[Editor note: The author, a longtime critic of activist government climate policy, takes on a recent climate plan by the City of Houston. His open letter to Lara Cottingham, Houston Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Houston, follows.]

“Explain how 8 per cent wind and solar will replace 62 per cent reliable energy 24/7. Texas winds may be a bit more steady, but during heat spells, wind activity … falls just when it is needed the most.”

” A logical conclusion is that the city and staff may have an agenda for wishing to ration energy in the city not related to temperature or climate change, or perhaps that they are uninformed of these climate/energy facts.

Houston City government and staff have arbitrarily decided to pledge, figuratively speaking, allegiance to U.N.…

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:

• Climate trillions frittered in the wind
• Study: The Social Cost of Carbon and Carbon Taxes
• Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
• The Confusions of the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax
• Inconvenient Energy Realities
• Infrasound noise guidelines: Antiquated and irrelevant for protecting populations
• Archive: Big Wind’s Dirty Little Secret — Radioactive Waste
• Study: The Impact of Wind Energy on Wildlife and the Environment
• Study: Green Killing Machines, the impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature
• Fact-Check: Fearmongers Over Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
• Tucker Carlson TV segment: the Green New Deal is a Power Play
• 100% Renewable Is 100% Unachievable, Even If You’re An Optimist
• Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable Energy
• Prepare for green blackouts: That’s what’s in store for New York
• Balloon Tests to Simulate Turbine Height
• Battery Storage—An Infinitesimal Part of Electrical Power
• Excellent short video: Climate Apartheid?

“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.…

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: Renewable Energy Mandates are a costly failure

Worldwide Buyer’s Remorse Sets in for Costly Renewable Energy

Solar Energy Threatened by Wind Energy

The true cost of solar (and wind)

Dead bats and how radical Green propaganda relies on tragedy porn

Hypothesis: Radical Greens are the Great Killers of Our Age

Russia’s not-so-secret plan to control the world’s energy

The true feasibility of moving away from fossil fuels

Why 100% renewable energy goals are not practical policies

Battery Foolishness

Short video: False Choice Cafe

Short video: Green Signaling

US Chamber of Commerce: American Energy — Cleaner and Stronger

Natural Gas Is Pulling Away from Renewables; The Gap Has Never Been Wider

Next generation nuclear: 25MW, smaller, safer, can be sited anywhere

Powering the future – with no compromises

Lunacy as the New Orthodoxy

What Will It Take to End Anti-Science Insanity?…