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Monthly Archives: March 2010
BREAKING: Released Emails Show Wind Lobby, Soros Group Helped with White House PR (PJM Exclusive — Read the Emails Here)
From PJM – Emails recently obtained under the Freedom of Information Act — seen here for the first time — show how political influence and lobbyists are shaping Obama administration policy and public relations. Click the links below to read … Continue reading
From the Omaha Press Club – A discussion of Nebraska industrial wind.
This series of videos is provided for your viewing without comment. Yours are, of course, welcome. Part 1 of February 19, 2010 briefing to the Omaha Press Club by the director of the Nebraska Energy Office. Recorded by EV World.com. … Continue reading
Jon Boone at the Baltimore Sun: “The fantasy of wind power for Maryland”
From the Baltimore Sun: The fantasy of wind power for Maryland By Jon Boone March 8, 2010 An Abell Foundation report recently trumpeted the supposed “potential” of offshore wind to provide two-thirds of Maryland’s electricity needs. Talk about hot air. … Continue reading
John Hofmeister – “Despite the talk, ideology doesn’t translate to actual alternative energy”
Chasing votes with ‘clean and green’ – Despite the talk, ideology doesn’t translate to actual alternative energy By JOHN HOFMEISTER HOUSTON CHRONCLE March 6, 2010, 4:00PM Part one in a series. I’m a backer of wind, solar and biofuels as new, … Continue reading
Posted in Wind energy, Wind v Coal
Tagged Alternative Energy, fossil fuels, industrial wind, industrial wind politics, John Hofmeister
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“Wind power is unreliable, expensive and doesn’t result in lower C02 emmissions.”
Thanks to our friends at Wind Concerns Ontario for this piece from Michael Trebilock: Blowing away taxpayers Wind power is unreliable, expensive and doesn’t result in lower C02 emmissions. Why is Ontario still rushing ahead with it? By Michael Trebilcock, National … Continue reading
Russ Harding: “The U.S. Department of Energy should be providing us with unbiased energy information.”
Ignore the Facts! Green Jobs are Good By RUSS HARDING | 3/5/2010 11:50 AM Energy studies out of Spain and Denmark have shown that wind energy is a net jobs loser. These studies cast serious doubt regarding the optimistic claims of … Continue reading
Vermont citizen on industrial wind vote: “We wish Ira to remain as the Rutland Herald characterized it in 2007 as “pure Vermont.”
From the opinion page today at the Rutland (Vermont) Herald Online: Overwhelming vote on wind The people of Ira have spoken by nearly a fourfold majority that they are in favor of renewable energy, but not industrial wind turbines on … Continue reading
Posted in Concerned citizen letters
Tagged Industrial wind rejected, IRA Vermont, Vermont wind
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James Delingpole: “We also know that alternative energy is a fraud – only viable through enormous government (ie taxpayer subsidy) and utterly incapable of answering anything more than a fraction of our energy needs.”
From James Delingpole blogging at the Telegraph.co.uk – “What Dave and his chum Barack don’t want you to know about green jobs and green energy” (AT Note: Don’t miss the comment section following Mr. Delingpole’s post link above – Good … Continue reading
Of the industrial wind project’s 182 turbines, between 136 and 164 turbines, at any given time, effectively serve no purpose.
Did that get your attention? Good! Because earlier today, we commented on an article posted yesterday at OregonLive – Wind farm faces Oregon fight: Union joins the resistance to turbines that seemed to imply the other extreme – 100% output v … Continue reading
Wind developer says chewing up 47,000 acres of Oregon mountaintop for a wind farm is “an important project to the county and local economic development.” Now I gotta get back home to Houston and call my boss in Portugal.
The article begins: “Quaint little Union, spitting distance from northeast Oregon’s spectacular Eagle Cap Wilderness, hasn’t changed much since horseback desperadoes tried to rob the town bank in 1900.” Well, that’s all going to end if it’s up to Horizon … Continue reading
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