A Tale of two energy policies
To our North, the residents of Quebec flourish with cheap and abundant energy. Over the past 50 years, Canada pursued an energy policy of maximum output and production.
Hydro–Québec, the Canaidan public Utility Company is one of the largest hydropower producers on Earth. So much power is produced, that Hydro–Québec provides 10% of all of New England’s energy in the United States, as the Canadians have more power than they know what to do with.
The James Bay Project, or also called La Grand River System, is the backbone of Quebec’s hydropower empire. It is a massive hydropower system of a dozen power stations producing over 15 GW of energy, the equivalent of 15 nuclear reactors.
The Manicouagan–Outardes System, the Ottawa River System, Churchhill Falls, and over a half dozen other hydropower networks have made Quebec self sufficient on hydropower alone.
But Canada didn’t stop there.
ONTARIO: THE NUCLEAR CAPITAL OF NORTH AMERICA
Ontario, the Canadian province next to Canada, holds the largest fleet of nuclear reactors in all of North America. They include the following:
Ontario runs the largest nuclear fleet in North America.
🔹 Bruce Nuclear Generating Station
Location: Bruce County, Lake Huron
Reactors: 8 × CANDU
Capacity: ~6,600 MW
Status: Operating (refurbished & expanding output)
Largest nuclear plant in the world by output
🔹 Darlington Nuclear Generating Station
Location: Clarington (east of Toronto)
Reactors: 4 × CANDU
Capacity: ~3,500 MW
Status: Operating (mid-refurbishment)
SMRs planned on-site (small modular reactors)
🔹 Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
Location: Pickering (GTA)
Reactors: 6 operating (originally 8)
Capacity: ~3,100 MW
Status: Operating (life extension approved into mid-2020s)
These reactors allow Ontario to power itself completely using an energy grid run 75% on nuclear energy, with the remaining 25% from hydropower. The massive excess of nuclear power allows Ontario to export their energy to New York at a premium, when New York’s failing energy grid is short of supply needed for the demand.
But Nuclear and hydropower energy are not all that Canada exports to New York. By far the biggest Canadian energy industry that brings Canada enormous amounts of wealth from Dollars flowing north, is their massive fracking fields in their central plan provinces, where oil has been drawn up from the ground for decades, and shipped via pipelines to the east, and to their oil refineries and gas plants.
New York buys a massive amount of Canadian gas for energy in the winter time, when the solar fields fail, gas which is created directly from fracking, which Albany itself as banned.
That Canadian crude oil fracked from the ground is used for New York gas stations, diesel for equipment and our trucks, jet fuel for our airplanes, and oil for anything else we need.
In fact, Canada exports nearly 4 million barrels of oil each day over the border into United States, and makes roughly $140 billion a year from it. About 97% of Canada’s fracked oil, ends up being shipped over the border, where Americans pay top dollar.
There is one energy source that is not apart of Canada’s power grid though: Solar Panels.
Canada has gotten rich off of their pursuit of an energy policy based around Quebec’s Hydropower Empire, Ontario’s nuclear reactor fiefdom, and Alberta’s fracking dynasty. Together, these 3 provinces have cornered 3 energy industries that Albany leaders have completely shunned from for the past 50 years.
New York has the means to prosper on all 3 energy sources.
We can build hydropower dams along the upper Hudson River, all throughout the Erie Canal, on the Mohawk, and along the ST. Lawrence. We have over a dozen counties across Upstate New York willing to take Nuclear Reactors. If we built 12 Nuclear Power Plants in the State, one in each county that wanted one, built out a massive Hydropower grid, and opened up counties that wanted it to fracking (select areas of the state far from those who are most likely to oppose it), New York could become an energy giant. We could export energy instead of import it.
We could pay what Canada pays, instead of being their customer.
With this abundance of power, New Yorkers could see a massive drop in their utility bills. But… there is one more problem.
Albany has sold out our grid to foreign conglomerate monopolies.
