From the Watertown Daily Times
Rough Draft By Bob Gorman
Link ~ For some, green energy IS national, rational defense
JULY 16, 2012: Upstate New York Power Corp. wants to erect wind turbines on Galloo Island. ReEnergy Holdings wants to retrofit a coal-fired generator so it can burn biomass. The renewable energy plans may be different, but the companies have one thing in common: they want to sell the energy they produce to Fort Drum.
In reality, what the two companies have most in common is that neither one has a contract to sell anything to anybody, particularly Uncle Sam.
The dance being played out here is part of a nationwide cotillion in which our military is trying to figure out how to go green without going in the red. As tax dollars dry up, cutting costs through efficiency is a no-brainer, although no one expects National Grid to be called to perform an energy audit on a Virginia class nuclear sub.
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