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Relevance | Date‘America’s Energy Dominance and Manufacturing Revival’ (Trump Remarks, August 13, 2019)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 19, 2019 3 Comments“[The Paris Accord] would have taken away our wealth…. We had to pay money to other countries that are very substantial countries. They wanted to take away your wealth. They didn’t want you to drill. They didn’t want you to frack. They didn’t want you to do steel.”
But what we want now is not independence; we want American energy dominance. Dominance
– President Donald Trump, August 13, 2019
At the construction site of Royal Dutch Shell’s Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in western Pennsylvania last week, President Trump delivered an industrial speech that clearly distinguished his energy exceptionalism, energy dominance, energy optimism theme versus the climate-doom, keep-it-in-the-ground, Green-New-Deal worldview. The backdrop is Beaver County, Pennsylvania where a badly needed, long-awaited manufacturing revival is in process.
Shell Project
Shell’s multi-billion-dollar project will turn low-cost ethane from the Marcellus and Utica basins into polyethylene, a building block for many plastics.…
Continue ReadingJames E. Rogers (1947-2018): Political Capitalist
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 18, 2019 5 CommentsAt 41, [James Rogers] was named CEO of PSI Energy Inc., a small, financially troubled Indiana utility. Breaking ranks with others in the electric-power industry, he supported legislation putting caps on sulfur-dioxide emissions. “Some of my guys thought I was drinking the environmental Kool-Aid,” he said later. “But I said, ‘Let’s shape this, let’s make some money.’”
– James Hagerty, “Jim Rogers, Head of a Coal-Burning Utility, Crusaded Against Global Warming.” Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2018.
“I made money on sulfur [dioxide], and I’ll make money on carbon [dioxide].”
– James Rogers. Quoted in Eric Pooley, “The Smooth-Talking King of Coal–and Climate Change.” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 3, 2010.
James Eugene “Jim” Rogers Jr. (1947–2018) was a notable political capitalist (rent seeker) of the late 20th/early 21st century electricity market.…
Continue ReadingLEEDCo/Icebreaker Offshore Wind Project: More Troubles
By Sherri Lange -- July 3, 2019 21 Comments“LEEDCo/Icebreaker would do well to abandon its hoped-for permit from the OPSB. The obstacles and problems have been pointed out repeatedly by experts, individuals, birding organizations, ecologists, in consultations, letters, formal legal presentations; enough to fill volumes. Its ten-year-long attempts to capture subsidies while overlooking viable and responsible care for the environment are unsustainable.”
“This proposal has so many indisputable strikes against it,” says Bryan Ralston, president of the Lake Erie Marine Trades Association. “We’re calling for the OPSB to reject it outright. It cannot be justified economically. It will raise, not lower, consumer’s electrical rates. It cannot survive without taxpayer subsidies. It’s an environmental disaster and it will become an industrial size turbine graveyard in the future.”
Over the years, I have followed the aspirations of Lorry Wagner’s LEEDCo wind project—now the Icebreaker Wind project of Fred Olsen Renewables, Inc.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & 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.…
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