Same song, different verse. Somebody wants to "go green" and build a renewable energy power plant. The ecowarriors swarm and find something to nitpick about, and poof! the plans go down in flames.
This time it's the Mount Hope Biomass Power Plant, torpedoed by the luddites at the Sierra Club.
The Mt. Hope Biomass Power Plant, a 30-megawatt generating facility proposed for Rockaway Township, suffered a regulatory setback today when the state ruled the project was inconsistent with New Jersey's water quality management rules.
The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, which claims the plant would increase air and water pollution, said the Department of Environmental Protection decision kills all hope for the plan. The plant, which would burn recycled wood-residue to create electricity, is proposed for the same site where a 14-year effort to build a hydro-electrical plant died in 2006.
Again and again progress falls victim to chicken-little environmentalism. Our state needs the electricity. We needed it 17 years ago when Rockaway first proposed a hydro-electrical plant for the site. That doesn't matter to the Gaia-worshipers, their goal is to foil development at every turn.
If we can't generate power in-state, we have to bring it in from somewhere else. That's basic logic. But once again the Sierra Club is front and center opposing an upgraded power transmission line project. Their mantra? Fight the Power, Oppose the Towers!
Got that? Fight the Power — they don't want us to have more electricity. Without electricity we'll freeze in the dark. That's not pro-environment, that's anti-people.
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