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A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Why some rural communities are fighting back against wind development
Wind turbines delivering next to nothing to grid despite hysteria
Environmental activists ignore energy security realities
Short video: Overcoming Bias in Energy Conversations
The World Bank’s anti-energy policy betrays its core development mission
Wind Projects Worry Federal Meteorologist
Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts
Duke Energy Considering Extending Nuclear Plant Life to 80 years
Study: Wind turbines impact bat activity, leading to high losses of habitat
Study: Gone with the Wind – Wind Development and Raptors
All wind energy avian mortality research and reporting is just deception
Solar panels could be a source of GenX and other perflourinated contaminants
Study: Model falsifiability and climate slow modes
IPCC report deleted uncertainties about human caused climate change
Climate Change, Catastrophe, Regulation and the Social Cost of Carbon
Climate Change Wackos Exposed in California Court
Four Questions on Climate Change
DDP: Ten Key Questions about Climate Change
A Challenge to the American Planning Association (re Sustainability)
Startling New Discovery Could Destroy Global Warming Doomsday Forecasts
Scott Pruitt – Warrior for Science
Crushing the Global Warming Cult at the EPA
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks
Will advances in groundwater science force a paradigm shift in sea level rise attribution?
Peer Review — Why Skepticism is Essential
The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science
Greed Energy Economics:
Wind turbines affect property values
Wind Turbines vs Property Rights
Time for Industrial Wind to pay its fair share of Oklahoma’s education costs
NH energy strategy shifts from subsidizing renewables to lowering rates
Offshore Wind Surge Threatens Merchant Generator Profits
NextEra selling Ontario wind & solar assets
Solar facilities receive more cash from green subsidies than selling the energy they produce
Court Sees if Church Solar Panels Break Electricity Monopoly
NY PSC eyes plan to offer incentives for wind energy companies
U.S. Wind Power Slows Despite Tax Policy Meant to Boost It
Oklahoma wind tax reform pitched despite litigation threat
Turbine Health Matters:
Indiana Town takes aim at wind turbines: approves 38 DBa Noise limit
Calculating absolute minimum safety margins around wind turbines
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
Study: Wind turbines impact bat activity, leading to high losses of habitat use in a biodiversity hotspot
Study: Gone with the Wind – Wind Development and Raptors
All wind energy avian mortality research and reporting is just deception
Solar panels could be a source of GenX and other perflourinated contaminants
VA Solar Facility is Turning a Local River Brown
Decommissioning old turbines becoming a ‘Big New Problem’
How fishermen could thwart Cuomo’s offshore wind master plan
Science’s ‘irreproducibility crisis’ is a public policy crisis too
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Why some rural communities are fighting back against wind development
Wind turbines delivering next to nothing to grid despite hysteria
Environmental activists ignore energy security realities
Short video: Overcoming Bias in Energy Conversations
The World Bank’s anti-energy policy betrays its core development mission
Wind Projects Worry Federal Meteorologist
Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts
Duke Energy Considering Extending Nuclear Plant Life to 80 years
Tennessee legislators pass their first state wind regulation law: HB 1731
Amazon Wind Project interference with military radar remains a concern
Fort Drum JLUS Report (with much about wind energy)
In Sweden, wind turbines and military aircraft battle for airspace
Fracking, BREXIT and an oil and gas shale bonanza
Tomorrow’s Grim, Global, Green Dictatorship
Archive: Research points to serious under-reporting of wind turbine fires
Chautauqua County (NY) says No to Big Wind
Cuomo’s renewable flop continues
Wind industry mogul claims to be giving up on Vermont
Short Video: Energy Images Are Deceiving
Contesting energy transitions: wind power and conflicts in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Sierra Club Likes Offshore Wind – Just Not This New Jersey One
Why NY Ocean Wind Project Decision Will Be Biggest Ever
New York set to become a leading hub for offshore wind?
Green Insanity: Offshore Wind Project Cost Mind-Boggling $10K Per KW
Apple Falsely Claims it Uses ‘100-Percent Renewable’ Energy
Activists’ letter to FERC re gas pipelines — use for wind energy
US Wind Turbine Database (AWEA, LBNL)
The Seriousness of the Hydro One Purchase of Avista
Duke Energy Considering Extending Nuclear Plant Life to 80 years
India slashes plans for new nuclear reactors by two-thirds
NuScale eyes first SMR module by 2020
The World’s First Floating Nuclear Facility
Manmade Global Warming Articles:
Study: Model falsifiability and climate slow modes
IPCC report deleted uncertainties about human caused climate change
Climate Change, Catastrophe, Regulation and the Social Cost of Carbon
Climate Change Wackos Exposed in California Court
Four Questions on Climate Change
DDP: Ten Key Questions about Climate Change
A Challenge to the American Planning Association (re Sustainability)
Startling New Discovery Could Destroy Global Warming Doomsday Forecasts
Scott Pruitt – Warrior for Science
Crushing the Global Warming Cult at the EPA
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks
Will advances in groundwater science force a paradigm shift in sea level rise attribution?
Peer Review — Why Skepticism is Essential
The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science
Please consider signing this petition in support of the EPA’s good work
EPA 2017 Environmental Justice Report (Executive Summary)
EPA Gives North Dakota Power to Regulate CO2 Storage Wells
Interesting Twitter Thread: Roger Pielke, jr. and AGW Alarmists
Swiss Climate Institute Director: “Absurd” To Call CO2 “Pollutant
Top Climate Scientist: CO2 Model Assumptions “Invalid”…”Natural Climatic Variations Dominate”!
Scientist finds a warming error in satellite data, contradicts IPCC models
Which is the Most Accurate Satellite-Derived Temperature Dataset?
A Climate Science Tutorial Prepared for Hon. William Alsup
If California v. BP Implodes via Insufficient Evidence, so can NYC v. BP
EU carbon market emissions rise for first time in 7 years in 2017
Investors stunned over oil producer’s climate-change exemption
Does the Greenhouse Gas CO2 cool the climate?
Who Are the Real Science Deniers? It’s a Given
Archive: How simple physics demolishes the Greenhouse effect
Republicans more persuasive than scientists on climate change
U.S. Republican & Independent Climate Skepticism Spreading
Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part VII U.S. coastal impacts
Attachments area
Preview YouTube video Overcoming bias in conversations — Alex Epstein
Overcoming bias in conversations — Alex Epstein
Preview YouTube video Chautauqua County says No to Big Wind
Chautauqua County says No to Big Wind
Energy And Environmental Newsletter – April 23rd 2018
By John Droz, Jr ~ This is the latest Energy Related newsletter from John Droz. Greed Energy Economics: Wind turbines affect property values Wind Turbines vs Property Rights Time for Industrial Wind to pay its fair share of Oklahoma’s education costs N…