…if these deals are structured as settlements of claims, they are likely to be much more insulated from judicial interference than mere administrative orders…
Category: wind power
Two Bets On The Future Of Wind Energy: Who Is Right?
My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments.
Save Long Beach Island (LBI) Sues NOAA for Failure to Protect the Migration Corridor of the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale
Lawsuit seeks to compel NOAA to act on a year-old petition to designate the whale’s migration path a “critical habitat” to ensure its survival.
BOEM Offshore Wind Approvals: Radar Risks Identified, Not Resolved
“Congress now has an opportunity—and an obligation—to correct this flawed process by requiring rigorous, upfront, full-footprint review of radar impacts on air safety and national security before any further offshore…
Wyoming has a secret eagle-kill organization
This secrecy must end. Federal agencies working in secret with wind interests, while golden eagles are being killed in large numbers, is not acceptable.
Eco-Friendly’ Energy Slaughtering Wildlife
By Vijay Jayaraj Numerous studies by biologists and ornithologists are unequivocal in expressing rising concern about the slaughter of birds and other creatures by so-called eco-friendly technologies. Many of the…
Trump’s ‘billion-dollar giveaway’ actually a refund to free us from costly offshore wind
In reality, this was a straightforward business transaction: return the lease money, cancel the projects and let the capital flow to energy sources that work.
Half a Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged in Amazon Rainforest Every Year to Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand
Over half a million balsa hardwood trees are being illegally logged in the Amazon rainforest every year to feed the massive demand for wind turbines in many parts of the…
Ed Miliband’s Wind Farms Could Cripple UK ‘Iron Dome’ Anti-Missile Systems and Leave Britain a “Sitting Duck”
Britain is a “sitting duck” for drone attacks, senior defence sources say, because Ed Miliband’s wind farms interfere with radar used by defensive domes.
A Windy Day!
It does not take a genius to work out that when Ed Miliband succeeds in tripling wind power capacity, there will be far too much wind power for the grid…
House hearing on bird killing ignores wind
So while I learned a lot about black vultures and double-crested cormorants, I heard nothing about much-needed legislation to protect birds from being slaughtered by wind turbines. That should be…
Waste from “clean energy” piles up across the U.S.
“Illegal disposal of wind hurts our land and will never be permitted under my watch,” AG Paxton said in a statement. “Just because the radical left calls something a ‘green…
Texas Windpower: Will Negative Pricing Blow Out the Lights? (PTC vs. reliable new capacity)
The disruption of the Texas electrical market by negative wind prices is only going to get worse as more renewable-specific transmission lines are built, and as the frequency of negative…
“What is the … Plan for Gas?”: Even the Guardian has Slammed Mad Miliband’s Latest Green Energy Brainstorm
“… the scariest report out of the energy department … an “emerging risk” of running out of gas supplies by 2030 …”
Save LBI Says Offshore Wind Projects Grossly Underestimate Harm to Marine Mammals, Challenges NOAA to “Prove Us Wrong” with a Focused Monitoring Program
Save Long Beach Island, Inc. (Save LBI), a grassroots organization dedicated to sound energy policies and preserving our shore and ocean environment, has long contended that the high levels of…
The Wind Energy Paradox: “Why More Wind Turbines Don’t Always Mean More Power”
The Munich-based daily Merkur is finally reporting on something that us skeptics have been pointing out some 20 years: Wind turbines always either produce too little or too much, and are thus…
The Severe Ecological Ramifications of Offshore Windfarms in the Atlantic
They presume that a system as complex as the Atlantic continental shelf will behave according to their intentions rather than according to its physics.
How Much Asbestos Do Wind Turbines Contain?
Following discovery of asbestos lift brake pads in Chinese manufactured Aussie turbines, turbine operators are conducting a frantic audit.
Shock New Report Lays Out the Full Scale of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore Wind Turbines
Mass slaughter of bats and raptors is already known, but this new report casts fresh light on the cascading effects on the natural world of increasing numbers of giant wind…