Court-ready construction projects

Court lifts injunction, allows NYC flood-prevention project to resume. Stalled for over a year, still another appeal is planned by the litigants, so don’t look for progress yet. And, of course, “A separate but related suit was filed earlier this month claiming that the contract for the project doesn’t meet city and federal hiring-quota goals for involving minority- and women-owned businesses.”

Note that this sea wall is intended to protect the city from the mythical rising sea levels that the experts have told us will inundate New York by 2015 (oops). Its status as a “global warming” project is irrelevant., and the country will soon find that to be true for all the so-called build-back better construction planned for the future. “Millions of well-paid, union construction jobs”? Not in your children’s lifetime, but perhaps for your grandchildren, if society survives the coming apocalypse.

Examples abound:

After delaying it for ten years, Maine voters have finally killed a transmission line that would have brought “green”, hydro-electric power from Canada to New England. Also in Maine, a “staggering, $1.5 billion deposit of lithium has been discovered”, but the odds of it ever being exploited to power the electric cars the greens are so excited about are nil: Maine residents voted to ban all metal-mining in 2017, and they aren’t about to reverse that.

Every town, every county, every state has environmental groups that will sue to stop everything necessary to switch from fossil fuels to wind and solar. Lithium mines? Battery factories? Transmission lines to carry power from mid-western solar farms to populated states? Not gonna happen.

Ask Californians how that high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco went. Billions and billions over budget and years past its predicted completion date, it’s stuck in the desert and going nowhere, because Santa Clara County residents and politicians have blocked it from even coming near their gated communities.

And so on, across the land. In eight years: 2030, the production of cars and trucks powered by internal combustion engines will have ceased, heating and cooling homes with natural gas will have been banned, and power plants will be dependent on a pitifully inadequate supply of hot wind and 12 hours, maximum, of sunlight a day. We’ll all be living in the Greens’ Garden of Eden, but only they will be happy about it.