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Exposing Big Bad Green

By E. Calvin Beisner -- August 21, 2014

“It is good to see that with far less resources, the free-market, pro-consumer, pro-taxpayer, pro-progress, pro-science, pro-realism side is getting to the dark underbelly of the beast. Such transparency will aid lawmakers and the public fully access a raft of public policies that are supposed to be good for the environment but, in fact, are good for bad.”

Three major stories about the Green movement and its ties to major Left-wing foundations and Left-wing journalists have been in the news.

  • MediaTrackers uncovered Gamechanger Salon, a secretive group of over 1,000 Leftwing leaders and activists from organizations like AFL-CIO, Change.org, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, Huffington Post, CNN, MSNBC, ThinkProgress, Media Matters, and such climate-alarm groups as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, US Climate Action Network, shaping news reporting and government policy.
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Industrial Wind Needs Blowback (Siemens ad campaign targeting U.S. taxpayers)

By Mary Kay Barton -- August 20, 2014

“Since Siemens’ tax-sheltering market is drying up in Europe, their marketing efforts in the U.S. are clearly geared towards increasing income for its investors via wind’s tax sheltering schemes here. Taxpayers, consumers take note!”

If you watch much mainstream TV, you’ve probably seen Siemens’ recent  multi-million-dollar advertising blitz  to sell the American public on industrial wind.

As it turns out, the wind business abroad has taken a huge hit of late. European countries have begun slashing renewable mandates due to the ever-broadening realization that renewables cost far more than industrial wind proponents have led everyone to believe — not only economically, but environmentally, technically, and civilly as well.

As reported in the article Siemens onshore, offshore pain: “Siemens’ energy business took a €48m hit in the second quarter related to a bearings issue with onshore turbines and a €23m charge due to ongoing offshore grid issues in Germany.”

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Letter to Auditor General for Ontario from North American Platform Against Windpower

By Sherri Lange -- August 19, 2014

To: Ms. Bonnie Lysyk (Auditor General for Ontario)       (Letter of August 11, 2014)

Dear Ms Lysyk,

Please consider this letter as an urgent formal request for a complete and impartial audit for all matters pertaining to the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009, and its false assertions and negative results for Ontario: these misrepresentations include vigorous job creation, suggested cleaner air space, the ability to create energy facilities, wind and solar, in particular, in a cost savings manner, or competitive manner.

The Green Energy and Green Economy Act has suggested with not a little hyperbole, that it will “spark” growth in “renewables sources in Ontario, while creating savings, and producing 50,000 jobs, direct and indirect,” and “make a positive contribution towards climate change objectives,” whereas in fact the GEA threatens to eviscerate the economy of Ontario and Canada as a whole.

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AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: August 18, 2014

By -- August 18, 2014
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Can CARB and U.C. Handle the Truth About Cap and Trade? A Rebuttal

By -- August 14, 2014
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“Environmental Justice” Injustice (EPA elitism, expoitation)

By James Rust -- August 13, 2014
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Glenn Schleede’s (Polite) Reality Check to an Idealistic DOE Intern

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 12, 2014
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An Unending Production Tax Credit? (IRS pushes Obama energy policy)

By -- August 11, 2014
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Bill Gates on “The Bet” (Julian Simon’s continued march into the mainstream)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 7, 2014
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Energy Efficiency: Two Narratives (market sense versus regulation and political correctness)

By Jim Clarkson -- August 6, 2014
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