Summer is upon us and lots of Marylanders will be heading to the Eastern Shore this weekend, perhaps to do a little boating. More precisely, a lot of Marylanders will be heading for the beaches this weekend. For many, the Eastern Shore is just a place they have to get through between the Bay Bridge [...]
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I have a few notes and comments on some recent items affecting the Chesapeake Bay. Crabs It looks as though the new crab regulations proposed by the state are going to stick. While there have been lots of complaints by watermen, particularly those on the lower Shore where female crabs predominate late in the summer, the [...] Like everyone else who follows politics, I’m impressed with the results of the recent congressional elections. What was more or less the ‘solid south’ for the GOP is not looking so solid anymore. Let’s take a look at the results. The 14th Congressional District in Illinois, formerly home to powerful GOP Speaker of the House [...] ‘TJH’ has added an excellent comment to my recent post on nuclear energy options and raised some issues which I think need to be explored a bit more. Basically, he makes three points: The nuclear waste disposal problem is not being solved, It’s been a soggy couple of days on the Shore and we’re looking at a few more before we finally break into our late spring and summer weather. While I’m waiting I want to catch up on a few items of interest that caught my eye over the past week. Energy prices continue to rise. [...] There have been a couple of recent development relating to energy supplies and prices in Maryland. Jay Hancock blogs in the Baltimore Sun that SEMPRA Energy has pulled the plug on its proposed new power plant in Frederick County. The natural gas-fired plant would have provided badly-needed capacity to Central Maryland and may have enabled [...] Pilgrim’s Pride is the latest chicken producer to report a loss. The report by this company, the largest chicken producer in the country, follows the loss reported by Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat producer, of a loss for the third quarter. Purdue Farms, the largest poultry producer on the Shore, is privately held [...] Well, I received my ‘economic stimulus’ yesterday. I’m not sure what we’ll do with it. Probably it will go into a money market account for the time being. The total tab for all of these economic stimulus checks (actually, wire transfers in most cases) is about $150 billion. Of course, the government doesn’t have [...] This is the second part of my two-part post examining energy options for reducing Maryland’s greenhouse gas emissions. In my previous post we looked at a variety of energy alternatives available to replace the large, base-load coal plants that generate so much greenhouse gas (and other pollution) in Maryland. We looked at ‘clean coal’ [...] |
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