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Relevance | DateEx-Im Bank Cronyism: Remember Enron’s Bad Investments
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 18, 2014 2 Comments“Enron was a political colossus with a unique range of rent-seeking and subsidy-receiving operations. Ken Lay’s announced visions for the company—to become the world’s first natural-gas major, then the world’s leading energy company, and, finally, the world’s leading company—relied on more than free-market entrepreneurship. They were premised on employing political means to catch up with, and outdistance, far larger and more-established corporations.
– R. Bradley, “Enron: The Perils of Interventionism,” EconLib, September 3, 2012.
A debate is currently playing out over the future of the Import-Export Bank, which comes up for Congressional reauthorization this September. In “End Corporate Welfare? Start With the Ex-Im Bank,” Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a free-market advocacy group, pin-pricked the notion that small business was the beneficiary of taxpayer-guaranteed loans.…
Continue ReadingAWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 16, 2014
By John Droz, Jr. -- June 16, 2014 1 CommentThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving 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 has 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 MasterResourcefor their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
Canada and Australia form alliance opposed to climate radicalism
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs): A Costly Illusion
117 Organizations Tell Congress to Oppose Extending Expired Wind Subsidies
Former Senator: Wind PTC Should End
Some NNY homes near turbines drop $300k± in value
Spanish Lesson for US: Green Energy Transition Unaffordable
Germany’s Green Jobs Miracle Collapses
The spin on wind, or, an example of BS in the field of energy policy
Fracking Sucks Money From Wind
Hanover turbine still not turning
Turbine Health Matters:
1,600 miscarriages at fur farm near wind turbines
A paper on noise pollution, its health effects, and its associated social inequity
Noise is #1 Quality-of-Life Complaint in NYC
Excellent Radio Program about Wind Turbine Noise
Leading Turbine Noise Scientist: Fired…
Continue ReadingTurbines on Trial: Animal Miscarriages in Denmark (inconvenient fact for wind cronyists?)
By Mark Duchamp -- June 13, 2014 4 Comments“Politicians, and wind industry shills who … deny the risks to health, are now liable to be successfully sued by wind farm victims. And so are governments, as they still refuse to measure infrasound emitted by modern wind turbines.”
In Denmark last month, 1,600 animals were born prematurely at a mink farm. Many had deformities, and most were dead on arrival. The lack of eyeballs was the most common malformation. Veterinarians ruled out food and viruses as possible causes. The only thing different at the farm since last year has been the installation of four large wind turbines only 328 meters away.
The wind farm consists of four 3 MW turbines, VESTAS model V112, reaching out to 140 meters in height at the tip of the blades. When they became operative last fall, a first mishap was reported by the mink farmer at a parliamentary committee on wind farms in January this year.…
‘Energy Independence’: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
By Pierre Desrochers -- June 12, 2014 3 Comments“Unfortunately, at the first sign of political and economic trouble most people are spontaneously inclined to put the brakes on international trade and to increase local production of critical things such as food and energy. This stance often has dire consequences.”
As some apparently inexplicable behaviour illustrates (say, being a die-hard fan of the Chicago Cubs), humans are profoundly territorial creatures. According to evolutionary psychologists, this is because for approximately 90% of their time on this planet, modern humans belonged to small groups that were constantly fighting each other over the possession of land and resources. Deep down, most people’s behaviour is not all that different from that observed on Animal Planet’s Meerkat Manor…
Peace and Open Trade
As recent events in the Ukraine remind us, sometimes the other tribe is still out there to get us.…
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