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A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every two± weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
New & Noteworthy re COVID-19:
Latest version: A Summary of Suggestions and Commentary on COVID-19
The drugs and treatments that could stop COVID-19
Report: Pseudo-Science behind the Assault on Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)
The Wuhan Virus Pandemic has Exposed the American Ruling Class
A Protest From France
Congress Creates a Coronavirus Mess
Pandemic Science, Media Panic, and Political Response
Briggs Coronavirus Update XI — Robbing The Cemeteries To Pad Death Totals
The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of a “Universal Lockdown”
Ryan Kemper: The Case For Ending Lockdown
The Paranoid Style in Covid-19 America
Intel details how China deceived the world re COVID-19
The Facts That Prove That Almost Everyone Is Wrong About COVID-19
The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation
New York State and COVID-19:
Coronavirus “hero” Cuomo helped create New York’s disaster
With Legislature idle, Cuomo changed 262 laws in 55 days
Cuomo’s Coronavirus Executive Orders
7 Steps to Recovery & Renewal for NYS
Greed Energy Economics:
Report: “Clean energy” is all about creating unproductive jobs
Study: Federal Energy Subsidies and Support from 2010 to 2019
Doubling Down on Failure
Wind Power: Subsidy after Subsidy As the Infant Never Grows Up
What Engie’s tax equity deal tells us about financing renewables
Fortress Vermont, a Multi-Billion Boondoggle Foisted on the Public
The economics of industrial wind and solar in Iowa
Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Wind turbine noise affects dream sleep and perceived sleep restoration
Bald eagle killed by wind turbine at Ohio wind project
Hopefulness Despite 2.9 Billion Lost Birds
Archive: Industrial Wind Energy’s Inconvenient Radioactivity
Judge rules against wind developer regarding noise
Nuclear Energy:
Indian Point closure during pandemic is wrong, says climate group
US Strategy to Restore Nuclear Energy Leadership
Fusion Energy Gets Ready to Shine—Finally
Natural Gas Energy:
Water Scarcity Lessens As Natural Gas Plants Proliferate
Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Banned by NY As Gas Need Grows
Hydrogen Technology May Turn Gas Green and Fractivists Red with Rage
Offshore Wind Energy:
The Fight Over Wind Power in Lake Erie
NYSERDA Holding Off on Nation’s Largest Offshore Wind Solicitation
Vineyard Wind’s Timeline Slips as Government Further Delays Permits
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Study: Abandoning the Concept of Renewable Energy
Video: Candace Owens Interviews Alex Epstein
China Fires Up Coal Power Plant Construction
Here’s What Negative Oil Prices Really Mean
It’s All Over For Europe’s Green Deal As Merkel’s MEPs Say ‘It’s No Longer Viable’
End the Ethanol Mandate
US energy production exceeded consumption for the first time in 62 years
Book Review: Meeting the Terawatt Challenge
Electricity Is More Than Power; It’s A Fundamental Human Right
Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret
Planet of the Humans Movie:
Excellent full length Michael Moore movie: Planet of the Humans
Michael Moore Documentary Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables
“Planet Of The Humans” Skewers Renewables, Delivers Same Old Anti-Humanism
Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called ‘green’ energy
Moore Rolls Out Movie Destroying A Common Enviro Left Narrative
Moore-backed Doc Tackles ‘False Promises’ of Green Energy
Michael Moore Is Now the Green New Deal’s Worst Enemy
Left-Wing Activists Are Trying to Cancel Michael Moore
Professor Can’t Muzzle Moore Movie; Must Pay Defendants’ Legal Fees
Alex Epstein: The five things Planet of the Humans gets (mostly) right
Short video: Michael Moore Goes Nuclear On Green Energy
Michael Moore pulls the chain on renewable energy
Guardian: Contrarian eco-doc from the Michael Moore stable
Moore Movie Acknowledges Green Energy Is Tommyrot
Green Brownshirts Strike at Michael Moore
Earth Day at 50:
Earth Day at 50: Progress, Not Politics, Cleaned Up America
Earth Day 2020: The Exhaustion of the Climate Left
Earth Day Is Time to Reflect on How Much Enviros Have Gotten Wrong
Half a century later: who got it wrong and who got it right?…
” … legislatively blocking oil imports would also disrupt oil exports from the U.S., which means some producers win and others lose. Trying to untangle ‘good’ imports (such as from Canada and Mexico) from ‘bad’ imports (Saudi Arabia and Russia) is all but futile given the fungibility of oil and trading patterns that can recolor the oil.”
History rhymes regarding the economics and political economy of the U.S. oil market. Today, it is Harold Hamm and the 34-company trade group Domestic Energy Producers’ Alliance (DEPA). Yesterday, it concerned a petition from 12 independent producers about unfair, below-cost oil sales by foreign companies (see “Oil and Those Slippery Anti-Dumping Laws” New York Times, August 5, 1999, reprinted below).
Twenty-one years but the same issue: too much supply relative to demand to drive prices down.…
Continue ReadingFossil fuels would never brag, but they offer more versatility to create modern comforts than probably any other natural resource.
Fossil fuel [technology] … has made this quarantined Earth Day bearable.
– DEPA, “Earth Day; 50 Years of Overlooking Fossil Fuels,” April 22, 2020.
Last week, an Earth Day tribute by the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (DEPA) went largely unnoticed. “Earth Day; 50 Years of Overlooking Fossil Fuels” noted how individuals of the upstream oil and gas industry are directly connected to the wilds of earth (and probably more so than the Washington DC staffers of the major environmental organizations who think that wind turbines and solar panels are environmentally preferable).
The piece highlighted the taken-for-granted goods and services made possible by fossil fuels.
DEPA’s 389-word tribute follows in its entirety.…
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