Even the Loony Left understands that the PTC extenders is a bad deal . . .

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I just told the Senate Democrats to not cut any tax cuts that help big businesses, hurt working families, and expand the deficit paving the way for more devastating cuts.
I think you should too! 


http://act.credoaction.com/sign/tax_deal?referring_akid=a168850851.6462683.aoPsS4&source=conf_email

Help knock the wind out of lobbyists. Tell Congress to #EndWindWelfare

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It's that time of year again. Now that our Congressmen think they're safe from electoral consequences, wind industry lobbyists are aggressively pushing to revive their favorite subsidy, the wind production tax credit (PTC).

The PTC is a key part of President Obama and Majority Leader Reid's attack on affordable energy, from natural gas and coal to nuclear power - an attack that will prove costly for hard-working Americans. Our legislators need to know you oppose subsidies for special interests like industrialized wind.

Two more years of these wind subsidies would cost American families over $13.3 billion. If Big Wind gets its way and makes these subsidies permanent, that $13.3 billion will be coming out of your pockets for years to come.

TAXPAYER ALERT: Big Wind Urging Congress for Yet Another Bailout

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TAXPAYER ALERT:  Big Wind Urging Congress for Yet Another Bailout

By Mary Kay Barton 
“Industrial wind can NEVER provide modern reliable, dispatchable, baseload power; has cost far more jobs than it creates; and is destroying the very environment they claim they wish to save.”
Taxpayers beware! While you’ve been busy just trying to make ends meet, wondering why the cost of everything is going up, and how your children and grandchildren will ever pay the mounting $18 TRILLION dollar national debt – the wind industry lobbyists’ group, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), just sent Congress a letter seeking the extension of the federal, taxpayer-funded wind Production Tax Credit (PTC).

The list of signers to AWEA’s letter include rent-seeking industries and ‘green’ groups who’ve all benefitted by tapping into taxpayers’ wallets via the Wind PTC (aka: Pork-To-Cronies). It certainly isn’t hard to figure out why these corporations pay many $Millions of dollars to run national TV advertising campaigns geared at convincing crony-politicians to vote to continue these TAXES on American citizens.

AWEA’a letter is typical of wind industry propaganda – making specious claims about jobs and pollution reduction, without providing a shred of evidence to PROVE any of their claims. It appears AWEA is hoping that Congressional officials are “too stupid” to understand what energy-literate citizens nationwide know:  Industrial wind can NEVER provide modern reliable, dispatchable, baseload power; has cost far more jobs than it creates; and is destroying the very environment they claim they wish to save.

The reality: After 22+ years of picking U.S. taxpayers’ and ratepayers’ pockets, industrial wind has NOT significantly reduced CO2 emissions, nor has it shuttered any conventional power plants – anywhere. The $Trillions spent on these “green” boondoggles to date however, have significantly added to the $18+ TRILLION dollar debt that our children and grandchildren will have to bear.

AWEA’s own statements of years and decades past can be used against them. Thirty-one years ago, a study coauthored by AWEA stated:
The private sector can be expected to develop improved solar and wind technologies which will begin to become competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D. [1]
Our government should NOT be in the business of picking and choosing the winners and losers in the energy marketplace – while assaulting the very citizens they are forcing to pay for this ‘green’ energy scam. It’s time for government to get out of the way and let the markets work!  The best solutions will rise to the top of their own accord because they will provide modern power at the best prices – which will assure maintaining the reliable, affordable power that has made America great.

Citizens nation-wide have woken up to this massive ‘green’ energy scam, and many have sent letters to Congress (like the one below). 

You can join the fight by contacting your representatives and urging them to do the right thing – Protect American consumers, taxpayers and ratepayers – END Wind Welfare (#EndWindWelfare)!

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[1]  American Wind Energy Association, et al. (1983) Quoted in Renewable Energy Industry, Joint Hearing before the Subcommittees of the Committee on Energy and Commerce et al., House of Representatives, 98th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1983), p. 52.


New York State Citizens' Letter:


Citizens’ Plea - DO NOT REINSTATE

                  the Wind Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC)


Dear New York State Representatives:


We, the undersigned, join millions of U.S. taxpayers & ratepayers nationwide in urging you and your colleagues to eliminate the 22-year old wind Production Tax Credit (PTC).


You should know by now that wind energy is a NET technical, economic and environmental loser.  Why would we want to waste $Billions more of taxpayers’ hard-earned money on a net loser? 


