Should rural communities be able to limit the number of wind and solar projects in their regions? Or do the renewable companies have a legal right to put turbines and solar panels on any property they can buy? Complicating the issue is the fact that many renewable projects would not be built without billions of…
Tag: wind power
The Truth about Wind Turbines
Robert L. Bradley on bird deaths from windmills: “For decades, the American Wind Energy Association (now part of the American Clean Power Association) has dismissed the “avian mortality problem” as little different than everyday deaths of birds from cats and windows. The Sierra Club echoes this argument in ground-zero wind growth states such as Michigan. “There are two problems…
‘Negligible’ Fishermen Sue to Stop New England Wind Project
The long-planned Vineyard Wind 1 Project, to be located south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket islands off the shore of Massachusetts, has hit turbulence again. In December, an arm of the Texas Public Policy Foundation sued the federal government on grounds that it was wrong to approve the project. The foundation is representing six fishing…
‘Ten Biggest Failures of the Climate Movement in 2021’
Steve Milloy lays them out, writing on Rob Bradley’s free-market energy blog, Master Resource: “So here are the 10 biggest failures of the climate movement in 2021. The only reason the climate movement survives past these flops is because the mainstream media keeps it afloat by failing to honestly report the news.” Among the big…
The Problem with Batteries (Big Batteries)
By H. Sterling Burnett These days we may be distracted by the COVID-19 virus, but climate issues move on. Recently, Wired magazine published an article about big batteries, or more precisely linked battery packs located in enormous battery farms. They will be needed if we want to generate energy from sources that emit no carbon…
Monday’s Links
Banks and investment funds “go green,” signaling their virtue. The terrifying effects of groupthink. HT Matt Ridley. Proposal in Takoma Park, Maryland, would ban all gas stations by 2045. And that’s just part of it.