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Ecoterrorism vs. Affordable Energy: Greenpeace’s Hate and Destruction on Trial

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 24, 2017

“The damage to Plaintiffs’ relationships with the capital markets has been substantial, impairing access to financing and increasing their cost of capital and ability to fund future projects at economical rates. Moreover, Plaintiffs incurred substantial expenditures to mitigate the direct impact of the opposition’s slander campaign and the violent protests. These damages — which the Enterprise has widely and proudly reported has cost Plaintiffs “many hundreds of millions of dollars” — were intentionally and maliciously inflicted based upon a relentless campaign of lies and outright mob thuggery. Defendants must be held accountable for these damages, and for substantial punitive damages to deter this illegal means of doing business.” (Case 1:17-cv-00173-CSM Document 1 Filed 08/22/17 Page 10 of 187)

“The Enterprise also launched cyber-attacks against Plaintiffs, and intentionally incited the most violent and unstable actors at their disposal to target company executives, inundating them with death threats, physically menacing the Company’s directors and officers, and publishing personal information about them that put them at imminent risk of harm.

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Common Sense on Climate Change: It’s Official Federal Policy

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 23, 2017

“For proponents of fuel-neutral, consumer friendly, pro-taxpayer energy policy, the new administration has done an excellent job of staying focused and not trying to compromise in a game where compromise is really not possible…. The Trump Administration can only help itself by staying on message, not compromising, and playing offense in the climate science debate.”

“Compared to Rio Treaty George H. W. Bush, as well as “America is addicted to oil” George W. Bush, this Republican is following a free market energy course not seen in modern times.”

The climate-alarmist media can only report on the opposition’s effective strategy and messaging. “The nominees for the Department of Energy’s undersecretary positions are singing the same tune with their views on climate change,” reported a recent feature in ClimateWire, a news publication of Energy and Environment News.…

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Post-Internal Combustion Engine? Doing the UK Math

By Donn Dears -- August 22, 2017

“To actually accomplish replacing all light vehicles in the UK with battery-powered vehicles, while also meeting the requirements of the UK’s Climate Change Act, would require building 39,000 new 2 MW wind turbines, which is nearly 6 times the number of wind turbines built over the last 15 years. The cost would be approximately $165 billion or £131 billion. (More, if offshore wind or solar is built.) This is 90% of the UK budget for its entire health care program, or nearly three times larger than the UK’s defense budget.”

The media went gaga over France’s and the UK’s proposal to eliminate the use of internal combustion engines in automobiles by replacing them with battery-powered vehicles (BEVs).

As it now stands, the global BEV count of two million represents a 0.2 percent market share.…

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New York Times: From Bad to Worse (intellectual polarization in the Age of Trump)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 21, 2017
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Taking a Week Off with Your Kind Permission (back August 21st)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 15, 2017
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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: August 14, 2017

By -- August 14, 2017
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RFF Goes NRDC (“Social Cost of Carbon” Study Ahead)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 11, 2017
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Denmark’s Anti-Wind Problem: Wind News Update

By -- August 9, 2017
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When Obama and Gore Went Oily (politicians like to deceive)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 8, 2017
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Electric Vehicles: “A New Technology”?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 7, 2017
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