All across New York, the State has leased the rights to energy delivery to consumers to foreign conglomerates, from Avangrid in Spain, to National Grid in England, to Central Hudson from Canada.
The way New York does it’s energy is in a peculiar way; the State, through the New York Power Authority, is tasked with the production of energy. The NYPA creates almost all of New York’s hydropower, and it does it very slow and inefficiently.
Even worse, thanks to the loud voices of a few activists, the NYPA has spent hundreds of millions of dollars attempting to build out a solar panel based grid in New York State.
A further $600 million is earmarked for the NYPA to build out even more solar farms from 2025 to 2028.
The problem with this is obvious; solar s not a sustainable source for a power grid, especially not in New York State.
New York must immediately abandon the solar farm adventures, and pursue the same energy policies as Canada. Otherwise, utility bills will only keep going up.
The foreign companies tasked with managing delivery must get approval from the Public Service Commission for any rate increases and fees they charge. The Public Service Commission in itself is another giant, bloated, taxpayer wasted agency, with a budget of $200 million, a Board of Commissioners paid a quarter of a million dollars a year each, and a 520 strong workforce. The Board is appointed by the Governor, and it is yet another example of unnecessary patronage and rot that costs New Yorkers a fortune.
All of these layers; the New York Power Authority, the Public Service Commission, the Foreign companies managing the delivery of energy to the customer, solar panel activists pressuring Albany leaders to pursue energy policies that don’t work, and even solar companies lobbying political leaders into pursuing a Solar agenda, have destroyed the State’s energy producing infrastructure.
AN ENERGY SOLUTION
I propose the following point plan to fix New York’s Energy infrastructure:
- Immediately abandon all solar panel pursuit by the State Government.
- Secure Federally backed, low interest industrial loans to American companies to build 12 nuclear reactors across New York State, in Counties that vote to accept them.
- Abolish the Public Service Commission entirely.
- Put Public Service Commission duties within the New York Power Authority.
- Make the Head of the New York Power Authority an elected position.
- An immediate ban of foreign companies from handling delivery and consumer dealings of energy for New York.
- Put the NYPA in control of delivery through a rapid phased in procedure, unless local public utilities, like the Delaware County Electric Coop, Plattsburgh municipal electric utility and other others are already in control of delivery.
- Encourage local and county utility services to take over energy delivery. Green Island and Plattsburgh have public utilities handling delivery and pay 30-50% less in bills than the rest of New York.
- Unleash Private industrial energy might across New York. Through either State-backed low interest industrial loans, or federal industrial loans at rates of 1-2%, private American companies, and even better, New York based small businesses and companies, will be granted loans to build out dozens of hydropower dams, natural gas plants, oil refineries, and pipelines. The NYPA or other experienced entities would handle nuclear reactors and largescale hydropower dam projects.
- allow counties to opt-in to fracking. Fracking has been done for decades now in other states. We buy fracked oil from Pennsylvania and Canada. It is nonsensical not to frack selectively, safelyand under close State supervision, here at home.
- Build 3 oil refineries to process crude oil domestically. Right now New York must import oil even from other States since we ourselves do not have our own oil refineries. Meanwhile, 30 other states hold over 130 oil refineries. We cannot have cheap gas unless we have a way to refine it. Refineries would bring jobs and revenue to the State.
- My economic plan for New York. Repeal the State Income tax, Repeal the Federal gas and diesel tax and replace with a 1.5% tariff, repeal payroll taxes to incentivize work and replace with a strong tariff to secure out essential programs, and repeal the Federal Income Tax for every person and business making under $1 million a year annually.
This agenda would be the largest energy industrial buildout project that New York State has ever seen, or even the country has ever seen. But if we want affordable energy, it must be done.
America has not built a hydropower dam since 1979. I am proposing that New York State alone build dozens.
If we can spent hundreds of billions building out infrastructure in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past 25 years, we can invest in our own energy future.
