Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:09:23 -0400
Reply-To: Sam Conant <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Sam Conant <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
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I realize fully that this content is off the VW subject ....
You are right on the dime, Greg. I've been up to the Hydro Quebec to
observe the first and subsequent developments, and have read the rationales
for the projects which have truly devastated the entire human, animal and
geo-biological ecology of a region far larger than the state of Texas -
Think Hudson Bay north and east to the seas. I've met with and listened to
natives in that region. I've seen the dead carcasses and observed the
consequences of reversed water flows across the land.
The US energy sellers saw Hydro-Quebec as the absolute savior, and entered
into contracts which, by any standard, could have been viewed as not
consumer friendly in the U.S. But, fairness prevails, and I don't have any
problem with the Quebecois profit motives - just that our industry in the
U.S. was so damned callous about the truly destructive impact of our greed
on a fragile human and geo-physical ecology.
Some friends and colleagues of mine "Jim Higgins and David Boedy" helped
bring some of the indigent natives from the region to Vermont and,
eventually, to Washington, DC to testify about the disastrous results they
were already experiencing in that part of the world. They had documentation
about the effects on flora and fauna in that region as well. The folks with
public utility interests here in the Northeast and in Washington listened to
the utility lobbyists from Canada and the U.S. and the results are well
documented and known - ecologic and environmental destruction. And, here in
the U.S. we continue to argue about climatic warming, and using our dish
washers and air conditioning equipment.
Sam Conant
Colchester, Vermont
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Potts" <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Those Quebec hydro stations are owned by the Quebec government. back
> when the stations were built the Quebec gov't was gearing up to
> separate from Canada and wasn't in the least looking to share with
> Canadians. From what I've been told the Quebec grid was developed in
> a North-South direction, and due to some other technical issues of
> phase and voltage it isn't feasible to send the power westward.
>
> Kim, if we stopped exporting clean power then we'd simply wind up
> inhaling even MORE of the second-hand smoke that drifts across the
> border from US-based coal-fired generating stations.
>
> Happy Trails,
>
> Greg Potts
> 1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
> www.pottsfamily.ca
> www.busesofthecorn.com
>
>
>
>
> On 28-Jun-07, at 1:52 PM, Anthony Egeln wrote:
>
>> Is it possible that the Canadian power generating stations are at
>> least partially owned by Americans....or Brits or Dutch for that
>> matter? Just because the plant is in Canada doesn't mean that its
>> ownership is completely Canadian.
>>
>> It seems to me that the very important trade between Canada and the
>> U.S. goes both ways to the benefit of both Canadians and Americans!
>>
>> Anthony
>> '89 syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>>
>> KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> wrote: If Canada were to stop
>> exporting its electricity to the US, then more of that electricity
>> could be used domestically to power electric vehicles.
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Greg Potts wrote:
>>
>>> We do
>>> have wind, hydro-electric and nuclear power generating here but since
>>> all of that output is already spoken for the reality is that an
>>> electric Vanagon in Toronto is in actuality fueled by coal burned in
>>> Nanticoke On, or Ohio.
>>
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