The addition of industrial wind in the U.S. has not reduced our need to maintain and build reliable generation, nor does it add materially to our job force. Because wind energy is so diffuse, unreliable and volatile, it can never supply the firm capacity modern power demands, but instead creates unprecedented industrial sprawl - responsible for massive Habitat Fragmentation (cited as the main reason for species decline), devastated civility in targeted townships, and lost rural heritage as landscapes are forever-changed.


Renewable energy tax policy has also fostered a generation of developers bent on sticking turbines on every free acre that has transmission access, no matter who is in the way. It is simply unconscionable that, to date, no U.S. elected official has called for appropriate health studies to be done to protect the health, safety, and welfare of U.S. citizens who are suffering as a result of ending up stuck within the sprawling footprints of industrial wind factories. As a result, it’s no surprise that more than twelve active lawsuits are pending against wind projects in as many states, with many more sure to follow.


The issues surrounding wind power expansion also impact energy prices and disrupt otherwise functional markets.  The PTC provides project owners with a significant out-of-market revenue source[1], which invokes predatory pricing practices that unfairly harm the economics of reliable generators. There is no justification for a government program that manipulates otherwise healthy, competitive businesses.


After 22-years of tax credits, the business of big wind is not about energy production. It’s about tax avoidance. Warren Buffet recently reminded us that wind investment makes no sense without the handouts from taxpayers. Wind energy will never be competitive with the price of the fuel it saves, and would not exist but for the PTC.

  

After more than two decades, the wind industry is well situated to stand on its own without the PTC. It is unreasonable to continue to force taxpayers to support it. Your constituents know it, and you should, too.  

This is why we respectfully request that Congress resist any temptation to reinstate the expired PTC or associated investment tax credit (ITC).

Respectfully submitted,


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[1] At 2.3¢/kWh, the subsidy's pre-tax value (3.5¢/kWh) equals, or exceeds the wholesale price of power in much of the country.

Article Link:  https://www.masterresource.org/american-wind-energy-association/33152/

Big Wind Payoffs ARE ‘Taxpayer Money’

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Big Wind Payoffs ARE ‘Taxpayer Money’
 
New York State taxpayers and ratepayers in the GLOW (Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, & Wyoming Counties) region need to be made aware of incorrect assertions made by Orangeville Supervisor, Susan May, in her recent letter - especially since Orleans County is now being targeted by Big Wind developers. 
 
Ms. May was absolutely WRONG when she stated that recent projects completed by Invenergy in Orangeville were “done without taxpayer money."  Any payments the Town of Orangeville receives from Invenergy are a pittance of the recycled taxpayer and ratepayer dollars that Big Wind has first picked from the pockets of all U.S. taxpayers and New York State ratepayers.
 
The ONLY reason that Invenergy's 58-turbine project in Orangeville was built at all was because the federal Wind Production TAX Credit (PTC) - a TAX that ALL U.S. taxpayers are forced to pay ($.023 per kilowatt-hour) - was added as pork to the Fiscal Cliff Deal in the wee hours of the morning, December 31, 2012.  Without the PTC, Invenergy would NOT have built the Orangeville project. (See: http://www.masterresource.org/2013/09/new-york-wind-wars/)
 
In fact, generous subsidies and incentives are what enable the industrial wind industry to exist, as they make up as much as 80% of the cost of these projects. Thus, it’s certainly not hard to figure out why Big Energy corporations pay many $Millions of dollars to run national TV advertising campaigns geared at convincing crony-politicians to vote to continue these TAXES on American citizens. (See: http://www.masterresource.org/2014/08/siemens-ad-us-taxpayers/)
 
Industrial Wind is part and parcel of the UN’s Agenda 21 scheme, and is nothing but a transfer of our wealth, to rich, multi-national corporations – many of whom have NOT paid any taxes in the U.S. in years (ie: GE, FPL, etc).  As Warren Buffett candidly admitted, “We get tax credits if we build lots of windfarms.  That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”
 
The driving force behind the existence of the wind industry are their claims that wind will significantly reduce CO2 and thereby stop Global Warming.  Again, reality tells a different story. 
 
30+ years into enabling the wind industry to exist, and there’s been Over $1.7 Trillion Spent, and ZERO CO2 abated (and that cost does NOT include all the civil and environmental devastation caused by sprawling wind factories).  Aptly stated by Manhattan Institute scholar, Robert Bryce, “Wind turbines are Climate-Change Scarecrows.”
 