A Hydropower Blueprint for New York
Phase 1 (0–24 months): “Immediate MW” from existing assets
A) Upgrade NYPA big hydro (Niagara + St. Lawrence)
Goal: squeeze more output with:
turbine runner replacements
generator rewinds
digital controls + efficiency upgrades
transformer yard modernization
reduced downtime maintenance sequencing
Why: You can often gain meaningful MW and MWh without building anything new—just modernizing.
B) Add generation to non-powered dams (NPDs)
New York has many dams that do not generate power (flood control, water supply, navigation, old mill dams).
Program: “NPD-to-MW” conversions:
low-head Kaplan/bulb turbines
fish-friendly turbine designs where needed
no new impoundment—use existing head
C) Municipal & private hydro repower grants
Give towns/cities incentives to upgrade old small hydro:
replace old turbines
automation
add modern screens/fish passage
standard interconnect templates
Deliverable: 20–50 small projects that add up.
Phase 2 (1–4 years): Erie Canal Hydropower Program
This is the sleeper hit because the canal already has:
controlled flows
drops/locks
structures where energy is being dissipated
A) “Canal Drop” powerhouses
Target every location where water drops elevation and energy is wasted.
Standard kit: containerized powerhouse + low-head turbine + generator, installed adjacent to existing structures.
B) Lock/Spillway micro-hydro
Install turbines on:
lock bypass flows
spill gates
controlled releases
feeder canals
Rule: no change in navigation operations; hydro is “along for the ride.”
C) Canal + Storage (where feasible)
Where there’s suitable terrain nearby:
build small pumped-storage ponds adjacent to the canal system
pump during low-cost hours, generate during peak
Deliverable: A branded program (“Erie Canal Power”) with dozens of repeatable installations.
Phase 3 (2–8 years): Hudson River North Hydro Corridor
You said: above the Troy Dam. The Hudson north of Troy becomes a different river system (more elevation changes and narrower reaches) and the political/environmental terrain changes too.
A) “Navigation + Low-head” sites (where they exist)
Where there are existing control structures, falls, or constrained channels:
run-of-river plants that don’t materially alter river stage beyond existing ranges
B) Tributary-based hydro (often easier than mainstem)
The big opportunity is often Hudson tributaries, not the main river:
Mohawk system (and its tributaries)
Sacandaga releases
Hoosic, Batten Kill (select segments)
Upper Hudson tributaries with existing dams
Why: tributaries can offer head without touching the main navigation and mainstem ecology as hard.
C) “No new flooding” design requirement
If you want this to survive scrutiny, you set a policy:
no new large impoundments
no meaningful upstream inundation beyond existing footprints
fish passage + minimum flows baked in
Deliverable: A map of “Hydro Opportunity Reaches” that are politically survivable.
Phase 4 (3–12 years): St. Lawrence Expansion Strategy
The St. Lawrence is already a powerhouse corridor, but it’s also constrained by:
international coordination
navigation
existing water level management
So the practical play is expansion by modernization + add-ons, not fantasy mega-dams every 20 miles.
A) Expand capacity at existing St. Lawrence complexes (where possible)
uprates
add units if civil works allow
modern dispatch/control upgrades
B) New generation at existing control structures / rapids management
If there are regulated structures, the best approach is “add generation to what’s already managed.”
C) Cross-border power strategy (NY leverage)
Even when you can’t build more on the river, you can:
build more transmission/import capability
lock in long-term pricing
tie imports to “NY bills relief” commitments
Deliverable: St. Lawrence “Capacity + Intertie” plan: upgrades + grid strategy.
Phase 5 (3–15 years): Pumped Storage “Hydro Batteries” (biggest lever)
If you want cheap power and reliability, pumped storage is the crown jewel.
A) Identify 5–10 candidate pumped storage zones
Best candidates have:
steep elevation difference
existing reservoirs/quarries/mines (to avoid new flooding fights)
strong transmission nearby
supportive local politics
B) Build a state pipeline
Run pumped storage like a pipeline:
2–3 projects in permitting
2 in construction
2 in design
repeat
Deliverable: “NY Hydro Battery Program” that turns hydro into peak power.
