. And again,
carbon dioxide's plant food. It's plant food. It's a lie, man,
(11:14):
We are living a lie. This climate religion has got
people so damned delusional that they just you buy into
this six seventeen fifty five Kerosite talk station. I just
I just woke up in some sort of parallel universe.
I just don't know when it happened.
At six o six. I think about garre ceed talk station.
I hope you're having a happy Tuesday. Coming up inside
scoop with bright Bart News every Tuesday, nay o five.
Today Kurtz and Dalka, the bright Bart London Debut editor.
What in the hell is going on with the French
election parallels to what happened with Trump? That the subject
matter with Kurt followed by the Daniel Davis deep dive
the latest on the Russia Ukraine. Trump apparently not real
(00:23):
happy with Vladimir and Putin right now an Zelensky, I
guess pulling out of that mineral deal that I thought
was kind of negotiated, sort of kind of Plus, you
see surgeons are using three D printed organs in the
operating room. Just that brief statement about the subject matter, right,
we're talking about you see researcher doctor Prasha Robbie, he'll
(00:44):
be a guest on at eight forty five to explain
that to us. And I've never done this before, but
I got a great reaction to an op ed piece
out of Reason the other day. Mark Osterich, who was
described as a founding partner of a nonprofit firm Crane
and Gray, and the editor of a daily energy newsletter
called Gridbrief. But he did such a beautiful job explaining
(01:05):
the bat crap insanity of United States energy policy that
I just wanted to bring it back to everybody's attention
because I didn't get to it till the very end
of the program, and I only read a part of it,
but I got so many requests for the link to
the article. I've just asked Jostreker to put a link
to it on my blog page or podcast blog page
(01:26):
at fifty five caresee dot com. Because when you contemplate
his words and they make perfect sense, you realize what
a lie and a bill of goods we've been sold
on this whole green crap. Anyway, bear with me and
enjoy if you haven't heard it before. We're not short
(01:48):
on power, we're just too sanctimonious to generate. At the
caption of the article, I recall Ontario Premier Doug Ford
he threatened at twenty five percent retally on American energy exports,
and I know he pulled that off the table, but
that's the predicate for this wonderfully written analysis. And he
(02:13):
writes the headline framed as another Trump tariff story Ontario
premiere Doug Ford threatening a twenty five percent retaliation in
American energy exports. But the real story of the Northeastern
energy crisis is more than a cross border drama and
goes back well before the tariffs and trumpeting. Ford's threat
is the latest lash and a decade's long ritual of
(02:35):
energy self flagellation. US regulators and lawmakers have been kneecapping
American energy electricity production with regulation after regulations, smothering new
projects in the name of preservation wetlands of the Northeastern
bullrush sedge, often before they even break ground. Instead of
(02:55):
building up capacity, we import Canadian power to keep the
missions off our ledgers like mafia countants, cleverly skirting the
law while they convinced the world that they're making us cleaner, greener,
and smarter. Even as the lights flicker and the bills climb.
The people paying the price are not in press conferences
(03:16):
or policy meetings. They're at home, choosing between groceries and
the gas bill. I met them last winter in North Philly.
I was there to run focus groups on the impact
of rising energy costs. A father talked about replacing olive
garden dinners with Spaghettio. It's a shame that little League
wins no longer earned a night out. A grad student
turned her one bedroom apartment into a boarding house, three
(03:37):
people sharing the space just to keep the lights on.
A restaurant owner described her kitchen working in winter coats
because they couldn't afford to run the heat. These weren't
sob stories, they were quiet portraits of sacrifice and grit.
Since then, prices have jumped another seven percent percent despite
our reliance on Canadian imports. In twenty twenty four, this
(04:00):
is where we get to the meat of it, folks,
the US imported twenty seven thousand, two hundred gigawatt hours
of electricity from Canada. That is enough to cover twenty
percent of New York supply and fifteen percent of New
England's total winter load. Because we've made building new power
here nearly impossible and incentivized imported power through regulatory loopholes
(04:24):
that allow us to ignore any emissions that happen outside
the United States. It's a simple formula, export emissions, import virtue. Meanwhile,
domestic energy products in the Northeast stall, sputter or collapse.
We're sitting on four hundred and sixty nine billion tons
of coal, two point nine trillion cubic feet of gas,
(04:47):
and centuries of nuclear fuel. But in the United States,
building power plants now requires a legal team and decades
of hearings. We've turned power generation into a theater of guilt.
We're producing energy in the United States is too sinful
to permit, but importing it from somewhere else lets us
feel pure. It's not policy, it's penance. In twenty twenty one,
(05:10):
New York shut down the Indian Point Nuclear Plant, one
of its last sources of zero emissions based load power.
That same year, New York began ramping up electricity imports
from Canada to fill the gap, bringing in seven thousand,
six hundred gigawatt hours. Hydro electric power alone couldn't handle
(05:32):
the demand, so Ontario's gas plants fired up to meet
the demand, releasing an estimated one million tons of carbon
dioxide plant food. But because those emissions occurred north of
the border, New York claimed to drop in its own
energy sector emissions. And that's the game. When Canadian hydro falters,
(05:54):
Canadian gas steps in, but the emissions vanish on US.
Climate ledgers turned to Vermont, importing over eighty percent of
its electricity. Massachusetts and much of the rest of New
England operate from the same playbook. The grid operators they
belong to import around fifteen percent of its winter peak
from Canada. When hydro output dropped eighteen percent due to drought,
(06:18):
gas peaker plants and fossil fuels save the day. In
twenty twenty three alone, utilities in Quebec, Ontario, and New
Brunswick generated an estimated thirteen point four million metric tons
of carbon dioxide plant food, none of which appear on
the emission ledgers of states like Massachusetts and Vermont, despite
(06:39):
their heavily reliance unimported power from those provinces. Meanwhile, the
twelve hundred megawat Commonwealth wind project was canceled outright after
a developer paid fifty million dollars to walk away, citing
financial infeasibility and permitting delays. This is not a glitch
in the system. Is the system and I love this line.
(07:05):
A nineteen to ninety nine rule by the Environmental Protection
Agency allows states to treat imported electricity as emissions free,
regardless of how it's generated. I don't make the rules, man,
I just think them up and write them down. It's
a convenient accounting trick that lets politicians hit climate targets
(07:27):
without actually reducing actual emissions. At the same time, domestic
energy projects face a labyrinth of legal, regulatory, and activist
roadblocks thanks to laws like Title VIV of the Clean
Air Act and a permitting system that treats any new
infrastructure as a threat until proven otherwise. We've built the
(07:48):
political culture that worships the optics of clean energy while
punishing the act of actually producing it. Across the Northeast,
domestic energy projects don't just struggle. They're buried. Offshore wind
collapses under lawsuits over fishing rights in ocean views, small
modular reactors gathered dust in regulatory limbo. Pipelines are killed
(08:09):
over silt and wetlands. Nuclear plants drowned in litigation. In
twenty sixteen, New York veto to the Constitution pipeline, leaving
the Marcella Shale untapped. Two years later, during a brutal
cults in a Massachusetts imported liquefied natural gas from Russia
(08:29):
rather than lay pipe from Pennsylvania. A proposed forty two
megawat biomass plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, was blocked on a
technicality in twenty twenty one after years of permit delays
and concerns over quote unquote environmental justice. Clean local energy
was too controversial, imported emissions no comment. Altogether, the region
(08:56):
has canceled enough projects to generate forty two thousand gigawatt
hours annually, more than fifty percent above the power we
imported from Canada in twenty twenty four. We're not out
of energy, we just outlawed reality. We pretend its progress,
We pretend the air is cleaner. We pretend that exporting
(09:19):
emissions is environmentalism. It's not. It's theater for climate lobbies,
campaign sound bites, and activists to measure success and press releases,
not power output. The emissions remain, only the guilt is outsourced.
So No Ford's tariff thread isn't the story. It's just
the headline. The real story is what made that threat possible.
(09:43):
Our addiction to imported virtue, our refusal to build in
a regulatory culture that punishes the very act of producing energy.
We're not short on power, we're just too sanctimonious to
generate it. Thank you for indulging me on that I
thought he made awesome points. And isn't it crazy the
(10:03):
nineteen ninety nine rule imported electricity is emissions free. They
could be using the dirtiest coal plants on the planet
in Canada, but because that smoke isn't coming out of
the state of New York or ver modern New Jersey,
its counts as emissions free. You see the nonsense. And
(10:25):
all this we import products from China, the component products
for all these environmentally correct green electric vehicles, with the
exception of teslas, which apparently you're not allowed to drive
anymore because well, yeah, evil space man, they come from
coal plants, energy generated by coal plants in China. Aren't
(10:50):
we all breathing the same air on this globe of ours?
Don't the winds flow? And it is an amazing reality
that one volcanic eruption can negate all of the efforts
to get rid of carbon from the atmosphere. And again,
carbon dioxide's plant food. It's plant food. It's a lie, man,
(11:14):
We are living a lie. This climate religion has got
people so damned delusional that they just you buy into
this six seventeen fifty five Kerosite talk station. I just
I just woke up in some sort of parallel universe.
I just don't know when it happened.
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