Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Apparently it’s OK because legislators asked kids to draft the bill.
Minnesota Introduces Bold New Climate Change Bill Crafted By Teens
Brian Kahn
Apr 13, 2019, 4:00amEveryone always looks to California for climate action, but don’t sleep on the Midwest. On Thursday, Minnesota legislators introduced a sweeping new bill modelled after Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.
…“This is our future, and we’re actually taking action on it,” Anna Grace Hottinger, a 16 year old sophomore who helped author the bill, told Earther.
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The Minnesota Green New Deal bill represents a much more dramatic step. Introduced by state Representative Frank Hornstein and Senator Scott Dibble along with 17 co-sponsors, the legislation follows the outlines of the Green New Deal resolution introduced at the federal level earlier this year.
The bill requires the state to run on 100 per cent carbon-free energy by 2030 and puts a moratorium on fossil fuel permitting. It also requires commissioners of various state agencies to come up with plans for decarbonisation of different sectors, including transportation and agriculture, as well as divesting the state’s pension system from fossil fuels.
…The bill is ripe with language on how the state can help facilitate a just transition to a clean energy economy, from jobs training to identifying any economic impact the shift could have on electricity rates.
“The Minnesota Green New Deal not only represents a bold agenda toward climate change, but also represents a new style of politics, one that values people over profits,” Tiger Worku, a junior from Minneapolis, said at the press conference announcing the bill on Wednesday
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Read more: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/04/minnesota-introduces-bold-new-climate-change-bill-crafted-by-teens/
I’m not kidding when I say they want to ban home heating, at least for new residences. From the text of the bill;
Sec. 8.
[216B.2427] FOSSIL FUEL FACILITIES; CONSTRUCTION
MORATORIUM.A state agency is prohibited from issuing a permit to construct (1) a facility to transport, store, or process coal, crude oil or its derivative products, propane, or natural gas, or (2) a facility defined in section 216B.2421, subdivision 2, clause (9), pending issuance of the report required under section 11.
Read more: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2836&session=ls91&version=list&session_number=0&session_year=2019
Good luck getting the home solar heating work in the middle of a Minnesotan winter, especially really cold weather like the winter Minnesota just experienced.
But maybe they won’t need home heating. According to Judah Cohen, a climate researcher at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a consulting firm in Massachusetts, “Our winters would be warmer if we weren’t getting these increased polar vortex disruptions.”
Perhaps Minnesotan legislators hope by putting the children in charge and trying really hard to recycle, properly demonstrating their green piety, the polar vortex disruptions will go away, and they will have their warmer winters. Or perhaps they will get back the colder winters they enjoy, rather than the unnatural polar vortex colder winters which cause so much disruption.
I love it when states make insane rules. Drives up my property value.
Downside, I’ve got Yankees and southern Californians moving in around me. Guess I’ll find out what Minnesotans are like. Can’t be as bad.
The worst part of those Yankees and southern Californians moving in around you is that they’ll try to bring those same failed ideas to your local and state governments.
“Our winters would be warmer if we weren’t getting these increased polar vortex disruptions.”
In other words
“Our winters would be warmer if it wasn’t so cold.”
Brilliant, get this person a Nobel Prize.
No carbon fuels, which also bans wood and biomass.
If batteries involved any carbon chemical reactions, wouldn’t that be a “carbon” fuel?
Have you figured out their logic yet? Because I haven’t.
That’s because you are assuming they have logic. Once you realize they don’t it all makes sense that it is nonsensical.
I believe that all of these local type “Zero Carbon” plans are just exporting the electrical generation outside the jurisdiction (along with the jobs). These are all just economic suicide deals. And as the economy collapses, the perpetrators will just blame the very industries that they have destroyed.
We are seeing Atlas Shrugged come to life before our very eyes.
This Bill is good example of what “Bat Sh*t” crazy looks like.
Guano is fuel – carbon fuel!
this will make the poor and the elderly suffer big time, we must stop this bill before it destroys America forever.
Tiger Worku von twitter.com
The latest Tweets from Tiger Worku (@ur momisugly TigerWorku).
I love community organizing and listening to other people’s stories.
What’s not to like with Tiger Worku – a listener, not the chauvinistic type.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Tiger+Worku&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile