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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:
Wind and Solar Require Massive Subsidies
Renewable energy seeks demand, investment to survive Trump squeeze
Technical Experts: Wind Turbines Pose “Significant Danger” To Environment
Video: Wind Turbine Infrasound
Even ‘clean’ and ‘green’ energy have an environmental impact
Energy development: free market purists vs the state
Two North Texas wind projects cancelled due to military concerns
Magical Wind Power: Illusions versus Reality
Ontario’s new premier must save the province
The BP 2018 Statistical Review, electricity and CO2 emissions
China’s Renewable Energy Growth Isn’t as Good as It Seems
Fearing Climate Change, Experts Say Nuclear Industry Faces Collapse
Successful passage of an important US Nuclear bill
If Nuclear Power Is So Safe, Why Are We So Afraid Of It?…
Continue Reading“If you think that [the strategy of #ExxonKnew] sounds like a threat to free speech, you’re right … [as] activists have admitted ….”
“Their goal from the beginning: use litigation to link energy producers and tobacco companies, according to a summary report that the workshop attendees published.”
“Emails obtained under Freedom of Information requests have also shown that many of the state AGs invited to the March 29, 2016, press conference with Schneiderman and Al Gore actually refused to join the #ExxonKnew campaign, over concerns about its scope and intent.”
“From the very beginning, the #ExxonKnew campaign was orchestrated by the Rockefellers and anti-fossil fuel activists who want oil and natural gas companies to ‘pay’ for climate change.”
Well-devised and generously funded environmental campaigns are nothing new. But from the very beginning, the #ExxonKnew campaign has been different.
“A carbon tax is not simple either, especially when you start talking about how the revenue will be distributed. … Yes, there would be a food fight over the revenue….”
– Antonia Herzog, Natural Resources Defense Council
“I wish I could tell you that Republican offices have approached us and said, ‘Thank you for doing this, we are ready to talk about it’…. [F]rankly Senators Schatz and Whitehouse are two of the more liberal members of the Senate.”
“There is also concern from the left that those conversations [with Republicans] could lead to eradication of EPA authority or at least a moratorium on EPA authority, which leaves some folks nervous….”
– Michael Obetter, Office of Sen. Brian Schatz
“I find these meetings extremely productive and helpful. They have influenced my thinking in how best to go about what I want to accomplish in the House and Senate with the GOP.…
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