“The Project remains as ill-conceived and disastrous for Lake Erie as it was on the date of its conception. The residents continue to fight to protect their interests…. In glaring contrast, Icebreaker is spending millions of dollars… The Board must not abet Icebreaker’s proposed fouling … of Lake Erie.”
– John Stock (attorney), Bratenahl Residents Post Hearing Reply Brief to OPSB Staff and Developers of Icebreaker, November 15, 2019.
For many years I have protested LEEDCo/Icebreaker/Olsen (Icebreaker), the first proposed freshwater offshore wind project in North America. I have covered the different issues of this six-turbine starter project (the organizers have blustered about Lake Erie being the “Saudi Arabia of wind energy with a potential of 1,000 turbines.) As I previously argued:
… Continue ReadingThe reality is is potential harm of an epic scale.
“The major international energy issue should not be climate change. It should be, per Guillermo M. Yeatts, country-by-country privatization of subsurface mineral rights to benefit the mass of surface owners and would-be entrepreneurs.”
He was a true friend of private property, free markets, the rule of law, and goodwill for all. He was a successful entrepreneur in the US and Latin America. He was a thinker and doer, building up an intellectual case for public policy reform and acting on it. And for a lot of us, he was a good friend. In my case, he introduced my work to Latin America.
Guillermo M. Yeatts died a year ago just short of his 81st birthday. Born in Buenos Aires, he studied in America and successively rose in business in the US and in Argentina (see Appendix A).…
Continue Reading“Invited witnesses compar[ed] climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers, racists…. Prof. [Irana] Marinov … heckled me during my testimony.”
“Hopefully my testimony and the testimony of Kevin Dayaratna of The Heritage Foundation, Climatologist Dr. David Legates, and Geologist Gregory Wrightstone, helped educate Prof. Marinov on the realities of climate change.” (Marc Morano, Climate Depot)
In October, Pennsylvania’s House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee held its third hearing debating the science and policy of global climate change. Committee Chairman Daryl Metcalfe called the hearings to evaluate Penn Governor Tom Wolf’s executive order for his state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s (RGGI) cap-and-trade program. (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont currently participate in this power-plant-emission program.)
Some highlights from Marc Morano’s submitted written testimony follow:
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“I am not a scientist, although I do occasionally debate scientists on TV.…
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