AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: December 30, 2013
By John Droz, Jr. -- December 30, 2013The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
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 environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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U.S. Production Tax Credit (PTC)
Democrats push to extend clean energy tax credits as deadline looms
US Senators oppose a PTC extension
Can the American Wind Energy Industry Survive Without the PTC?…
Continue ReadingMasterResource Turns Five
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 26, 2013On December 26, 2008, the free-market energy blog MasterResource began. Some 1,440 posts (from 150 authors) later, we are nearing two million views.
The original idea of MasterResource was to bring a distinguished group of energy experts together to attract a wider audience. The thinking was that a movement website would provide the critical mass to be heard in an increasingly crowded blogosphere.
Here was the original concept as explained in our first blog five years ago today:
… Continue ReadingWe are just getting started here, but some of us veterans of the energy debate from a private property, free-market perspective have teamed together to offer our thoughts on late breaking energy items. When I read my newspapers each day, I have some thoughts that I wish I could share with folks from a historical, worldview perspective.
Fighting AWEA in OH, MI, and DC: Thank You Volunteers for a Great 2013!
By Kevon Martis -- December 23, 2013Thinking back over the past 12 months, it is amazing the things the Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition have accomplished together.
We attended nearly every Energy Forum in the state and brought informed speakers and testimony before the MPSC and MEO.
I was able to present as a formal speaker in Traverse City. We picketed several Energy Forum events and handed out literature across the state and made our “Death Turbine” infamous!
We strengthened our ties with our Ohio brethren, excluding college football:
We picketed the AWEA in Columbus and East Lansing and got great press coverage for our efforts.…
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