The Obama — EPA plan ensures that blackouts will be in our future. Unlike populations in most other parts of the world, we Americans take vital benefits of dependable electricity for granted. We simply plug into an outlet or flip on a switch and fully expect that our lights will go on, our computers will […]
Surprised Solar Customers Find Themselves With Liens
Part 6 of 6 in the series SolarCity Jeff Leeds says installing SolarCity’s panels on the roof of his home in the Northern California city of El Granada was the sorriest day of his life. Agreeing to the company’s 20-year lease was like partnering with the devil, he claims. He says he has endured skyrocketing electric […]
Colorado Legislature Isn’t Waiting For Supreme Court Decision On EPA’s Mercury Rule
TIME’S A WASTIN’: Ahead of the Supreme Court decision on the EPA’s Mercury Rule, the Colorado Legislature is taking matters into it’s own hands. Colorado is not bending easily to the new federal restrictions from Environmental Protection Agency’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), also known as the “Mercury Rule,” which is currently being disputed in […]
Contract Extension Could Leave Landowners Flapping in the Breeze
Critics say a proposed legislative fix violates the spirit of the law against special legislation for corporations and undercuts options for landowners who may rethink their involvement with wind developers. The controversy focuses on the 82-megawatt Black Oak wind farm — on the drawing board in Stearns County since 2008. State law requires that wind energy projects […]
Liberal Obama Law Professor: Obama’s EPA is Burning the Constitution
Laurence Tribe, a liberal Harvard law professor, in fact, he was one of Obama’s law professors, claims that Obama and his EPA is “burning the constitution”. Tribe explains the limitations that the constitution allows to the EPA: “EPA possesses only the authority granted to it by Congress. Its gambit here raises serious questions under the separation […]
EPA’s Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People
It seems that even wood isn’t green or renewable enough anymore. The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method known to mankind and mainstay of rural homes and many of our nation’s poorest residents. The agency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally to […]
Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers
Windmills, solar, tidal — all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the levels demanded by climate activists. Whatever the future holds, it […]