FACT: Industrial wind cannot replace our reliable, dispatchable baseload generators because wind has virtually NO firm capacity (specified amounts of power on demand).  Thus, wind needs constant "shadow capacity" from our reliable, conventional generators – a redundancy which Big Wind CEO, Patrick Jenevein admitted “turns ratepayers and taxpayers into double-payers for the same product.”
 
ONE single 450 MW gas-fired combined cycle generating unit located at New York City -- where the power is needed in New York State -- operating at only 60% capacity factor, would provide MORE electricity than all of New York State’s wind factories combined, at about 1/4 of the capital costs – WITHOUT all the negative civil, economic, environmental, human health, and property value impacts that sprawling wind factories and all the transmission lines that must be added to New York City create.
 
Wasting money on the volatile, unreliability of wind has contributed to New York State earning the dubious distinction of having some of the highest electricity rates in the United States – a whopping 53% above the national average, which ultimately hurts the poor the most.  A NYS resident using 6,500 kWh of electricity annually will pay about $400 more per year for their electricity than if our electricity prices were at the national average. That’s over $3.2 BILLION dollars New York State residents will not be able to spend in the rest of the economy.
 
It is our children and grandchildren who will be saddled with the $Trillions of dollars the ‘green’ scam has piled onto our national debt – all while Big Wind destroys the very environment, and the townships, which they claim they wish to save. 
 
Consider this stunning contrast on display in Wyoming County and ask yourself -- Who will our children and grandchildren remember most fondly:
 
~ William Pryor Letchworth - a man with the foresight, wisdom and love for his fellow man to leave us the legacy of the natural beauty of Letchworth State Park - “The Grand Canyon of the East,” on the east side of the Warsaw Valley; 
 
OR… 
 
~ Elected officials – short-sighted men and women who threw their neighbors and the natural beauty of Wyoming County under the bus and industrialized five towns on the west side of the Warsaw Valley with useless wind turbines – a major contributor to the $multi-Trillion-dollar national debt?
 
Mary Kay Barton
 
 

BATR RealPolitik Newsletter - Another Green Energy Fraud - November 20, 2014

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SunEdison, TerraForm to Acquire First Wind for $2.4 Billion

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SunEdison Inc. (SUNE) and its power-plant holding company, TerraForm Power Inc. (TERP), agreed to buy closely held First Wind Holdings Inc. for $2.4 billion, expanding the types of renewable-energy projects it can develop.

The acquisition will give Maryland Heights, Missouri-based SunEdison a foothold in the U.S. wind market, the company said in a statement today. SunEdison now expects to install as much as 2.3 gigawatts of capacity next year, up from a range of 1.6 gigawatts to 1.8 gigawatts.

The addition of First Wind, based in Boston, is “transformative,” accellerating the companies’ “engine” for renewable project development, Ahmad Chatila, president and chief executive officer of SunEdison, said in an interview.

“The reason why we’re doing it is really it doubles our served available market,” Chatila said. “Now we have combined with the best team in wind.”

SunEdison, which won’t change its name to reflect the new strategy, hopes to capitalize on the growth opportunities in the global wind energy market. Wind power in the U.S., where First Wind’s project development has been located, is expected to grow 15 percent next year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts.

SunEdison’s shares rose as much as 6 percent in after-market trading.

The purchase, which is expected to close in the first quarter, will consist of a $1.9 billion upfront payment and $510 million dependent on First Wind completing backlog projects.

’Packaging Electrons’

TerraForm will add 521 megawatts of First Wind projects to its portfolio under the deal, with 1.6 gigawatts of projects expected to be developed by SunEdison and dropped down into TerraForm in 2016 and 2017, the companies said in the statement.

The transaction “checks all the boxes,” TerraForm Chief Executive Officer Carlos Domenech said in an interview. “What First Wind does for TerraForm is very much what SunEdison does on the solar side performing as a sponsor.”

TerraForm will add 4.6 gigawatts of installs between wind and solar by the end of 2017 after the deal, including the 3.1 gigawatts already planned with SunEdison.

“We are in the business of packaging electrons into long-term contracts,” Domenech said. “Wind is a great asset class and we see tremendous growth potential. For us this is a logical expansion into renewables.”

The company expects to look into acquiring other types of renewable energy projects, Domenech said, and is considering hydroelectric power, hybrid power systems and residential, commercial and industrial solar power assets.

