Tag: American Wind Energy Association
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Taxpayer Alert:
BIG WIND IS PRESSING CONGRESS FOR YET ANOTHER BAILOUT by Mary Kay Barton, ©2014 (Nov. 26, 2014) — Taxpayers beware! While you were sleeping, enjoying your family and eating turkey, Congress has been busy. Congressional Republicans are negotiating with Senate Democrats to extend the infamous wind energy Production Tax Credit through to 2017, after which…
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END the Wind PTC and Business/Government Cronyism!
NEW YORK STATE AND US WIND POWER IS AN EXPENSIVE, ECOLOGICALLY HARMFUL SCAM by Mary Kay Barton, ©2012 (Dec. 11, 2012) — As the Batavia Daily News observed recently, Invenergy is eagerly waiting for this “Lame Duck” Congress to extend the decades-old federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for industrial wind facilities. Meanwhile, thousands of local tax-…
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Time to Terminate Big Wind Subsidies
AND PROTECT ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES, ENDANGERED SPECIES, JOBS AND HUMAN WELFARE by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (May 9, 2012) — Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed…