Tag: wind turbines
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Destroying Countrysides to Save Earth from a Climate Non-Crisis
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Dec. 24, 2025) — Energy analyst Robert Bryce maintains a database showing that, as of November 2025, local communities have rejected or restricted 595 wind, 475 solar and (more recently) 72 large-scale battery projects. Many don’t want the installations blanketing wildlife habitats, scenic vistas, croplands or their backyard viewsheds; especially when…
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State Courts Should not be Writing US Climate Laws
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Sep. 29, 2024) — Earth’s climate has changed numerous times over the past half-billion years. But activists claim any recent or future changes result from fossil fuel use and agricultural practices. Those activities raise still minuscule levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (0.04, 0.0002 and 0.00003 percent of…
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Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters off our Coasts
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Aug. 25, 2024) — Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was scuba diving beneath it two decades later, the same production platform support structure once again hosted…
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A Pilot Plant for Net Zero
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Jul. 24, 2024) — Both solar and wind energy have fatal flaws – solar stops when the sun goes down or if a cloud blocks the sun; wind fails if the wind is too strong or too weak. But every day we hear of some fantastic…
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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: How Sustainable Rule Took Over Your City
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2024 (Jun. 2, 2024) — Solar and wind farms to eliminate gas and oil; 15 Minute Cities; eliminating single-family homes; eliminating gas-powered cars; stop eating beef; no more warm water showers; ban ice cubes and electric stoves; Sustainable! How did these radical ideas become official policies in our once…
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Make Sure to Keep a Diesel in the Shed
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Apr. 22, 2024) — A Diesel in the Shed. You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills;You can use the warmth of sunshine to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient as you weed your vegie bed;As long as you…
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It’s High Time to Stand Up to Climate Change Bullies
by Tom Harris, ©2024 (Feb. 3, 2024) — What do car manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, coal, oil and natural gas companies, electricity providers, cement companies, bird lovers, everyday consumers and pro-life activists have in common? They are all victims of the irrational and unscientific idea that humanity is causing dangerous climate change by our so-called greenhouse…
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Long Time Passing.
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2022 (Oct. 29, 2022) — Where are the Greens, the environmental groups that were opposing us? You know, Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy[1], Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society, Natural Resource Defense Council, EarthFirst!, Sea Shepherd Society, Wilderness Society, Humane Society of the United States, People for the ethical…
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The Racial Slur Game (RR)
by Roving Reporter, ©2022 (Oct. 7, 2022) — “Peggy Sue Got Married Track 1” (3:28) “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. Today’s guest is Aija Rybinski, the CEO of ‘Let’s Make it Up,’ commonly known as ‘LEMUP.’ Did I pronounce it…
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Ottawa’s Suicidal Climate Plans a Cautionary Tale for Governments Everywhere
by Tom Harris and Dr. Jay Lehr, ©2022 (Apr. 14, 2022) — Politicians leading the City of Ottawa have fallen hook, line and sinker for climate alarmism and, as a consequence, Canada’s national capital is on the verge of a deadly self-induced crisis. This is being brought on by their obsession with “stopping climate change,”…
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Whirling Triffids are now Invading our Seashores
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021 (Dec. 27, 2021) — “I saw them now with a disgust that they had never roused in me before.Horrible alien things which some of us had somehow created,and which the rest of us, in our careless greed, had cultured all over the world.One could not even…
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We May Never Learn the Truth about the Texas Blackout
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 The reasons for the grid collapse are now a matter of intense debate. In the absence of detailed data the debate is mostly over general statistics, which do not establish causality. For example: Frozen wind turbines caused it. A gas shortage caused it. The gas shortage was caused by electrification…
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Wind Turbines Generate Mountains of Waste
BLADE WASTE, OTHER FACTORS PROVE WIND IS NO MORE GREEN THAN SOLAR by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Sep. 26, 2020) — Environmentalists and wind energy opportunists (entrepreneurs who take advantage of overly generous tax credits and multiple other subsidies) want you to believe wind energy is as pure “green” as newly driven snow is white, and…
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The Green Road to Blackouts
“THE SICKLY GREEN TWINS” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Aug. 31, 2020) — To download this article with all illustrations click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/green-blackouts.pdf California leads the way to electricity blackouts, closely followed by South Australia. They both created this problem by taxing, banning, delaying or demolishing reliable coal, nuclear, gas or hydro…
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Aussie Politicians Fight Three Wars at Once – Climate, Covid and China
“UNLOCK THE GATES” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2020 (Jul. 20, 2020) — Australian politicians are trying to maintain their never-ending Climate War on carbon fuels while waging a Lockdown War on the elusive Covid virus and also provoking a Trade War with China, our biggest trading partner. To download this article…
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A Miraculous Turn of Events
MICHAEL MOORE AND DRIESSEN AGREE! WIND, SOLAR AND BIOFUEL ENERGY ARE DEVASTATING PLANET EARTH by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (May 7, 2020) — Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I’d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree with me. But mirabile dictu, his new…
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The Dangerous Winds of Trying to Prevent Climate Change
INCONVENIENT FACTS SHOW WHY WIND ENERGY IS NOT RENEWABLE, SUSTAINABLE OR CLIMATE-FRIENDLY by Duggan Flanakin, ©2019 (Dec. 13, 2019) — Wind turbines continue to be the most controversial of so-called “renewable” energy sources worldwide. But, you say, wind is surely renewable. It blows intermittently, but it’s natural, free, renewable and climate-friendly. That’s certainly what we…
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Buckets of Icy Cold Reality
DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND GREEN NEW DEALERS NEED TO FACE SOME HARD ENERGY FACTS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Sep. 11, 2019) — CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate bore-athon. That climate cataclysms are real and already devastating our planet was not open to discussion. So host Wolf Blitzer and ten Democrat presidential contenders vied to…
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A 2019 Resolution: Honesty in Energy Policy
VIRGINIA WIND PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED IN CLIMATE, SUSTAINABILITY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ARENAS by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek, ©2018 (Dec. 23, 2018) — In this season of New Year resolutions, we should insist that governors, legislators, regulators, activists and their corporate allies resolve to be more honest, especially on climate and renewable energy issues.…
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Does Starbucks Think Virtue Signaling Can “Save the Planet”?
WILL CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENT GREEN-WASHING SAVE EARTH FROM INFLATED OR PHONY ECO SCARES? by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Dec. 3, 2018) — I’d just passed the local Starbucks in Chicago, when my cell phone buzzed to say the Washington, DC City Council had unanimously agreed “in a preliminary vote” to require that 100% of the District’s…