Tag: Mary Kay Barton

  • Taxpayers, Beware – of Big Wind’s Latest Deceitful Ad Campaign

    Taxpayers, Beware – of Big Wind’s Latest Deceitful Ad Campaign

    FACING TROUBLE ABROAD, SIEMENS ADS SEEK TO TAP INTO U.S. TAXPAYERS AND WIND WELFARE SYSTEM by Mary Kay Barton, ©2014 (Aug. 25, 2014) — If you watch much mainstream TV, you’ve probably seen Siemens’ new multi-million-dollar advertising blitz  to sell the American public on industrial wind. Why the sudden ad onslaught? The wind business abroad…

  • The New York State Wind Wars

    The New York State Wind Wars

    PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT LETS INVENERGY HIDE THE FACTS AND DESECRATE RURAL AMERICA by Mary Kay Barton, ©2013 (Sep. 19, 2013) — Congress’s last minute extension of the PTC or Production Tax Credit (aka: “Pork To Cronies”) within the December 31, 2012 fiscal cliff deal was good news for Big Wind corporate welfare profiteers, like Michael Polsky’s Invenergy. It…

  • New York’s “Sustainability” Plan: aka “Agenda 21”

    New York’s “Sustainability” Plan: aka “Agenda 21”

    AN INSIDIOUS PLAN TO INSTALL THE “NEW WORLD” STATE-SUPPORTED RELIGION – ENVIRONMENTALISM by Mary Kay Barton, ©2013 (Mar. 7, 2013) — “Agenda 21” was first introduced to the world at the 1992 UN-sponsored “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro. It addresses virtually every facet of human life and describes in great detail how the concept of “sustainable…

  • END the Wind PTC and Business/Government Cronyism!

    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-…

  • New York State’s Money-Road to Nowhere

    IDAs ARE “SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF TAXATION ONTO LOCAL RESIDENTS AND SMALL BUSINESSES” by Mary Kay Barton, ©2012 (Aug. 15, 2012) — Local, state, and federal political favors have created an artificial and unsustainable industry:  industrial wind power. Voters in every state need to understand what is going on in New York, so that the same…