A recent Rutland Herald editorial certainly celebrated the success of the Vermont activist group 350.org to sell a lot of our fellow Vermonters on the various benefits and demands to achieve the mirage of former Governor Peter Shumlin's goal of 90-percent renewable energy.
No one I know denies that there is climate change. We just do not have the conceit to believe a few Vermonters, or the growing population of the world, can realize this mirage, even if endorsed by politicians.
Many facts make stopping climate change as impossible as stopping the tides.
Let me just give you a few numbers to think about when you talk about a sustainable environment. Just-released figures, with all the subsidies, credits, mandates, and extended tariff guarantees, are replacing the equivalent of 0.5 MBPD (million barrels per day) of oil with renewable energy.
Longstanding opponents of Vermont Yankee have continually objected to NorthStar's proposed plan to decommission the nuclear plant within the next 10 years despite all of the near-term benefits. Most recently, a number of individuals have demanded that the Vermont Yankee site should be decontaminated to the level of 10...