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New York’s “net zero” energy plans, dominated by Democrats and environmentalists, are likely to fail due to unrealistic goals, such as achieving 70% of electricity from “renewables” by 2030 and 100% from “zero emissions” sources by 2040.
More than halfway to the 2030 deadline, the progress toward the 70% renewable electricity goal has actually been negative, Francis Menton writes.
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Watching The End Game Of New York’s Climate Madness Begin To Play Out
By Francis Menton, 8 September 2025
As I have written many times, with New York’s fantasy “net zero” energy plans, it is not a question of whether they will fail, but only when and how. The Democrats, who dominate state politics and their environmentalist allies, are firmly committed to the impossible. Thus, they are caught in a trap of their own making, and from which there is no good escape. The fact that they are caught in this trap is obvious to anyone with basic arithmetic skills, but almost all of our politicians and environmentalists lack those. However, a small handful of them are starting to sense the impending crash. This makes for amusing interplay.
The state’s Climate Act of 2019 directs hostility to fossil fuels on all fronts. In the realm of electricity, the Act mandates 70% of electricity from “renewables” by 2030, and 100% from “zero emissions” sources by 2040. The official plan for achieving those mandates basically boils down to building lots of wind turbines and solar panels, and then lots more of the same – principally offshore wind turbines – until a flood of infinitely “free” wind and sun washes over us and brings us to energy nirvana. Meanwhile, also on the path to “net zero,” development of natural gas infrastructure is to be halted and reversed. More than halfway to the 2030 deadline, the progress toward the 70% renewable electricity goal has actually been negative (due to the premature closure of two large nuclear power plants). On the natural gas front, two big pipeline projects have been blocked by the state environmental regulator (DEC) on phoney grounds of “water quality.” And, meanwhile, there are plans for big new electricity consumers (chip plants and data centres) in the upstate area.
Time to crank up the wind turbines! And then President Trump swept back into office and, as one of his first acts, pulled the plug on the offshore wind projects.
So as of this past Spring, here’s where we were: lots of new electricity demand coming along, all new natural gas infrastructure (including two big new pipelines) blocked, and the planned future of wind turbines (which wouldn’t work in any event) also blocked. Does anyone see a potential problem here?
I have called our Governor, Kathy Hochul, an “airhead,” which may be unfair to air, but even an airhead could see that something here was not going to work. On 29 May, The New York Times reported that the two blocked natural gas pipelines were going to get a “second chance.” Apparently, there had been some kind of informal, oral deal struck between Governor Hochul and President Trump, whereby Hochul would unblock the two natural gas pipelines, in return for Trump unblocking at least one of the big offshore wind farms that Hochul wants to build. This subject was covered by Manhattan Contrarian HERE on 4 June.
But was this apparent “agreement” real or not? In the intervening three months, I have been keeping my eye open for any concrete developments. There have finally been some in the past few days.
Spectrum News reported on 4 September that the Department of Environmental Conservation – an agency under the control of the Governor – after having rejected the two natural gas pipelines back in 2020, had instituted a “brief” re-opening of the “comment period” on the issue:
The Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline (NESE) and Constitution Pipelines have both faced repeated rejections from the state Department of Environmental Conservation, but have seen their applications revived after conversations between Hochul and President Donald Trump earlier this year. NESE is further along and recently saw the public comment period conclude after a brief extension …
This looks like code that approval of the pipelines by the state regulator may be imminent. This immediately set off a frenzy of reactions from the crazy left in the legislature. Liz Krueger, the State Senator who represents the Upper East Side of Manhattan, led the charge. Here is a picture of Ms. Krueger:
“We can’t do this in New York,”state Sen. Liz Krueger said in a Thursday [4 September 2025] morning virtual news conference. “They are dangerous; they will do harm to people in any number of communities across the state. They are not necessary; they will put us backwards on our goals,” she said of the pipelines. “States need to stand up and say, ‘no, we’re not going to do these things’,” she said. “There is no better example for us than New York having to say, ‘no, we’re not going to approve pipelines we’ve already rejected on endless environmental grounds’,” she said.
And what exactly is Ms. Kreuger’s plan to provide electricity for our 21st century economy? She did not see fit to address that issue. She comes from the class of people who think that electricity comes from wall sockets.
Others from the loony left brigade of the state legislature also joined the fray. For example, Assembly member Anna Kelles – the representative from ultra-crazy Ithaca – piped in:
Assembly member Anna Kelles added that she expects the state will be sued for violating its own climate law if the pipelines are approved.
Here is a response from a representative of the Governor, named Ken Lovett:
As the White House rejects any new permitting of offshore wind projects and Republicans in Congress cut billions in subsidies for renewable energy, we’d hope these legislators and advocates would join the Governor in pushing an all-of-the-above approach to ensure we keep the lights on for New Yorkers …
Sorry, Ken, but I don’t think that there is any compromise with these people who think that energy is produced by magic. I’m looking forward to seeing the factions of the New York Democratic Party fight this out in the coming months. I’m kind of hoping that the crazies win, at least initially, and we get a few good blackouts to educate us.
About the Author
Francis Menton is a former partner of the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He is President of the American Friends, an affiliate of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Menton publishes blogs on the website Manhattan Contrarian, “blogs from the West Village neighbourhood in Manhattan” which is suffering from a stifling political and ideological orthodoxy.
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“The Democrats… are firmly committed to the impossible.”
Yes which is why they support geoengineering to prevent “global warming” while simultaneously claiming solar power will take the place of fossil fuels.
Solar radiation modification – aka “sun dimming” – is obviously a massive mistake in that regard, yet they are right behind that too.
There is no international regulation of geo-engineering so private companies and governments can to do whatever they like. Injecting millions of tons of heavy metal particles into the stratosphere, using high-altitude aircraft alters wind and rainfall patterns, causes drought and acid rain, sterilizes soil and depletes the ozone layer. Even NASA admits chemtrails are warming the planet!
Aluminum is showing up in rain tests and in bees and whales. The animal extinction rate is now 10,000 times higher than its natural variability. Forests are filled with dead and dying trees.
Since 2022, more than 500 scientists from 61 countries have called for an international non use agreement on solar geoengineering which has now been going on for over 70 years! With budgets running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, these programs are a massive tax payer funded revenue source.
Instead of being worried about power blackouts we should be more concerned about blacking out the entire planet due to the myopic greed of a few ignorant people in high places.
Go to geoengineeringwatch to see the full depressing situation.
I bet we will be in the real world of “The Hunger Games” by 2050. Thank goodness there’s only a very slim chance I’ll be alive to see it.
Which climate talked of is never asked or specified. All just assume natural one despite fact political climate has undeniably changed into existential threat.
Net income is what we get after tax. Net-zero is us left with zero, even own life, after ‘tax’. We get 0% and taxers get 100%.
‘Net-zero’ is to harm us in order to reduce population. No intention to supply all. Not now supply to meet demand. Now reduce demand to suit supply.
‘Net-zero’ succeeds by causing death by dehydration, hypothermia, starvation.
70% electricity from “renewables” by 2030 achieved by reducing electricity from all other sources until ‘renewables’ are providing 70% of reduced total.
Data centres further reduce reduced supply of water, energy and farmland, causing more deaths.