1) End the Federal Income Tax for Working Americans
For most of America’s existence, there was no federal income tax at all.
When it was introduced in 1913, Americans were promised it would be:
temporary,
used only to fund WWI, and
applied only to the richest 1%.
Instead, it became a permanent burden on working families.
I will introduce a bill to repeal the federal income tax for every person and business earning under $1 million a year.
Working Americans will keep every dollar they earn — the way America used to operate.
2) End All Foreign Aid
America spends $50 billion a year on foreign aid while half of Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency.
This is national insanity.
I will introduce a bill to end all foreign aid immediately, and keep that money here at home.
3) Kick Out NYSEG, National Grid & Foreign Power Companies – Restore Energy Independence
New York once had:
the cheapest electricity in the world,
the first electrified homes in America,
Politicians sold us out, handing our grid to a British for-profit corporation, National Grid — or Spanish conglomerate Avangrid which owns NYSEG, while banning nuclear reactors, hydropower dams, fracking, and oil development.
We have failed to invest in our Country’s infrustructure, while building hydropower dams and power grids in other countries around the world. In fact, we have spent so much money overseas the past 25 years (between $5 and $8 trillion), it was enough to pay every American household’s electric bill for 34 years.
Meanwhile, we now pay Canada for power generated with methods our politicians banned here.
I will introduce a bill to:
Ban foreign corporations from running America’s power grids
Push for legislation to put delivery of energy back in the hands of local public municipal utilities.
- Unleash Private American industry to build nuclear power plants, hydropower dams, oil refineries, pipelines and natural gas plants.
Allow counties to opt-in to fracking
Finance this new industrial energy revolution through federally backed, low interest industrial loans (not corporate handouts!) to American and New York companies. We must reclaim energy sovereignty.
4) End the American Empire – Bring Our Troops Home
We maintain 750+ overseas bases while American towns crumble. We hold 13 air bases in England and 120 military installations in Japan. We have arctic bases and bases on volcanic islands in the pacific. This can be greatly downsized to emphasize a few strategic bases worldwide, maintaining our defense while also saving Americans trillions, and allowing for full tax repeals.
I will introduce a bill to:
Close over 95% of foreign bases
Bring troops home
Reinforce our own borders
Rebuild our own cities, not foreign governments
Audit the Pentagon to end waste and fraud
Even with 95% of overseas bases closed, the United States would still retain 15 bases, more than enough to carry whatever minimal strategic goals we have across the world. We can still maintain a major military base in Germany, Spain, The middle east, the pacific, Japan and Korea.
America must focus on defending America though, not maintain an unaffordable empire.
5) Revive American Industry and Agriculture
Foreign nations have advantages America does not, because of our own outdated laws.
I will introduce a bill :
Raise U.S. trucking weight limits to 102,000 lbs
Expand trucker duty windows to 15 hours, like Canada
Modernize slaughter laws: allow veterinarians and privately certified farm clinics to act as USDA inspectors,. This will put local ranchers and farmers on an even playing field with those in Australia and Brazil, both countries with similar rules and who export meat to United States.
Allow farmers to process and sell meat for domestic or international export with vet certification
Repeal federal gas and diesel taxes
Replace payroll taxes with tariffs
Break corporate meatpacking monopolies and return food processing to local communities
America should grow, raise, build, process, and ship its own products, not outsource them.
6) Restore Sound Money, End Inflation
Inflation is not an accident. It is government policy.
I will introduce a bill to:
Restore a Bretton Woods-style gold standard
Audit the Federal Reserve
Stop reckless money printing
Protect the value of the dollar and the savings of every American family
Strong money means strong wages.
7) Push for States to prohibit Property Taxes from being above 0.50%- Restore Homeownership
This is one of my most controversial plans. The property tax increases nationwide is a national crisis. The Federal Government can encourage states to ban municipalities from taxing homeowners more than 0.50% of the appraised value of their home. The Federal Government can and should use federal funding withholdings for States that do not comply.
Why 0.50%?
