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Relevance | DateEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: December 12, 2016
By John Droz, Jr. -- December 12, 2016 1 CommentThe 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 Obama administration lawlessly rewards its supporters and punishes its enemies
Renewables Should No Longer Have Grid Priority: E.U. Energy Commissioner
View from the Third World: The World Needs More Energy
House Bill would penalize any wind project within 40 miles of a US military base (HR-6397)
GAO: The Renewable Fuel Standard program is unlikely to meet its targets
Go Big: Eliminate the US Department of Energy
Questions for New DOE Head Person
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste into Diamond Batteries That’ll Last for Thousands of Years
“InvEnergy owes Champaign County (IL) $480,298 in unpaid taxes”
Actual wind energy costs are over 31¢/KWH
NY Households with alternative energy suppliers paid $817 million extra
Effects of Wind Turbine Acoustic Emissions (Schomer: 2015)
Are Wind Turbines Too Close To Communities?…
Continue ReadingShelter Ontario’s Citizens from Industrial-Wind’s Tempest: III
By Sherri Lange -- December 9, 2016 3 CommentsFollowing is the third and final part of a letter adapted from one sent to the Office of Ombudsman of Ontario, on November 28, 2016, by Sherri Lange, CEO North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA-PAW). This part concerns the exploitative character of industrial wind. The first part of this letter was published on Wednesday, December 7, and the second part on Thursday, December 8.
The definition of “exploitation” is “to take advantage of (a person, situation, etc.) especially unethically or unjustly for one’s own ends.” In every sense, the wind industry in Ontario has taken advantage of the Green Energy Act’s pervasive powers to subvert, for its own ends, every protection of our citizens’ health and the environment
Having focused earlier on the health effects of industrial wind, we wish to impress upon you, more briefly, its impacts also on the environment, the economy, communities, property values, and water.…
Continue ReadingShelter Ontario’s Citizens from Industrial-Wind’s Tempest: II
By Sherri Lange -- December 8, 2016 15 CommentsFollowing is the second part of a letter adapted from one sent to the Office of Ombudsman of Ontario, on November 28, 2016, by Sherri Lange, CEO North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA-PAW). This second part concerns the difficulties people have encountered in getting medical professionals to stand up to the political-industrial wind complex. The third part of Lange’s letter will be posted tomorrow.
The Huron County (Ontario) Board of Health has now agreed to a plan to “investigate” or “study” the health impacts of residents, in conjunction with the University of Waterloo and Wind Concerns Ontario. But questions remain about the involvement of several professors from this cooperating university who have not found meaningful results in their research. Their published conclusions have merely led to yet another call for “more study” and a passing condolence to the “annoyance” that persons feel toward the wind projects.…
Continue ReadingShelter Ontario’s Citizens from Industrial-Wind’s Tempest: I
By Sherri Lange -- December 7, 2016 8 CommentsThe following letter has been adapted from one sent to the Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario, on November 28, 2016, by Sherri Lange, CEO North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA-PAW). The second part of the letter will be posted tomorrow and the third part on Friday.
Dear Ombudsman Dube, Deputy Ombudsman Finlay, Mr. Pomerant, and Ms. Driscoll:
Please accept our appreciation for the investigation by your good office into numerous complaints over the years, concerning the health, economic, environmental, and legal/judicial degradation resulting from the proliferation of industrial wind in Ontario.
The North American Platform Against Wind Power represents more than 370 groups and tens of thousands of individuals in a worldwide network, and is in daily contact with its European counterparts, numbering in the thousands of groups. From our perspective, we can see that the problems of industrial wind power are not specific to Ontario, as is suggested by developers; they are universal.…
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