Yieldco

TerraForm is a yieldco that went public in July. Yieldcos are an increasingly popular way to hold renewable energy assets. They let developers raise capital at lower costs by selling completed projects to their yieldcos and using the proceeds to fund new projects.

The purchase of First Wind is expected to be immediately accretive to TerraForm Power, delivering $72.5 million in unlevered cash available for distribution next year, according to the statement.

TerraForm raised its 2015 distribution guidance to $214 million and its dividend guidance to $1.30 a share, up 44 percent from its current 90-cent rate.

Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch acted as lead financial advisor to TerraForm in connection with the First Wind acquisition and lead structuring agent on the drop down warehouse credit facility. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. acted as exclusive financial advisor to First Wind.

To contact the reporter on this story: Tina Davis in New York at tinadavis@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.net Iain Wilson, Keith Gosman

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SunEdison, TerraForm to buy First Wind for $2.4 billion

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Solar company SunEdison Inc. and unit TerraForm Power Inc. said they would buy First Wind for $2.4 billion to enter the U.S. wind power market.

SunEdison’s shares rose 6.6 percent to $17.70, while TerraForm shares rose 1.2 percent to $26.15 in after-market trading.

The deal comprises $1.9 billion in upfront payment and $510 million in earn-outs, the companies said.

Boston-based First Wind is operating or building renewable energy projects in the Northeast, the West and Hawaii, with a combined capacity of nearly 1,300 megawatts — enough to power more than 425,000 homes each year.

First Wind has been a major player in developing wind farms in Maine, with sites active and planned across northern, western and eastern Maine. It is a frequent target for environmentalists and regulators, and counts among its top executives a former high-ranking Baldacci administration official, Kurt Adams, who now sits on the University of Maine board of trustees.

The company is involved in at least six wind power projects in Maine.

SunEdison raised its 2015 installation forecast to 2.1-2.3 gigawatts from 1.6-1.8 gigawatts . TerraForm increased its 2015 dividend forecast to $1.30 per share from 90 cents.

TerraForm was created by SunEdison to own and operate its solar power plants. TerraForm went public in July.

The deal is expected to close during the first quarter of 2015, the companies said.

SunEdison’s share in the total consideration consists of an upfront payment of $1 billion and the earn-out portion.

TerraForm Power will acquire First Wind’s operating portfolio for an enterprise value of $862 million.

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Wind Turbines Declarded "HUMAN HEALTH HAZARD"

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Duke Energy’s Shirley wind turbines declared a "HUMAN HEALTH HAZARD"

filed:  October 16, 2014 • Press releases, Wisconsin

Credit:  Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Energy, October 16, 2014, bccrwe.com ~~

DENMARK, WISCONSIN – At the October 14, 2014 Brown County Board of Health meeting, a motion was unanimously approved declaring the Shirley Wind turbines a “Human Health Hazard”. The text of the unanimously approved motion reads:

“To declare the Industrial Wind Turbines at Shirley Wind Project in the Town of Glenmore, Brown County, WI, a Human Health Hazard for all people (residents, workers, visitors, and sensitive passersby) who are exposed to Infrasound/Low Frequency Noise and other emissions potentially harmful to human health.”

We applaud the integrity of the Brown County Board of Health in the work they have done to carry out their mission to ‘promote individual and community health’. They have been deeply involved in trying to resolve the public health crisis that has existed in the Town of Glenmore since Emerging Energies of Wisconsin built the industrial wind project there in 2010. The project has been sold twice since its construction and is now owned by the renewables arm of Duke Energy, with Wisconsin Public Service purchasing the electricity.

Since the erection of the 8 turbines in Glenmore, among the largest in the United States at just under 500 feet tall, three families have vacated the homes they still own and complaints involving over 75 people in the project area have been filed with the Brown County Board of Health (including affidavits representing over 50 people that have been submitted to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin). The root of the complaints and the home abandonments are the conditions created by Shirley Wind, allege the residents.

The declaration of Duke’s Shirley wind turbines as “Human Health Hazards” follow a year long study linking the signature of inaudible low frequency noise (created by the passing of the massive turbine blades past their supporting towers) to the homes that have been abandoned and to the homes where people continue to suffer. The Board of Health was asked to look at the study’s raw data, the evidence linking the sound data to the wind turbines, peer-reviewed medical research and the complaints of the people living in the conditions around Duke’s Shirley Wind project. They looked at the facts, they listened to the residents, they studied the medical literature, and then made the connection between Shirley Wind’s operations and the suffering in Glenmore – declaring the wind turbines a “Human Health Hazard”.

