From Niagara This Week:
The last time there was nary a light on glorious Niagara Falls was probably during the Northeast blackout in the summer of 2003.
Usually bathed in colourful light, later this month the falls will be shrouded in darkness again, this time intentionally along with most of the city, to help encourage energy conservation.
“How do you save the planet? One light at a time,” said Coun. Jim Diodati, who is challenging residents in the city and across the region to join in Earth Hour, a global movement turning out the lights for one hour March 29.
“It’s such a great idea and it’s not going to cost anyone anything. In fact its going to save money (on the hydro bills).”
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sounds neat, but how far do they plan on expanding the “blackout”?
As the article said, it’s only for an hour. I would assume thta participation is voluntary. I really can’t imagine the places on Clifton Hill, or either Casino, totally turning off their lights. It’ll be interesting to see what they all do…
Earth hour? She is laughing at us!
Laughing hard (and crying to herself in frustration)
Earth hour is at 8:00 tonight. Turning off the lights will probably save each household (most of them participating will already be using spiral flourescents) about 150 Watts. I plan to turn off my heat at 6:00 pm. I then plan to turn off my lights at 8pm and turn on every electric heater in the house, as well as the stove and dryer. This will save 150W and use up about 9000W, using 59 times the amount of power I would have normally used for the hour. (My house will then be warm, probably too warm, and I will save on heat later so this will actually cost me very little more). I’m sure most of these “green, veggie-juice drinking lefties” that turn out the lights will think nothing of leaving their 1200W coffee machines on for 3 hours tomorrow morning! Mine brews into an insulated carafe, which means it’s on for only 5 minutes a day… I could leave every one of my spiral lights on all day for the amount I save here. Screw turning out the lights… Get with it people! Get some REAL energy awareness, you idiotic morons!
Anyway, if I’d been on the ball, I would have started a campaign to get one out of 60 people to turn off their lights at 8:00 but turn on a whole bunch of power-hungry appliances to make the point that “turning out the lights” is totally and pitifully useless!!!!!!!!! Yet I’m sure all these damned lefties will be SOOOOO proud of themselves for a week at least!
Get with it YOU LEFTIES!
Pass this one on; I’d love to hear that power consumption didn’t change and see the puzzled look on the green faces! I’m not saying that lights don’t use energy, but come on people!: Educate yourselves about power consumption… Mother Nature doesn’t give a crap if we FEEL better about energy, she wants us to actually DO SOMETHING that helps! (Like a central heating system for cities that burn their own garbage in high temperature furnaces!)
mmm k
For those interested, I drove down and took a few pictures. It was interesting seeing all of the Fallsview hotels with their lights off. Hardly anything on Clifton Hill had their lights off.
Also, as an update, Build-A-Bear opened today. I have a couple of pictures of that as well.
Look for both of these on Monday.
calm down steve.
graham, build a bear didn’t look very finished in the last update you gave.