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“Particularly disturbing is the extent to which the disaster has been downplayed by … the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Britain and the Audubon Society in the US”
From the Christopher Booker – London Telegraph – Wind turbines: ‘Eco-friendly’ – but not to eagles (A red kite killed by colliding with a turbine in Spain, where up to a million birds a year may be dying in this way) … Continue reading
Investors Business Daily: “Subsidizing alternative energy fits the classic definition of insanity.”
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu “pushes bio-refineries and windmills to oil executives at an energy conference as the administration announces a three-year offshore drilling ban. This is a policy for economic suicide!” The editorial at Investors.com notes that despite huge subsidies, … Continue reading
Kenneth Green: “U.S. Wind Industry: Turbine Construction Won’t be Domestic”
Mr. Green, writing for the American Enterprise Institute makes this observation: “Anyone who knows that China’s labor rate is under $1.00 per hour, and that China holds 95% of the rare earth elements needed to produce most renewable energy systems … Continue reading
Glenn Schleede: Key Electric Industry Terms Important in Understanding Limitations of Wind Energy
Thanks to Mr. Glenn Schleede for providing the following excellent information, beginning with his Key Electric Industry Terms provided here for your convenience: Mr. Schleede also credits Eric Rosenbloom for pointing to this “excellent article from PowerGen Worldwide that explains how … Continue reading
To stop industrial wind you’ll probably have to boot your current legislator out of office.
Industrial wind doesn’t work! Chances are the legislators representing you either don’t know that, or they receive so much money or so many promises from the wind lobby they don’t care. Ignorance or greed, there’s not much in between. That … Continue reading
Wyoming’s Governor Dave Freudenthal: Wind companies “are not entitled to a free ride.”
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press: Taxes and ‘fairness’ Friday, March 12, 2010 Defenders of federal subsidies for inefficient alternative energy such as wind and solar power say the subsidies are justified because of tax breaks that oil companies get. … Continue reading
Jonathan Lester: “Renewable Energy Jeopardy: An Answer Searching for the Right Question”
Thanks to Jon Boone of Stop Ill Wind for pointing us to this excellent commentary at Energy Tribune. The author, Mr. Jonathan Lester suggests California is an excellent contestant in his “renewable energy jeopardy” game and that the answer is “renewable energy … Continue reading
Industrial wind shocker: Honoring CWEA request for subsidy parity, AWEA agrees to no longer accept taxpayer money. ha ha ha ha ha – Gotcha!
C’mon, you folks didn’t think there was any chance the American Wind Energy Association would agree to cut off the free flow of gimmies, did you? What has the Canadian Wind Energy Association, our neighbor’s equivalent of the US lobby … Continue reading
Posted in Wind Power subsidies, Wind tax rebates
Tagged AWEA, CWEA, taxpayer subsidy industrial wind
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Enjoy the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service live eagle cam.
The eagle nest is located approximately 75 miles from Washington, D.C. on the campus of The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ National Conservation Training Center. The campus is in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, along the Potomac River. Courtesy of the Outdoor … Continue reading
Posted in Allegheny Front Alliance, Archives, Eagles
Tagged Allegheny Front Alliance, Live eagle cam, Shepherdstown WV, USF&W
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Finally, the wind industry demands Congress enact Renewable Energy Standards! What??? … it doesn’t include minimum energy output from turbines?
Here’s the headline at Renewable Energy World that got my hopes up – Wind Industry Fires Back, Calls for RES But no, the “group of wind energy executives as well as the CEO of the American Wind Energy Association called on … Continue reading
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