“The courts must reject the PacifiCorp request that eagle mortality data be kept confidential and hidden from public scrutiny. Moreover, Congress, the news media, environmental groups, and concerned citizens everywhere must demand that the information be released in its entirety…. Every industry must be treated the same under our endangered species, migratory bird, and other laws.”
For decades wind industry research has been using “studies” that are actually designed to hide the harmful impacts of wind turbines. Industry-related studies on health impacts, declining real estate values, whooping crane surveys, golden eagle surveys, turbines preventing climate change, wind turbine energy potential, and, especially, bird and bat mortality, have all been manipulated through fraudulent data collection methodologies.
These data collection methods have enabled the U.S. wind industry to hide 90% or more of turbine avian and bat mortality, in my estimation, from public view.…
Continue Reading“We are dismayed that the recently released Health Canada Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study has ignored the distress of real people by hiding behind meaningless ‘estimated’ noise projections and predictive modeling rather than first making professional clinical observations based on the histories of actual sufferers.
Investigation of anecdotal evidence is the foundation of all medicine. The Health Canada study summary contains no reference to the growing body of research that contradicts the main theme of the summary.”
3 December, 2014
From: Multi-municipal Wind Turbine Working Group
To: The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister; The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health
The Multi-municipal Wind Turbine Working Group is comprised of elected municipal councillors and appointed citizens from parts of Southern Ontario where approximately 30% of industrial wind turbines are concentrated.…
Continue Reading“The formula gives the utility little incentive to reduce operating costs as these are passed through allowing full recovery. As long as the rate of return (rr) is above the cost of debt, the rate base can be inflated by spending more capital than necessary. The rr is almost always well above the cost of debt.”
Regulated utilities, each granted a territorial monopoly by the state, are allowed to recover their cost of doing business and earn a return on invested capital. The so-called revenue requirement is expressed in this formula:
… Continue ReadingRev = Oc + (V-D)rr
Where:
Rev = Revenue justified by cost and return
Oc = Operating cost including depreciation
V = Value, always first costs
D = Depreciation
rr = Rate of return allowed by regulators
(V-D) = Rate base, this is the current book value of assets and the un-recovered part of depreciable assets and other amortized capital.