The Brown County Board of Health, the Brown County Human Services Committee, and the Brown County Board of Supervisors have all taken action on the wind turbine issue over the past four years. When resolutions have been sent to the State of Wisconsin to conduct the studies that their own PSC-funded testing called for, nothing was done. When emergency relocation aide was requested for those families forced from or suffering in their homes, the request was ignored. When they endorsed the ‘Wisconsin Citizens Safe Wind Siting Guidelines’ which includes science-based protections from low frequency noise, they were summarily dismissed. Brown County has now recognized this as a public health issue caused by the operation of Duke’s Shirley Wind.

The State of Wisconsin has stripped the right of towns and counties to responsibly site wind turbines in their own communities and have created state-wide siting rules with little protection for families forced to live in wind projects. The State refuses to recognize the health impacts around its existing wind turbine installations and draft better protections for future projects. By ignoring these impacts, they are dooming more communities to the same fate as the Town of Glenmore.

Media Contact:
Steve Deslauriers
PO Box 703
Denmark WI 54208
(920) 785-1837
www.BCCRWE.com
info@BCCRWE.com

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2014/10/16/duke-energys-shirley-wind-turbines-declared-a-human-health-hazard/

Sierra Club and Sierra Club Foundation Accused of Tax Law Violations

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Sierra Club and Sierra Club Foundation Accused of Tax Law Violations
 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –


E&E Legal Files Referral With IRS Regarding Sierra Club and Sierra Club Foundation Tax Law Violations

INDUSTRIAL WIND NEEDS BLOWBACK (Siemens ad campaign targeting U.S. taxpayers)

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Industrial Wind Needs Blowback (Siemens ad campaign targeting U.S. taxpayers)

by Mary Kay Barton
August 20, 2014

“Since Siemens’ tax-sheltering market is drying up in Europe, their marketing efforts in the U.S. are clearly geared towards increasing income for its investors via wind’s tax sheltering schemes here. Taxpayers, consumers take note!”
If you watch much mainstream TV, you’ve probably seen Siemens’ recent  multi-million-dollar advertising blitz  to sell the American public on industrial wind.

As it turns out, the wind business abroad has taken a huge hit of late. European countries have begun slashing renewable mandates due to the ever-broadening realization that renewables cost far more than industrial wind proponents have led everyone to believe — not only economically, but environmentally, technically, and civilly as well.

As reported in the article Siemens onshore, offshore pain: “Siemens’ energy business took a €48m hit in the second quarter related to a bearings issue with onshore turbines and a €23m charge due to ongoing offshore grid issues in Germany.”

Since Siemens’ tax-sheltering market is drying up in Europe, their marketing efforts in the U.S. are clearly geared towards increasing income for its investors via wind’s tax sheltering schemes here. Taxpayers, ratepayers beware!

As a company who stands to profit handsomely by it, Siemens ad campaign is obviously part of an overall pitch to urge Congress to extend the very lucrative wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), or more accurately, the “Pork-To-Cronies” bill.

As Warren Buffett recently admitted, “We get tax credits if we build lots of windfarms.  That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”

President Obama claims he wants to “close corporate loopholes,” while his policies (i.e.: the PTC) continue to funnel $Billions of taxpayer dollars to his wealthy corporate insiders – all while the unconscionable debt we are leaving for our children and grandchildren continues to mount.

IRS’s End-run Around Legislation

Increasing public awareness of the scam that wind energy really is has led to increased opposition to extending any more corporate welfare to Big Wind via the PTC and ITC. Enter another bureaucratic end-run around legislation by this Administration.

As recently reported by the WSJ, the IRS has relaxed the definition of “commence construction” to the point where the definition bears no resemblance to the actual words.  Curtis G. Wilson of the IRS admitted at a hearing by the House Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements subcommittee (chaired by Congressman James Lankford (R-OK)) last October, that developers can game the system to the point where projects built years from now could still meet the eligibility requirements.

U.S. taxpayers and ratepayers are doomed when, instead of allowing the markets to work, crony-Corruptocrats are picking the winners and losers in the energy marketplace using such nefarious tactics.

