“What proposed groundwater regulation will end up doing is divvying up farm water to new political constituencies such as commercial fishermen, Indian Tribes, environmentalists, tourism real estate developers, and funding for U.C. Davis groundwater studies and basin management. Groundwater regulation will just worsen droughts because there will be more constituencies looking for handouts of free water and not paying for the costs of the imported water system, as farmers do now. For those who say farmers don’t pay full cost for their water, adding a bunch of free-riders will only worsen water subsidization not reduce it.”
Recently, the Washington Post published “Five Myths About California’s Drought” by Richard Howlitt and Jay Lund, two professors at the University of California at Davis as part of its weekly “five myths feature” challenging everything you think you know.…
Continue Reading“The wind industry is in tatters in Germany, being routed out in Spain, and reduced to operating without mandates such as the RET (Renewable Energy Targets) in AU. It is only a short matter of time before the U.S. and Canada begin their unraveling. It is time for the USFWS to demand complete accountability from developers and pressure the Department of Interior for rapid and realistic policies to protect Eagles, not ‘stabilize’ an industry that wobbles with its every assertion.”
Re: Docket No. FWS–R9–MB–2011–0094-0491 (September 4, 2014)
On behalf of the Great Lakes Wind Truth Group, USA and Canada, and NA-PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power), representing more than 350 groups, we vigorously protest any permitting AT ALL, for killing of endangered or at risk species via the U.S.…
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Greed Energy Economics:
The Crazy World of Renewable Energy Targets
The Catch-22 of Energy Storage
The true cost of renewable energy is being masked by government subsidies and bailouts
Wind turbines don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies
New IRS Guidelines for PTC Wind Subsidy Waste More Taxpayer Dollars
House Republicans: End ‘harmful’ wind tax credit…
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