Tag: production tax credit
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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…
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Stop Subsidizing the Slaughter!
TERMINATE BIG WIND’S PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT TO SAVE EAGLES, BATS, WHOOPING CRANES – AND JOBS by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Dec. 17, 2012) — Congress and the White House are struggling to find even one subsidy or entitlement program that they are willing to cut. But the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) insists that the 2.2-cents per…
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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…