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Relevance | DateEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: June 17, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- June 17, 2019 2 CommentsThe 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:
The Greens’ Goal has Always Been to Make Renewable Energy Expensive
Combined-Cycle Natural Gas Power Beats Everything Else
The Levelized Cost of Electricity from Existing Generation Resources
Observations on the Alliance for Market Solutions’ ‘conservative’ case for a carbon tax
Economists Have Been “Useful Idiots” for the Green Socialists
Infrasound — a Growing Liability for Wind Energy
Study: Wind turbines kill 75% of nearby buzzards, hawks and kites
Energy solution hinges on better technology
Reforming State Utility Regulations
Farmland Owner (& MD) Encourages People NOT to Lease Wind Turbines
Solar intermittency: upbeat carbon reduction estimates miss the reality
Editorial: Governor Cuomo’s ‘renewable’ fiasco
Why we do nothing to prepare for climate change
Study: Human CO2 Emissions Have Little Effect on Atmospheric CO2
Calling Climate Change ‘Catastrophic’ Isn’t Backed By Science
The Plan is No Plan: Why the GOP Shouldn’t Do Anything on Climate
Climate change has started to influence our language.…
Continue ReadingIndustrial Wind Goes Low in Western New York
By Ginger Schröder -- June 13, 2019 5 CommentsEditor note: Yesterday’s post described media coverage of an application by Invenergy to construct up to one hundred 600-foot-tall wind turbines in three counties in western New York. Today’s post reproduces remarks given at the hearing on this application (subtitles have been added for clarity).
“Invenergy will … cut corners, skirt obligations, bully oppositional viewpoints and do anything they can to cram this project in, all in the name of alleged green energy. The only think green about this project is the money flowing into Invenergy’s pocket in the form of wasteful taxpayer subsidies.”
My name is Ginger Schroder. I and my husband own and reside on a working farm that specializes in heritage and exotic breed poultry in Farmersville New York. My town is a proposed “host” town.
Public Participation Issues
A brief word about public participation. …
Continue ReadingIndustrial Wind Application: A Look at Alle-Catt Wind Farm (340 MW in the wilds for what natural gas could do far better)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 12, 2019 4 Comments“Opposition ranges from concerns about the effects of turbine noise on neighbors, degradation of the quality of life in the area where turbines will be sited, conflicts of interest on the part of elected town officials regarding the project, destruction of forest areas by construction and harm to bats and birds because of the blades.” (“Public Hearings Tuesday on Alle-Catt Wind Farm,” Olean Times Herald, June 7, 2019)
A article this week in the Olean Times Herald is an interesting look at what is going on with industrial wind at the grassroots. Jim Eckstrom reports from western New York where Chicago-based Invenergy proposes to erect up to one hundred 600-foot tall turbines in three western New York counties: Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Wyoming.
After announcing the meeting specifics, Eckstrom lays out the issues in a way that indicates, clearly, that this is a debate that is joined.…
Continue Reading“Enron Ascending: The Forgotten Years” (Book Review)
By John Olson -- June 2, 2019 4 CommentsBradley has tackled a vast and dynamic energy landscape through the big prism of Enron. He was wise to include necessary contexts for 15 chapters of markets and personalities. Navigating FERC deregulation orders over a decade was a fearsome writing task, done well. Pipeline and power plant deals at home and abroad; solar, wind, and other alternative energies, the list goes on. Politics in Austin, Washington, DC, and foreign capitals. Enron was everywhere.
Robert L. Bradley Jr. has written a very important book about Houston’s most controversial company. This is the first of a two-volume corporate biography chronicling the rise, fall, and aftermath of Enron; his tetralogy has already produced a book on worldview (Capitalism at Work: 2009) and prehistory (Edison to Enron: 2011).
Few observers have been as ideally located to chronicle this modern-day version of a Greek tragedy.…
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