Windaction News Issue: July 6, 2013
By Lisa Linowes -- July 6, 2013Windaction.org’s periodic newsletter keeps readers updated on the latest news in the wind energy industry!
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News
by Alex Kuffner in Providence Journal — Rhode Island
Owner withdraws wind turbine after opposition July 5
by Caleb M. Soptelean in Bigfork Eagle — Montana
Fairhaven Wind suggests shutting one turbine at night July 4
by Peggy Aulisio in South Coast Today — Massachusetts
Rural landscape ruined by wind turbines say locals July 4
by Lucy Barbour in ABC Rural — Australia / New Zealand
Hanover calls technicians from India to fix troubled turbine July 4
by Neal Simpson in The Patriot Ledger — Massachusetts
Our Age of Energy
By Dale Steffes -- July 5, 2013Will future historians characterize the twentieth century as the age of energy? There is much reason to assert the affirmative.
For most of human history, life was miserable. Until the 1900’s, average life expectancy topped out at about 35. There was no such thing as economic growth. Humans subsisted on what they could till, herd, pick from bushes, hunt, or fish.
The world witnessed unbelievable social, economic and geographic growth in the twentieth century. The world has shown remarkable growth in social (population) and economic (wealth) this century. Also it has grown technologically (developed the computer and nuclear power) and geographically (mobility). Our political advances (democratic form of government overcoming communistic form of government) also come about indirectly due to the energy sector.
Why has the world advanced so much this century?…
Continue ReadingDeclaration Against Government Dependence (1776’s relevance for today)
By Richard Ebeling -- July 4, 2013“In inspiring words, the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence insisted that each man should be considered as owning himself, and not be viewed as the property of the state to be manipulated by either king or Parliament.”
The Declaration of Independence, signed by members of the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, is the founding document of the American experiment in free government. Such is well taught, but what is often forgotten is that the Founding Fathers’ Declaration 237 years ago today argued against the heavy, intrusive hand of big government.
In the current era of economic and civil overreach by the U.S. government, dissidents across the political spectrum should invoke the memory of the revolutionary period to call for freedom anew.
For … and Against
What was behind these eloquent words with which the Founding Fathers expressed the basis of their claim for independence from Great Britain in 1776?…
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