Energy and Environmental Review: May 9, 2022

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Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Wind Power’s ‘Colossal Market Failure’ Threatens Climate Fight
*** Putin ‘colluded’ with green movements
Short video: Renewable Energy — The Biggest Scam We All Fell For
Green Nightmares
Delaying tactics by wind industry will cost consumers hundreds of millions
Video: The Great Renewable Energy Con
Low-cost power pledge is blown away by the wily wind developers

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Analyzing bird population declines due to renewable power sources in California
Offshore wind: The leading birdwatching group doesn’t object to wind farms that will kill birds

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Latest Offshore Wind Project Paid to Switch Off 25% of the Time
Conservation groups call for federal review of offshore wind impact on ecosystems
Right whale defenders question energy industry donations
Jacobs Launches Effort to Prevent Wind Turbines in Great Lakes

Wind Energy — Onshore:
*** Numbers Game: Smashing The Wind & Solar Power Storage Myth With Arithmetic
*** Wind Projects Rejections Across U.S.

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Energy and Environmental Review: April 25, 2022

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Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** It’s time for transparency of the embedded costs of going “green”
*** The Coming Green-Energy Inflation
*** EPA used COVID-19 relief funds for grants promoting green infrastructure
Renewable energy prices soar as Ukraine war is the ‘last straw’ for the sector
North American renewable energy prices skyrocket nearly 30% in one year, threatening corporate and federal net zero ambitions
Report: The Cost of Green Levies

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
We Are Massacring Birds to Slow Climate Change. It’s Got to Stop
Green Energy’s Hidden Eagle Slaughter
Spain’s Wind Industry Slaughters Thousands of Endangered Birds With Impunity
Blood on the blades!

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Energy and Environmental Review: April 11, 2022

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Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
Voice of the people: Windmills are not worth the investment
California’s Sky-High Electricity Prices Bring A Shock To Biden’s EV Dreams
Wind turbine makers selling at a loss and in a ‘self-destructive loop’
FARM Act would halt subsidies for sacrificing farmland to the ‘green energy’ industry

Wind Energy:
*** Russian ‘Dark Money’ Funding ‘Green’ Groups in West
*** NextEra Wind pleads guilty of killing 150 eagles in US and is fined $8+ million
Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States
Renewables: the pandemic of wishful thinking
Battery System Capital Costs, Energy Losses and Aging
By grossly exaggerating eagle population numbers our Government agencies have been lying for green energy
Wind Projects Rejected in California and Ohio

Solar Energy:
*** Push for solar energy risks funding Chinese genocide
US Commerce Dept Inquiry “Imperils” Solar Industry
Ukraine War Drives Up Cost of Wind, Solar Power
Lawsuit filed to stop construction of Delaware solar facility
At Least 40 Communities Have Rejected Big Solar Since 2021

Nuclear Energy:
*** Government in talks to build ‘hundreds’ of mini-nuclear reactors across UK
*** India To Build Nuclear Power Plants In “Fleet Mode” From 2023
*** Boris Johnson goes nuclear: PM plans SEVEN new reactors to boost UK’s energy self-reliance – but drops plans to double the number of wind turbines
*** Britain bets on nuclear power in its plan to boost energy independence
*** Short video: Is Nuclear Power Green?

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Energy and Environmental Review: March 28, 2022

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Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** The New Greenwashing – False Advertising about Green Energy Jobs
*** Sow the Wind (Power), Reap the Whirlwind

Wind Energy — Offshore:
NJ to study environmental impacts of offshore wind projects
Environmental Organization Opposes Lake Erie Wind Project
Wind Turbine Generator Impacts to Marine Vessel Radar
Tsunamis may sink West Coast offshore wind
Indian tribe and conservationists fight California offshore wind turbines

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind project ordered to stop emitting night-time noise, pay neighbors damages
*** Energy reliability is everything
*** No Amount Of Wind And Solar Power Can Ever Provide Energy Independence
Renewable Failure
Iowa’s claimed wind energy percentage is wildly exaggerated
Judge says proposed VA wind project needs further review
More Confirmation of the Infeasibility of a Fully Wind/Solar/Storage Electricity System
Wind Turbines Of Madison County: MidAmerican Energy Prevails In Lawsuit
Leading Environmentalists Now Vigorously Oppose Turbines In German Forests
Local voices quashed in NY wind siting process
The wind projects angering renewable energy fans

Solar Energy:
*** Virginia community tightens solar project rules
Protect NY farmland from solar and wind development
Solar’s dirty secrets: How solar power hurts people and the planet
California’s solar market is now a battery market

Nuclear Energy:
*** Study: Radiation Hormesis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
*** Indiana SMR bill signed into law
*** White House pivots to nuclear energy
What Happened To Nuclear Cruise Ships?

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Energy and Environmental Review: March 14, 2022

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