Because this was the actual property-tax rate for nearly all of U.S. history.
From the 1700s through the early 20th century, Americans paid 0.25%–0.50%, commonly at the low end.
Today, property taxes have exploded:
1.11% national average
2–3%+ in states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Texas
A family in New York buying a $300,000 home pays $9,000 a year just to “keep” it.
That is not homeownership. that is permanent rent to the government.
This reform alone will revitalize the entire American middle class.
8) Fair Taxation for the Ultra-Rich and Mega-Corporations
Americans making under $1 million should pay no income tax.
But the corporations and individuals who profit the most from American infrastructure will finally contribute their fair share.
I will introduce a revised tax bracket as follows:
A 55% federal income-tax bracket for all companies and individuals earning over $100 million a year
A 65% bracket for all companies and individuals earning over $500 million a year
A crackdown on offshore tax havens
Elimination of corporate loopholes
Bracket 1: $0 – $993,000
Tax Rate: 0%
Bracket 2: $993,000 – $50,043,000
Tax Rate: 37%
Bracket 3: $50,043,001 – $500,973,000
Tax Rate: 50%
Bracket 4: $500,973,001 and above
Tax Rate: 65%
The bottom 99% get tax freedom, the ultra-elite pay the bill they’ve avoided for decades. Walmart and Amazon became rich off of free trade and cheap overseas labor. That stops.
By doing this dramatic repeal, we can also enact the Abolition of the IRS, saving tax payers billions.
Since only the wealthy would pay income tax, the IRS can be dissolved, Replaced with a limited-scope Tariff & Revenue Bureau within the Department of the Treasury. It’s focus could be on tariff administration, high-income audits, corporate tax enforcement, and excise and health-tariff compliance.
9) Restore Tariffs and End Globalist Trade
From the Founding through 1913, tariffs funded nearly the entire federal government.
I will introduce a bill to:
Restore tariffs to rebuild American manufacturing
Replace payroll taxes with tariffs
Protect American workers from foreign competitors whose governments subsidize their industries
This is how America funded itself for 150 years, and it worked. By doing this, we get rid of income tax, payroll tax, gas tax, diesel tax, capital gains tax, and many other bureaucratic taxes.
10) Streamline the Federal Government to save tax payer trillions
To help pay off the catastrophic $38 trillion debt, Federal downsizing and restructuring must occur.
I will introduce a bill shutting down a number of agencies, which must be done to save the tax payers money.
These include:
- The CIA (Intelligence streamlined into a bureau of the Department of Defense)
- The ATF (streamlined into FBI)
- The DEA (Streamlined into FBI)
- Medicaid (saving tax payers a trillion annually and replacing with a better system for both those who want a public option, and those who want a market option)
- The IRS
- Over 750 overseas military installations, leaving 8 remaining.
- 50% to 70% of the Pentagon.
SUMMARY: WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
After all reductions, the core functions that remain include:
Treasury (with Tariff & Revenue Bureau)
Defense (significantly smaller, domestically focused)
Justice (with FBI expanded to absorb ATF/DEA functions)
State Department (scaled-down diplomatic operations)
Homeland Security (essential components only)
VA (expanded to include civilian-access basic healthcare)
Core environmental safety
Federal courts
Social Security (funded through tariffs, not payroll taxes)
11) Restore America’s Immigration System to Pre-1965 Priorities
The 1965 Immigration Act fundamentally altered the demographics and stability of the nation.
I will reverse it and restore control to the American people.
I will introduce a bill to:
Repeal the Immigration Act of 1965
Withdraw from all asylum treaties forcing the U.S. to accept claims
End all H-1B visas and corporate guest-worker pipelines
Allow and streamline temporary farm-worker visas only.
Bar foreign-born nationals from all federal elected or appointed offices
Prioritize immigration from culturally compatible nations
End sanctuary cities
Deport all recent illegal entrants
And most importantly:
Make illegal entry a federal felony, punishable by 15 years in prison, mandatory deportation, and a lifetime re-entry ban.
