Energy & Environmental Review: January 21, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- January 21, 2025

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Biden Gives $27 Billion for Clean-Energy Deals in Final Days
*** Economic Health Watch: Affordability of Necessities
Why do wind projects get the gas price?

Unreliables (General):
*** Big Wind & Big Solar are Trying to Sue Rural America into Submission
*** Green Fantasies Have Adverse Consequences
Germans’ Pushback on Green Energy Topples Gov’t Leadership
Trump’s energy policies are a game changer for renewables
Deconstructing a continuing green scheme

Wind Energy — Offshore:
NOAA’s “no evidence” that wind kills whales violates the Information Quality Act
NOAA Withdraws Critical Right Whale Protection Rule Changes

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration
How Much Oil Is Required to Run a Wind Turbine?…

Election Realities, Progress Ahead

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 20, 2025

“The enemy is not Donald Trump and never has been. The enemy is Statism. Left libertarians such as David Boaz and Tom Palmer, with their emotions raging, and outfits like the Left-funded, TDS-infested, Kamala-supporting Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism never got it and still don’t.”

Statism and intellectual elitism took a big hit in the election. Count the reasons, such as this listing distributed on social media.

It was the economy…. migrant mess…. inflation spurred by rampant spending…. green energy idiocy…. electric-everything mandates…. Left’s anti-Americanism. Men in women’s sports. Transitioning children.
Threats to the Supreme Court and the filibuster. Lawfare. Government greed. Lasting damage done to a generation of children from repressive lockdowns. Abandonment of merit in favor of identity politics. Foreign policy idiocy, such as the Afghanistan debacle and sending billions to Iran.

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ESG Whistleblower Challenges Climate Narrative (Desiree Fixler in the mix)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 17, 2025

“Is #ESG and climate hysteria also part of this subversion to attack democractic and capitalist principles? Is ESG just a cloak for a socialist grab on corporations to strangle capitalism from within?”

“For anyone thinking there’s a more community spirited version of capitalism through more state intervention, read Animal Farm by George Orwell again. It’s called collectivism, socialism, marxism, ultimately totalitarianism.”

Desiree Fixler (above quotations) is a voice worth listening to. With her courageous out-of-step views being commonsensical, she has an important future in the UK/EU debates over corporate responsibility–and climate change policy in particular. Her large, growing audience attests to her integrity.

“Desiree is a leading expert in the field of sustainable finance and investment banking with over 25 years of experience in innovating and reshaping financial markets,” her bio reads.…