Closing Bell: Red Hook Port Goes Electric
Today City Room broke the news that the Queen Mary 2 will be shutting down its engines when it docks at Red Hook Terminal and “plug into a giant electrical outlet built especially for the port.” We covered the health concerns associated with idling cruise ships at the port last summer, picked up from A…
Today City Room broke the news that the Queen Mary 2 will be shutting down its engines when it docks at Red Hook Terminal and “plug into a giant electrical outlet built especially for the port.” We covered the health concerns associated with idling cruise ships at the port last summer, picked up from A View From the Hook. The blog has followed this environmental concern from start to finish, especially the controversy over who should foot the bill. (Per City Room: “Under the five-year agreement, Carnival Cruise Lines, which owns the Queen Mary 2, will pay 12 cents per kilowatt hour, while the city economic agency and the power authority will divide the remaining 16 cents.”) After a rally for shore power in January, AVFTH said: “All I can say is let’s get this done. For our kids. For our neighborhood. For our city…It will be worth it.” And it’s done! Right on.
Cruise Ships in Brooklyn To Switch to Electrical Power [City Room]
Photo by Stan
not only would the smaller ships pollute more they would also get 100’s of trips from polluting diesel trucks going in and out of what was once a commercial port. This is just really political correct nonsense. Better spend the money on making all trucks less polluting for everyone than spend this amount of money to clean a non-residential neighborhood.
what, one ship every 9 days isn’t busy?
lol,GA, especially since the residents of this former busy port would have been sucking the exhaust of fifty or so ships on any given day not many decades ago.
You’re winking but I’m not smiling. ‘xplain to me why tax payers should be forced to subsidize affluent cruise ship companies and their passengers in order to protect the health of local residents?
oh the horror, we’re subsidizing wealthy ship owners now!
wink and a smile.
well said… claus oldenberg style
I really wish it was a huge cartoon-like plug… but alas, it probably ain’t.
I hope the QM II’s plug fits the American-style outlet.