Lights On Oregon: the Dangers of the Radical Environmental Movement

Lights On Oregon, the Campaign for Affordable and Renewable Energy just released a new study revealing how fanatic environmental extremism poses grave dangers to us all. Below is a summarized version of the study. For more details, see the complete study, or this summary.

1. Energy is necessary 
• Energy shortfalls in Pakistan resulted in widespread rioting and massive injuries
• The 1997 New York City blackout that led to mass public hysteria and more than $61 million in property damage
• In 2003, 15,000 people died in France and another 5,000 throughout Western Europe when temperatures hit 104 degrees and there was not sufficient energy to provide cooling
  
2.  Radical Environmentalists have blocked many important energy projects in Oregon
• hydroelectric power generated from the Klamath River
• dams on the Snake River
• A wave project proposed near Florence to har­ness the immense power of the sea. It would have powered 15,000 homes and was planned to be expanded to power more than 100,000 homes
• The $1.3 billion proposed Shepherds Flat (wind farm) Project. It would have powered 22,000 homes.
3.  No energy project satisfies the radical fringe
• Radical environmentalists loudly denounce “big oil” and profess the need for clean, renewable, sustainable, af­fordable energy—at least when the media is listening. The truth is, as evidenced by their own actions, they are opposed to all forms of energy.
4. What do Oregonian's think?
• 66% favor construction of large wave energy farms in marine reserves off the Oregon coast.
• 62% favor building large wind energy farms in scenic or wildlife sensitive areas in Oregon.
• 60% favor building a natural gas pipeline across Oregon, to supply Oregon and the Western United States with natural gas.
• 73% believe environmental groups can be unfair and unreasonable in their efforts to stop energy development.
5. Conclusion
• Education and renewed dedication to the development and delivery of all energy are reasonable goals, and are goals that are supported by a broad majority of the public —the silent majority is too often drowned out by the media-grabbing radical fringe.