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 14/04/12 DAVID LEGATES, University of Delaware professor of climatology, has written a well-crafted article that offers both a thoughtful response to Canadian arch-environmentalist David Suzuki … and a faith-based (and science-based) call to use Earth’s blessings to improve both our environment and the lives of all people who live here. Using Earth’s blessings to better mankind and planet Rational thought underlies conservative Christian views on climate change and the environment Read the article...  14/04/12 MARITA NOON, executive director of Energy Makes America Great, Inc. analyzes the current panic in the wind power industry that has led to a furious and hilariously inaccurate message war against anyone who speaks against subsidies for wind energy. Where most of us support wind energy but not subsidies for wind energy, the industry's trade groups and paid shills can't tell the difference, so they call us "libertarian free market fundamentalists." Well, DUH, guys, with a name like the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. what do these Left-wing people-hating anti-technology jerks expect? Anyway, here's Marita Noon's knockout article, Wind energy: the wheels are coming off the gravy train. The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the last twenty years is coming to an end, and those promoting the industry are panicking. Perhaps this current wave started when one of wind energy’s most noted supporters, T. Boone Pickens, “Mr. Wind,” in an April 12 interview on MSNBC said, “I’m in the wind business…I lost my ass in the business.” The industry’s fortunes didn’t get any better when on May 4, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote an editorial titled, “Gouged by the wind,” in which they stated: “With natural gases not far from $2 per million BTU, the competitiveness of wind power is highly suspect.” Citing a study on renewable energy mandates, the WSJ says: “The states with mandates paid 31.9% more for electricity than states without them.”  13/05/12 Center for the Defense of Free EnterpriseThe Center is proud to announce its co-sponsorship with the Heartland Institute of the Seventh International Conference on Climate Change. Join us in Chicago, Illinois at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, 720 South Michigan Avenue, May 21-23, 2012. For detailed information on this spectacular event, go here.  11/05/12 RON ARNOLD Beneath the EPA push to stop Pebble Mine
"Follow the money" is good advice for investigating the bottom of the Big Green iceberg. Where does the money start? Nowadays it's not just club membership dues or nature magazine subscriptions, it's wealthy foundations. Beneath the EPA push to stop Pebble Mine  04/05/12 RON ARNOLD Strange bedfellows urge EPA to improperly stop Pebble Mine Randy Ruedrich, chairman of the Alaska Republican Party, blasts Robin Hayes, chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, for trashing the development of the national security asset, the Pebble copper mine. Robin Hayes, chairman of North Carolina's Republican Party, painted a target last month on Alaska's proposed Pebble Mine. In an open letter, he endorsed the Environmental Protection Agency's use of an unprecedented regulatory gimmick to veto the mine in advance, even before its plans are complete -- ostensibly to protect Bristol Bay salmon runs and fishermen. That gush of Big Green rhetoric coming from Hayes is odd. During his five terms in Congress, he had racked up a League of Conservation Voters lifetime green voting score of only 11 percent. His letter sent chills through the state's Republican leaders and outraged major state donors. It also infuriated his Republican National Committee colleague in Alaska, state Chairman Randy Ruedrich.  27/04/12 RON ARNOLD Big Green pushes for EPA power grab to stop Pebble Mine It may sound like a squabble over a copper mine development in Alaska, but it's loaded with disaster for all of us if the EPA stops it with a devastating end-run around proper permit methods. NRDC, the New York City-based green giant ($232.3 million assets in 2010), sent its minions abroad in hopes of destroying America's best strategic mineral reserve, one of the largest known ore bodies of copper on the planet: Alaska's Pebble Mine deposit. The Pebble Partnership (between Anglo American and Northern Dynasty Minerals) has invested more than $400 million to make Pebble -- still in the pre-permit stage -- the most environmentally friendly mine in history. The Partnership will spend several billion dollars and create about 2,000 jobs for mine construction, plus a thousand skilled mining jobs over the life of the mine. No plan has yet been released, which gives the opposition a free hand at make-believe, fear-mongering descriptions of what to expect.
Other environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Defense Fund took a different tack but with the same goal. A press release from the Rainforest Action Network promised the President that if he denied Keystone, he would see a “surge of enthusiasm from the green base that supported you so strongly in the last election.”
Environmental groups clearly understand they have the ability to influence the President’s decisions based on their claims to support—or not support—his bid for a second term. They must be pleased so far with his administration’s efforts. On Wednesday, April 18, leading environmental groups came out with their official endorsement of President Obama—“the earliest” the groups “have ever endorsed in a presidential election cycle.” According to The Hill, “The groups are planning a mix of advertising and on-the-ground work on Obama’s behalf.” However, Glenn Hurowitz, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, thinks the groups should have waited longer before endorsing the President. He believes the early endorsement removes the “greens’ leverage."
Read more...  20/04/12 RON ARNOLD Big Green beach bullies strangling Cape Hatteras families Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society are choking off the lifeblood of communities that depend on North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area. In 2008, the National Park Service -- the federal agency responsible for the popular 70-mile-long world-class sport fishing and tourist destination -- caved in to the two environmental groups' lawsuit claiming human access to the area harms nesting birds. NPS officials signed a consent decree -- locals were not given a choice -- and began closing huge swaths of the recreation area's beaches to motorized traffic for bird protection.  14/04/12 RON ARNOLD Keeping score of mounting global green failuresBenny Peiser's academic resume notes that he's a social anthropologist whose research focuses on "the effects of environmental change and catastrophic events on contemporary thought and societal evolution." However arcane that may sound, many know Peiser only as the pesky director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation who routinely embarrasses man-made climate change diehards with his weekly compilation of green policy flops -- washouts such as Solon, Q-Cells, Solar Millennium and Solarhybrid. These are all once-thriving German solar energy firms that recently filed for bankruptcy, like America's Solyndra. Read more... 14/04/12 PAUL DRIESSEN “Greenbacks” energy boondoggles versus real energy Having had it with $4-per-gallon gasoline and the Obama Administration’s squandering billions of taxpayer dollars on phony “green” energy schemes, angry voters have told their senators “Enough!” Read more... 08/04/12 RON ARNOLD How many incumbents voted themselves a pay raise this year? President Obama bashed Mitt Romney by name this week, in a sign that the presidential race is finally in general election mode. Likewise, as voters begin settling down-ticket primary contests, the race for control of Congress is finally taking shape. The Senate is only four seats away from Republican control, and Democrats are already spending millions to preserve their party's seats. Pundits who track elections hunt for the closest, hardest-fought contests -- those with the most red flags -- to form their judgments. 04/04/12 RON ARNOLD EPA's regulatory shell-game harms Americans' jobs, healthLast week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., lobbed two anti-baloney missiles into the armored underbelly of President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency. 10/01/11 RON ARNOLD Obama’s ‘Save My Job’ bill versus real jobs bills A realistic look by the Center's Executive Director at President Obama's next big failure: spending taxpayer funded millions to buy jobs that will take a year or more to appear. 07/27/11 GUEST EDITORIAL The Sovereignty of the Individual An essay on the origins and contemporary meaning of the Declaration of Independence contributed by Steve Wilmeth, New Mexico rancher. 07/22/2011 RON ARNOLD - Light bulb wars and Big Green's dim bulbs. By now, most of us know that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a measure last week to block the ban on ordinary incandescent light bulbs that's scheduled to begin next year. Odd that a common, inexpensive household item could start a white hot political war, but tea did that once, and last week's vote has become a symbol of American freedom of choice -- and a big election-year issue. read more. |
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