The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is under attack by some of its members for its opposition to the Cap and Trade bill. The Natural Resources Defense Council, through its blogs and through the website whodoesthechamberrepresent.org maintains a running watch on those altruistic companies who have either quit the Chamber or publicly disputed its Climate Change position. To the NRDC, companies that stick with the Chamber’s | Read More »
A soon-to-be released study of the health effects of living near wind turbines challenges the popular image of the graceful, benign windmill gently coaxing free megawatts from the passing zephyrs. Dr. Nina Pierpont, a New York pediatrician, has studied subjects who live near windmills in the U.S., the U.K., Italy, Ireland and Canada for the last five years. She concludes that some, but not all, | Read More »
Here’s an excerpt from a RedState diary written by yr humble correspondent dated January 18, 2009: Wind Energy: How Con-veeeen-ient! T. Boone Pickens’ wind energy plan calls for blanketing the Great Plains [with wind farms], from the Texas Panhandle to the Dakotas. That’s because that’s where the wind resource is best, right? Wrong! That’s because “nobody lives there”, at least from the perspective of the | Read More »
H/T Cooler Heads Digest, The Competitive Enterprise Institute General Electric Corporation has strategically positioned itself to be a prime beneficiary of The New Green Economy, under Obama’s Prime Directive #1. As Timothy Carney points out in a washingtonexaminer.com opinion piece, not only does GE own the manufacturing technologies (high tech batteries and windmills) to benefit from the Big Green Push, it is positioning to make | Read More »
I rarely listen to Bill O’Reilly. In the past the populist positions he’s taken on energy, blaming “Big Oil” manipulation for high gasoline prices, did little more than put his lack of knowledge of the subject on broad public display. But the other day, I noticed that Bill is connecting the dots between Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, and the Obama Administration. As Bill | Read More »
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