The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
New York Wind Wars – Hiding the Facts
An indicator that we will have to ratchet up our anti-PTC effort soon
How Renewable Portfolio Standards Can Subvert The Economy
FERC Chair nominee targets natural gas
Electricity Demand Patterns Matter for Valuing Electricity Supply Resources
Wind Energy, The Devil and Local Representatives
Environmental and Economic Consequences of Turbines (video)
Good News: Green-Energy Preferences Via Partnership Status Stalls
Wind Turbines and the Promise of Money
Paying Wind Developers Not To Produce Electricity
DoD doles out $7 billion in wind-energy contracts
Debunking of Hoen’s latest turbine property value missive
Proof wind turbines will cut Scots house prices
Renewable power falls as Texas wind underperforms
Turbine Health Matters:
Epidemiologist concludes turbines are a health hazard
Windmills No Thanks – nuclear plants are far safer
A video about turbine neighbors in Fairhaven MA: Too Close
(See the two wildlife noise studies, below, which have human pertinence.)
Turbine Wildlife Matters:
A NPS Study: The Impacts of Noise on Wildlife
The Effect Of Noise On Wildlife: A Literature Review
Wildlife groups, wind industry meet on eagle permit rule
New Report about Eagles killed by Wind Turbines
South Africa turbines to kill rare bird species into extinction
Miscellaneous Energy News:
UN Ruling puts future wind development in question
A citizen prevails against wind energy and her national government
Sides lining up in FERC nomination fight
New York’s Ongoing Wind Energy Mistakes
State agencies ponder changes to wind-energy rules
Illinois County Improves their Wind Ordinance
Kudos: NYS Town passes law prohibiting industrial wind turbines
Seven Reasons to Reject Big Wind
Green Lobbyist pitches UE Council of Ministers
Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in Idaho?
US nuclear projects face construction challenges
Troubled wind project target of FBI scrutiny, industry criticism
Manmade Global Warming Articles:
The Main Problem with Climatism
Climate Science Exploited for Political Agenda
Peer-Reviewed Study Indicates Recent Warming Is Natural
Global warming may simply be an artifact of clean air laws
Australian Coalition takes axe to climate programs
Study: Climate models wildly overestimated global warming
Dialing Back the Alarm on Climate Change
NAS: climate models still ‘decades away’ from being useful
The Importance of Length-of-Record in Assessing Sea Level
Stop Denying Climate Science and Act!
Why are publicly-funded scientists allowed to keep their work secret?
If you still believe in ‘climate change’ read this…
Learning to Read Science Articles with a Critical Eye
Climate scientists are wrong — and here’s why
Climate Theories Crumble as Data and Experts Suggest Global Cooling
Dismantling the EPA’s extremist views regarding CO2
Nuclear and Gas Account for Most Carbon Displacement Since 1950
Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year
Greenhouse Gasses Cool the Earth?
65 million years of temperature swings
Other Articles of General Interest:
A fine essay: Re-education at George Mason
The Common Core Curriculum: Education’s Final Frontier
A Window Into Academia — A Resignation Letter
Our proposed national energy slogan is “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Once legislators have grasped that concept, the foolishness of the “leveling the playing field” idea also becomes apparent. (Should the 18-wheeler trucks and golf cart playing field be leveled?) Additionally, we should be using the term “unreliables” when speaking of renewables. Please pass these on. [US citizens should make sure to get up-to-speed with what is on our PTCFacts.Info pages, as the PTC is still a key political issue.]
Please pass this information on to other open-minded, science-oriented people. If you know anyone who would like to periodically like to get AWED emailings, please email me.
Thank you for your support.
Prior issues of the AWED newsletter at MR:
Recent Energy And Environmental News – September 16th 2013…
By John Droz, Jr. ~ This is the latest newsletter from John Droz. The most important recent environmental news is that Australian citizens have resoundingly voted in a new government that made a major issue of promoting more science-based energy and en…