The environmentalists don’t always get there way. The entire time it was built the little people were being ignored. Like a little dog barking like crazy inside a parked car as you walk by.
I doubt very very much that it was due to Cuomo’s knowledge, idea or demand to order that plant be built. That decision had to be a natural business decision, and investment decision, to save money and glean profits.
They THOUGHT they had to come up with a cheaper form of energy, until Oil crashed. A neighbor of mine told me his wife, because of last years high prices, “locked in” $3.80/gallon an oil heating contract with an oil delivery company. I recently paid $2.29.