Tag: wind turbines
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More Misplaced Environmentalist Outrage
GREENS ARE ANGRY THAT INTERIOR MODIFIED A RULE THEY WANTED TO SE TO ATTACK ENERGY AND RANCHING by Greg Walcher, ©2018 (Oct. 10, 2018) — How we long for the good old days! That’s the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about Department of the Interior actions…
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The Double Standards Industry
CONCERNS OVER IMPACTS FROM ENERGY PROJECTS DISAPPEAR WHERE “GREEN” ENERGY IS INVOLVED by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Apr. 16, 2018) — It’s a good thing environmentalists have double standards – or they wouldn’t have any standards at all. Empire State legislators worry that anything above the current 0.0001% methane in Earth’s atmosphere will cause catastrophic climate…
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The Green Empress has No Clothes
“GREEN TOTALITARIANISM” by Viv Forbes, ©2018, carbon-sense.com (Jan. 17, 2018) — During December 2017, Germany’s millions of solar panels received just 10 hours of sunshine; and when solar energy did filter through the clouds, most of the panels were covered in snow. Even committed Green Disciples with a huge Tesla battery in their garage soon…
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Revisiting Wind Turbine Impacts
ERRONEOUS RECENT CALCULATION HIGHLIGHTS NEED TO ASSESS RENEWABLE ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY CLAIMS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Sep. 3, 2017) — It’s amazing, though hardly surprising, how quickly some used Hurricane Harvey’s devastation to claim that fossil fuel emissions are driving catastrophic climate change and weather. Their proffered solution, of course, is to replace those fuels with…
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Diogenes Searching for Honest Policies
RENEWABLE ENERGY IS DEFECTIVE SOLUTION IN SEARCH OF A PROBLEM, MONEY AND POWER by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Mar. 4, 2017) — The Greek philosopher Diogenes reportedly carried an oil lamp during the daytime, the better to help him find an honest man. People everywhere should join Congress and the Trump Administration in search of honest…
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Science Deniers in the Wind Industry
THE HUMAN HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF MANIPULATED MEASUREMENTS by Helen Schwiesow Parker, PhD, LCP, ©2017 (Mar. 2, 2017) — Like the tobacco industry before it, the wind industry has spent decades vehemently denying known harmful consequences associated with its product, while promoting its fraudulent feel-good image. Dismissing or denying the serious health impacts of industrial-scale wind…
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Green Enemies of the Environment
“WHAT IS THE REAL AGENDA?” by Viv Forbes, ©2017, carbon-sense.com (Mar. 1, 2017) — There was a time when true environmentalists strove to protect wild things. Now the green shirts have become enemies of the environment by pushing green energy and demonising the building blocks of life – carbon and carbon dioxide. Wind turbines and…
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Conservation – Not More Control
COLLUSIVE LAWSUITS HELPED CONTROL MORE US LANDS. CONGRESS MUST REPEAL AND REPLACE THE ESA by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jan. 22, 2017) — President Obama’s parting edicts betrayed Israel and commuted prison sentences for terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera and traitor Bradley/Chelsea Manning. Another abused the Antiquities Act yet again, by banning economic use on an additional…
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Smelling Blood in the Political Water
HAVING DESTROYED US COAL INDUSTRY, DEMOCRATS AND ECO ALLIES ARE NOW ATTACKING ALL FOSSIL FUELS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Apr. 24, 2016) — The great white environmentalist sharks smell blood in the water. It’s gushing from mortally wounded US coal companies that the Obama EPA has gutted as sacrifices on the altar of “dangerous manmade…
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Are Wind Turbines Killing Whales?
ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY NAVY SONAR HURTS WHALES, BUT IGNORE IMPACTS OF OFFSHORE WIND FARMS by Paul Driessen and Mark Duchamp, ©2016 (Mar. 3, 2016) — Between January 9 and February 4 this year, 29 sperm whales got stranded and died on English, German and Dutch beaches. Environmentalists and the news media offered multiple explanations – except the…
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Obama’s Deceitful, Unsustainable Energy Decrees pb
WIND AND SOLAR REAP TAXPAYER LOOT, WHILE HYDROCARBON ENERGY, INDUSTRIES AND JOBS GET PUMMELED by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Sep. 7, 2015) — “That’s not the American way. That’s not progress. That’s not innovation. That’s rent-seeking and trying to protect old ways of doing business, and standing in the way of the future.” That wasn’t the…
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America’s Big ‘Green’ Wrecking Machines
POLITICALLY CONNECTED INDUSTRIAL WIND ZEALOTS ARE DESTROYING RURAL AMERICA AND ELECTRICITY MARKETS by Mary Kay Barton, ©2015 (Aug. 19, 2015) — “If you have no conscience, no morals, no aesthetic sensibility, no understanding of free markets; if you hate wildlife, people and the natural landscape; if you loathe private property… then the … wind industry is…
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The Green Mirage – and Con Job
MUSK, SCHMIDT, SIMONS AND BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES BUILD EMPIRE BASED ON CLIMATE AND ENERGY NONSENSE by Paul Driessen and Tom Tamarkin, ©2015 (Jun. 28, 2015) — Elon Musk and his fellow barons of Climate Crisis, Inc. recently got a huge boost from Pope Francis. Musk et al. say fossil fuels are causing unprecedented warming and weather disasters.…
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Wind Energy Myths Spun by Lobbyists and Salesmen
INDUSTRIAL WIND IS A NET LOSER: ECONOMICALLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY, TECHNOLOGICALLY AND CIVILLY by Mary Kay Barton, ©2015 (May 12, 2015) — A recent letter in my local paper by American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) representative Tom Vinson is typical of wind industry sales propaganda. It deserves correction. This is the reality: Industrial wind energy is NET LOSER…
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Tell Congress, “End Wind Energy Tax Giveaways Now”
LAME DUCK CONGRESS COULD VOTE THIS WEEK ON MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR BIG WIND by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Dec. 2, 2014) — There is a good chance that the Lame Duck Congress could vote as early as Wednesday, December 4, on extending huge taxpayer subsidies for Big Wind energy companies for another three, five or more…
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The Gruberization of Environmental Policies
ACCUMULATION OF FRAUDULENT EPA REGULATIONS IMPACTS ENERGY, ECONOMY, JOBS, FAMILIES AND HEALTH by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Nov. 28, 2014) — Call it the Gruberization of America’s energy and environmental policies. Former White House medical consultant Jonathan Gruber pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars before infamously explaining how ObamaCare was enacted. “Lack of transparency is a huge political…
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The Obama War on Pipelines
EXPEDITE WIND AND SOLAR – BUT BLOCK COAL, OIL, GAS, PIPELINES, JOBS AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Nov. 1, 2014) — “This is not the same industry we had 15 years ago,” Natural Gas Supply Association VP Jennifer Fordham said recently. That’s an understatement. The oil, petrochemical and manufacturing industries are also far different…
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It’s Rarely About the Environment Anymore
IT’S ABOUT SLASHING OUR ENERGY USE, FREE ENTERPRISE, JOB CREATION, LIVING STANDARDS AND FREEDOMS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Oct. 25, 2014) — Back in 1970, when I got involved in the first Earth Day and nascent environmental movement, we had real pollution problems. But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned up our air,…
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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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Greener Than “Green”
FRACKING IS FRIENDLY TO PROTECTED SPECIES AND MOSQUITO-DEVOURING BATS by Deroy Murdock, ©2014 (Mar. 7, 2014) — Williamsport, PA — A constant, mild hiss. That was my chief observation when I returned to Anadarko Petroleum’s Landon Pad A, a natural-gas site in Lycoming County, PA. October’s quietude was totally unlike the cyclone of equipment, personnel and activity…