Things Wind Advertisements Won’t Tell You

Sadly, most people don’t even know the difference between energy and power. This reality has laid the framework for the biggest SWINDLE to ever be perpetrated on citizens worldwide.  Many well-intended people have bought in on the alarmists’ theory that “We have to do something” in order to stop “Global Warming” – Enter, the wind industry sales department.

Siemens needs to convince the 80% of U.S. citizens who live in suburbia that industrial wind factories are “environmentally-friendly,” and that everyone loves them. Thus, as usual for these disingenuous ad campaigns, a sprawling wind factory is pictured amongst green fields, with no homes anywhere to be seen, while a happy Iowa leaseholder smiles and says she loves wind.

Taking a drive out Route 20A in Wyoming County of western New York State, however, tells a far different story.  The western side of Wyoming County – which used to be some of the most beautiful countryside in New York State, has been industrialized with 308 giant, 430 foot-tall towers, and their 11-ton, bird-chopping blades spinning overhead, only hundreds of feet from peoples’ homes and roadways. There’s no doubt that Siemens won’t be showing you this reality in any of their TV ads!

Unfortunately for the residents of the Wyoming County town of Orangeville, NY, greed at the top in Washington, DC determined their fate. The sole reason Invenergy went ahead with their plans to build their 58-turbine project in Orangeville was that the PTC was added as pork for those sucking at the teat of wind welfare in the wee hours of the morning, 1/1/13.

Ever appreciative for the handouts, Ukrainian Michael Polsky – the owner of Invenergy, rewarded President Obama by holding a $35,000 a plate fundraiser at his mansion in Chicago. President Obama is so committed to Big Wind that he’s even legalized 30-Year EAGLE KILL Permits just for the wind industry.

There you have it – corporate cronyism in all its glory, with bird murder as their crowning glory.

Word of impending lawsuits linger in Orangeville. It remains to be seen if disenchanted leaseholders will end up suing Big Wind, as others have.  In the meantime, we’re hoping we don’t have any more 11-ton blade breaks that throw shrapnel for thousands of feet, or airplanes crashing into wind turbines during fog, as occurred in South Dakota earlier this year, killing all four on board.  (Bet you won’t be seeing any of these facts on Siemens’ ads either.)

Elected Officials: Energy Literacy, Please
What’s most frustrating when attempting any kind of correspondence regarding these energy issues with many elected officials, is the kind of response I received from New York State Senator Schumer when I wrote him a letter about ending the Wind PTC. Senator Schumer never even mentioned the PTC in his response to me, but instead, rambled on about the need to “reduce foreign oil imports,” and increase “efficiency” – neither of which have anything to do with wind-generated electricity.

Senator Schumer recently feigned alarm following complaints by citizens about soaring electric rates, demanding answers about it — while simultaneously supporting extending the Wind PTC (as well as other rate-increasing “renewable” projects). Senator Schumer’s hypocrisy is outrageous, and simply unacceptable.

Perhaps it’s time that U.S. ratepayers and taxpayers demand that their elected officials first pass an energy literacy exam before they pass on such cost-exorbitant, ‘green’ boondoggles to consumers.

Call to Action!
Congress is on vacation through August, which makes this the perfect time to approach your Senators and Representatives while they’re home.  We can attend town hall meetings and in-district fundraisers. Remind your representatives that WE put them in office, and that WE can just as easily VOTE THEM OUT!

Since energy plays a pivotal role in our national economy – impacting the cost of absolutely everything else, candidates should have “Energy” listed on their Issues webpage.

Good candidates will support an “All of the Sensible“ energy policy as opposed to the “All of the Above” energy policy which President Obama has been pushing on behalf of the ‘green’ movement. “Sensible” alternative energy options are those that have scientific proof that they have a net societal benefit.
Industrial wind fails this test miserably!

For more information, you can refer them to an excellent book that I have handed out to a number of elected officials — Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the FuturebyRobert Bryce.

Continue to call and write their offices, and encourage them to oppose any extension of the PTC and ITC! Write letters to your local newspapers, copy their district offices, and post information on their social media pages (i.e.: Facebook & Twitter).

We must demand accountability from elected officials, or VOTE THEM OUT! Reliable, affordable energy is what has made America great. Let’s keep it that way.

- See more at:

Industrial Wind Needs Blowback (Siemens ad campaign targeting U.S. taxpayers) — MasterResource

http://www.masterresource.org/2014/08/siemens-ad-us-taxpayers/

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