The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three 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:
Study: The Levelized Cost of Electricity from Existing Generation Resources
Report: Cost Shifting is the Name of the Game for Wind & Solar
Report: How Resources are Selected and Prices Set in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Disentangling the Renewable Energy Scam
Resources for Making the Case against Carbon Taxes
Why Climate Activists Threaten Endangered Species With Extinction
Excellent Short Video: Proposed Virginia Solar Project
Why the global fossil-fuel phase-out is a fantasy akin to time travel
ACE Rule Massive Improvement over Clean Power Plan
Important Short Video: California Energy Delusion
Very Good Short Video: Thank you AOC!…
Continue Reading“Therefore, we solemnly declare that these United States ought to be free and independent again; that we are absolved from the dictates and bullying of Environmentalist NGOs, their representatives and their funders; and that political obligations to them should be dissolved.”
Many of the colonists’ grievances against King George III resonate today, as tyrannical environmentalists continue to block domestic development of minerals that are critical for our businesses, security, and living standards. To protect our freedoms, we have updated that revered 1776 statement, to highlight and upend the status quo.
A Declaration of Mineral Independence
of and for the People of the United States of America from tyrannical environmentalist organizations,with a goal of full mineral independence by the 250th Anniversary of America’s first Declaration of Independence, July 4, 2026
WE still hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men and Women are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator and protected by our Constitution with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, which require access to the minerals that make modern societies, defense and other technologies, health, and living standards possible.…
Continue Reading“LEEDCo/Icebreaker would do well to abandon its hoped-for permit from the OPSB. The obstacles and problems have been pointed out repeatedly by experts, individuals, birding organizations, ecologists, in consultations, letters, formal legal presentations; enough to fill volumes. Its ten-year-long attempts to capture subsidies while overlooking viable and responsible care for the environment are unsustainable.”
“This proposal has so many indisputable strikes against it,” says Bryan Ralston, president of the Lake Erie Marine Trades Association. “We’re calling for the OPSB to reject it outright. It cannot be justified economically. It will raise, not lower, consumer’s electrical rates. It cannot survive without taxpayer subsidies. It’s an environmental disaster and it will become an industrial size turbine graveyard in the future.”
Over the years, I have followed the aspirations of Lorry Wagner’s LEEDCo wind project—now the Icebreaker Wind project of Fred Olsen Renewables, Inc.…
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