This might make you mad. That’s even more reason to read about it.
$1.9 million in environmental justice grants 10th May 2010 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1.9 million in environmental justice grants to 76 non-profit organizations and local governments working on environmental justice issues nationwide. The grant program supports Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priority to expand the conversation on environmentalism and work for environmental justice.
And it isn’t just in the USA, the EPA is giving US taxpayer money to Brazilian programs. Think that’s bad? They are giving money to China too, as if the Chinese need our help.
Project Title: Methane Atlas Energy Gen. in Brazilian Landfills
Grant ID Number: XA – 83604601-0
Recipient Name: Abrelp Associacao Brasileira De Empres De Limp Pub
Award Date: 01/08/2011 Cum Award: $160,000
Project Start: 01/08/2011 Project End: 31/01/2013
To develop a publication, the “Atlas of GHG Emission and Energy Potential by Waste Destination in Brazil.” This will provide up-to-date information on waste management in the country, the types of final waste disposal in each geographic area broken down by state, waste management as a renewable energy resource for Brazil, the potential for GHG emissions reductions, and finally the viable end-use options to be applied in the sector.
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Project Title: Scale-up of Biomass Stoves in Western China
Grant ID Number: XA – 83366201-2
Recipient Name: China Assoc. of Rural Energy Industry
Award Date: 28/04/2010 Cum Award: $230,000
Project Start: 01/08/2007 Project End: 31/01/2011
The China Association of Rural Energy Industry will help 100,000 Chinese adopt cleaner technologies that improve health while protecting the environment (reducing deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions).
Full report here: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/sample_grants.pdf
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So…my tax dollars (and I suspect almost all of Anthony’s readers are taxpayers as well) are going to ‘help’ one in 11,000 Chinese. *This* will save us all… BTW, many here are aware of this, but ‘environmental justice’ = Agenda 21. That story doesn’t turn out well for we little folk.
Bet i know who Lisa P. Jackson will be voting for. Could November 6 be the most important day this century?
Why the outrage? The amounts are peanuts and clean stoves a good idea.
eh…millions?…must mean BILLIONS? And there are quite a few …non-US recipients. Isn’t this a scandal of major proportions? Or a joke?
I would like some “environmental justice” here in the U.S. – for humanity, that is. Getting a little sick of having to think of poor “Mother Earth” when I’m trying to stay warm/cool, drive to work, go to the store, etc.
Environmental Justice — That’s Maurice Strong’s (slight) adjustment of “social justice.” But it’s all the same: far Left Progressive Collectivism.
Grrr it makes me so mad. That money could have bought 1.1875 cruise missiles instead.
Lisa P Jackson does not work for us…
How the heck is all this going to stop? Will it require a revolution? It seems that or we all sit back and allow the end of civilization. I can’t see these people coming to their senses, nor governments trying to stop them, they are so suckered in by this. While people believe it, governments will give backing “just in case there’s something in it” and to be seen to be doing something and win votes.
I know vast numbers of people are waking up – and that’s a joy to see – but when enough wake up, how will governments know without the rioting mobs at the gates? And even then, what do we get but anarchy? Do we have to go down that road? Or will the arrival of the next ice age be the thing to put an end to it?
What a horrible thing to have to hope for, a natural disaster of global proportions to come soon in order to stop this destruction perpetrated by fear of a man-made one.
God, I feel sick by all this.
The problem is the examples quoted here are just the tip of the iceberg; the waste of money spent on the whim projects of the Global Warming Industry is truly staggering.
To paraphrase a great man’s memorable comment, the following clearly applies here:
“Never in the field of human endeavour has so much money and effort been wasted by so many to achieve so little.”
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is so common that it has moved from the surreal to the predictable..
“They are giving money to China too, as if the Chinese need our help.”
So we are borrowing money from China so we can give it back to them in grants? Couldn’t they fund their own projects with the enormous amount of interest we pay them on the debt we already owe them?
Hmmm. I seem to remember that many of you were so incredibly, incredibly concerned about how the poor people of the world will be affected by not having access to cheap energy.
Now coal is cheap of course but in China it brings tears to your eyes. The sulphuric acid aerosols are trying to eat yours eyes out.
So maybe a few measely dollars donated to the poverty stricken Chinese is something you shouldnt be complaining about.
“The China Association of Rural Energy Industry will help 100,000 Chinese adopt cleaner technologies that improve health while protecting the environment (reducing deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions).”
