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Energy and Environmental Review: June 5, 2023

By -- June 5, 2023

Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Renewables (General):
*** In Texas, a Clean-Energy Pioneer, the Tide Turns Against Renewables
*** Alternative Energy Projects Are Bankrupting The Energy Grid
*** Fallacies About Nuclear, Wind, and Solar
Big Wind’s US Renewable Rejection Database tally hits 523
Proposed NY legislative action to stop the “transition” until a fossil fuel replacement is identified

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore wind may not reduce CO2 emissions
Cape Cod to Rhode Island Tourists Expect A Summer Of Whales Washing Up
Cape May County Fights Back Against Offshore Wind Project

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** The True Cost of Energy Generated From Wind Turbines

Solar Energy:
Hidden Impact of Solar Projects: Residents and Wildlife Affected, Aquifers Threatened
How solar projects took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

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Nuclear Energy:
*** Why Small Modular Reactors Herald a Nuclear Energy Renaissance
*** Electricity Prices Plunge By 75% As Finland Opens New Nuclear Power Plant
Virginia’s not the only place exploring small modular nuclear reactors
WTF Happened to Nuclear Energy?

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Nixon’s June 1971 ‘Clean Energy’ Speech

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 2, 2023

June 4, 1971, message to Congress by President Nixon, “A Program to Insure an Adequate Supply of Clean Energy in the Future.” Nixon would later identify this as “the first message on energy policies ever submitted by an American President.”[1]


[1]Office of the President, Executive Energy Documents (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1978), p. 14.

Summarized Alice Buck:

President Richard Nixon presented his original plan for an energy agency in his first energy message to Congress in June 1971. Citing the “brownouts” which had occurred in recent months, the natural gas shortages, increasing fuel prices, and the lack of an integrated national energy policy, the President proposed that all major energy programs be consolidated in a new Department of Natural Resources. Two years later, in June 1973, he again urged Congress to take action on his energy legislation.

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Chris Tomlinson (Houston Chronicle) Confesses Conflict of Interest

By Robert Bradley Jr. --

“(Disclosure: My wife works for a private equity firm that invests in clean energy companies, and they have projects in Texas. But my interest in climate change and energy dates back 30 years, and like most spouses, my wife will tell you she has little influence over my opinions.)” – Tomlinson (below)

It is a start—but only a start. In a recent lobbyist-like editorial for the Houston Chronicle, the climate-religionist, bully-like, cut-the-beef Chris Tomlinson confessed to a conflict-of-interest. But the conflict is more than being married to a person that “works for a private equity firm that invests in clean energy companies”; his wife is a multi-millionaire rainmaker in wind and solar–the very two energies that Chris champions so completely and extensively.

His term “clean energy companies,” moreover, euphemizes the deep nature of wind and solar: government-enabled, cost-inflating, dilute, intermittent energies.…

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U.S. Exit of the Paris Climate Accord: Reasons Reverberate Today

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 1, 2023
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Surging New England Energy Prices: No Surprise

By Steve Goreham -- May 30, 2023
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Memorial Day 2023: Let’s Go!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 26, 2023
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Tomlinson on Texas Electricity: Houston Chronicle Editorialist in the Wrong Paradigm

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 25, 2023
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EVs: Political Pushback (151 Republicans vs. Big Brother)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 24, 2023
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“California’s Duck Curve Hits Record Lows”

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 23, 2023
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Energy and Environmental Review: May 22, 2023

By -- May 22, 2023
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