The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
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:
Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion
Tourists shun areas hit by wind turbine ‘blight’
Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft
Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints
Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist
Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends
The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)
73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung
Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power
Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism
A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA
Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data
Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong
Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead
Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’
EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates
Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria
Since Russia is in the news, here are some related recent stories not in the mainstream media:
Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups
Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels
Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam
Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New
The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)
Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels
Greed Energy Economics:
Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion
Study: Initiative to Save American Jobs
Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups
The left’s misleading green jobs claims
Wind and Solar: The Special Interest Effect
The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)
California dumps millions of dollars of unusable renewable electricity to other states
World’s First Carbon-Capture Plant: The Worst Investment In Human History
How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA
Few benefit from many govt preferential treatment, everyone pays the price
Renewmaggedon – Solar, Wind Industries Dying as Subsidies Dry Up
Maryland to Prohibit Offshore Wind closer than 24 Miles
Turbine Health Matters:
Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist
Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints
Wind turbine syndrome: infrasound and fury
Wind Turbine Accidents: A Data Mining Study
Wind Turbine Accidents as of June 1, 2017
Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:
Birding groups score win against proposed turbine project
An Environmentalist perspective: Wind Energy Has Vastly Damaged Vermont
Montana doing Bird and Bat Study
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends
Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft
The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)
73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung
Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power
Study: Utility Electric Generation ‘in crisis’ Across US
Federal Govt May Try To Pre-empt State Renewable Energy Policies
A Day in the Life of a State Utility Commissioner
Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels
Some NY Towns Saying NO to Wind Projects
A Quick Guide to Spotting Graphics That Lie
NYS Has a Serious Wind Energy Problem
Court Upholds Connecticut’s Renewable Program
K-12 Teachers are “Educated” about Renewable Energy
Insanity and hypocrisy Down Under
The Nation’s Power Grid and the Broken Window Fallacy
Grid Threat as EV Demand Surge & Consumers misled on Engine Efficiency
The Senate Should Approve Pending FERC Nominees
The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Millennial Problem — and How To Solve It
Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels
Gas Plant to be Built to Augment Renewable Energy
Manmade Global Warming Articles:
Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism
A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA
Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data
Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong
Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead
Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’
EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates
Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria
Why Christians Can’t Believe in Man-Caused Global Warming
Tired of Being Wrong, Climate Alarmists Move Doomsday to Next Century
China Urges The West To Reduce Emissions—While They Burn Coal & Get Rich
Germany is hypocritical regarding climate change
Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam
Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New
Response to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part 1 + Part 2)
Left-wing climate report claims Trump’s policies will kill millions — facts tell a different story
Study Blows Greenhouse Gas Theory Out of the Water
The Crisis of Integrity-Deficient Scientists
How to become a climate skeptic in 5 minutes
Environment: We’re in Era of Mass Extinction — of Reason
Who’s afraid of the big bad climate monster?…
Continue Reading“It may be a decade or more before Falmouth can heal from the divisive battle that raged since 2009. Paying off the $14 million will be a constant reminder. It is unlikely that the residents, the locals, will be quick to trust local and state officials who put ideology and self-serving monetary gain ahead of the health and welfare of others. In that respect, Falmouth is like every other wind project battle we’ve followed.”
After seven years of public hearings, nuisance complaints, state-funded facilitations, dueling noise experts, and several fatal court rulings costing hundreds of thousands, the Town of Falmouth has finally decided to abandon its defense of the town’s two Vestas V82 (1.65 megawatt) turbines.
The last straw came on June 19, 2017, when Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Cornelius J.…
Continue Reading“What is underemphasized or missing in the working paper is consideration of real-world competition as the industry understands it. In other words, rate discounting, surplus capacity, new entry and bypass, alternative fuel competition, and other factors make markets very competitive whatever the market shares of its individual participants.”
“[FERC] never considers the imperfections of regulation itself. It is assumed that regulation is a costless alternative to correct imperfect pipeline markets.”
In a previous life, I worked for an interstate gas transmission company that was rate- and service-regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). During this time, I tried to make a case for deregulation where both entry/exit and rates would not be regulated under cost-based public utility regulation.
Following neoclassical economics, FERC did not consider interstate pipelines “workably competitive.” Using a technical approach instead of a common-sense, real world approach, FERC could not see what those in the business saw on a day-to-day basis: that the pipeline business was very competitive, and discounts from maximum rates proved so.…
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