That’s 100,000 out of a population of c 1,317 million.
That’s really going to cut CO2 emissions!
Your kidding right? You’re angry at a grants program that is “designed to help communities understand and address environmental challenges and create self-sustaining, community-based partnerships focused on improving human health and the environment at the local level”?
And you call it “warming money”? Such a grants program would make sense even without the issue of global warming.
In fact, this program seems to support initiatives that you have put into practice at home. On your “About” page you write:
… I consider myself “green” in many ways, and I promote the idea of energy savings and alternate energy generation. I’ve put a 10KW solar array on my home, plus a 125 KW solar array on one of our local schools when I was a school trustee. I’ve retrofitted my home with CFL’s and better insulation, as well as installed timer switches on many of our most commonly used lights. I also drive an electric car for my daily around town routine. I encourage others to do the same when it comes to efficient use of energy and energy conservation.
What have you against the funding of a project that “addresses lead poisoning and asthma in low-income Boston neighborhoods” or “investigates hazardous substances in community water sources.”? (see FY 2011 grant recipients).
Aye, The Global Warming Industry. People with a vested interest in deceiving the public. Our politicians need to be better stewards of the public purse and challenge the pseudoscience advice they’re getting. This is white-collar corruption.
However short the money is there’ll always be a politian who can find ways to spend it.
“They are giving money to China too, as if the Chinese need our help.
Maybe the Chinese figure it’s the best way to make sure they get some of their money back.
And speaking of sustainability… (OK, we weren’t exactly) …there is a limit to OPM (Other Peoples Money). Eventually it runs out.
The Chinese already have “clean” cooker technology. From the Wikipedia Briquette entry:
As pictured, they have numerous axial through holes for ventilation that improve efficiency. There are several types of biomass briquettes made worldwide. Depending on technique and materials, the result can be dry and easily stored for long periods, much like the ubiquitous “charcoal” briquettes for the BBQ, and produce very little smoke.
Of course, being biomass they are “carbon neutral”. And producing briquettes creates jobs.
So once again, follow the money. Kyoto, CDM, carbon credits, numerous financial incentives given to “developing nations” to do what can be both profitable and beneficial on its own merits.
One group promoting biomass briquette production is The Legacy Foundation, a very bland name. Wikipedia doesn’t even have an entry.
Want to review their work, see and evaluate the technology they supply to the needy worldwide? Head to their Products page and cough up $25 to $45 for a construction manual for only one specific model of press, then again for its user manual, and for the briquette making manual, and the briquette theory manual… Package deals available. You might also want the Briquette Marketing Manual for your fledgling third-world business that you have just invested 1-3 years of gross income into researching.
And that’s not hardcopy, only a PDF download. Yup, just a download, bring your own computer, broadband, and printer. But hey, they use PayPal!
Also, of Urgent Interest, the switch must be made to biomass briquettes for cooking instead of the charcoal produced since before recorded history, if the Mountain Gorillas are going to be saved. As reported from the Virunga National Park:
Etc. Stop charcoal production, switch to biomass briquettes, save endangered species like mountain gorillas.
Something worth noting, here’s a comment from that piece showing the level of awareness, and perhaps the mindset, of some of those most worried about the problem:
Could that charcoal possibly be used by the desperately poor local people of that impoverished war-torn country? Of course not, European businesses are killing mountain gorillas to sell BBQ briquettes at supermarkets!
Doesn’t make me mad. America is a welfare state. If they’re not wasting money on this, then it’s something else. It’s all the same to me.
Lisa Jackson: “I love the smell of OPM in the morning”
My goodness, what a waste.
Please, US citizens, vote them out. Once again bring freedom back to the world.
It’s bribe money to get the Brazilians to save some biofuel for the U.S. rather than selling all their surplus to China.
/sarc
Good grief, does their idiocy know no bounds?
Reading this you would think that governments and their agencies are obsessed with global warming and its impact on the environment (perhaps Obama is). However in reality governments appear to be more concerned about the high demand and high price for oil and its effect on economies. Tapping into strategic reserves is being proposed to lessen the impact on gasoline prices to hard pressed motorists. In spite of the global economic downturn oil demand and consumption appear to be at an all time high. Global warmists therefore who would stop fossil fuel consumption or combustion at a stroke appear to be inhabiting a deranged parallel universe.
Anger? Nope. Numbness. This is beyond stupid.