Opinions
Are renewable energy credits (RECs) and carbon offsets exchanged in totally different markets, with little crossover potential for project developers and investors?
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Tax Breaks & Subsidies|
USA]
While these claims provide amusement for most of us, the worry is that those in power tend to be the only ones who believe them.
We are constantly hearing news which further illustrates what a scam wind turbine industry is.
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General|
New Hampshire]
Why Illuzzi thinks that wind energy will "avoid cutting wide swaths through our...countryside..." is beyond me.
The footprint for wind is huge.
Other than profiting their promoters, the only reason to build them is to get something that we must have and cannot get in any other way.
Justifying the addition of towering turbines to Vermont's mountain scenery is a tall order.
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A developer should show some degree of integrity and professionalism by educating the community. Show the community and citizens of the county its benefits and potential drawbacks. Waving checks to some, pitting neighbor against neighbor, sliding agendas through the back door sounds like bureaucratic bull we’re all fed up with.
Despite the zoning classification of “conservation,” the previous majority supervisors and their allies, perhaps intoxicated by $3,000 annual payments for each of the 34 turbines, have been willing to bend, if not outright violate, township ordinances to push this project forward.
While it is true that the Public Service Board (PSB) is the decision-maker, it is a disservice to suggest that the town is powerless before the board or that zoning and Act 250 have no bearing.
Editor's Note: This letter was submitted to the Rutland Herald
Cape Wind is no more than a feel-good boondoggle, cleverly capitalizing on America's emerging right-headed desire to develop alternative energy sources.
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General|
Massachusetts]
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Structural Failure|
UK]
Equally undemocratic is the revolution in local government brought about by the rules from Mr Prescott which allow "monitoring officers" to exclude any councillor from debates in which they are deemed to have a "prejudicial interest". This includes any councillor who has previously expressed any view on the issue, or even who can be shown to have discussed it with members of the public before it comes up for debate.
I invite the wind energy proponents living along Vermont's "Great Lake" to pony up and put their money where their mouth is.
In the last couple of years I have watched Illuzzi do his fence jumping on the wind issues. One day he wants to destroy the ridgelines and if you wait a few weeks he doesn’t. It’s a lot like waiting for the wind to blow — you really never know where it’s coming from.
Wind power projects of the magnitude proposed on our ridgelines would drastically affect the character of our state and do little or nothing to alleviate the problems of acid rain and greenhouse warming.
In addition to the issue of scale, there are risks to jobs and the local economy, as well as questions about what a project this size might do to property values. These are reasonable questions that have yet to be answered.
If Catamount will lie on such a basic point as this, why should we believe anything else they say?
Leonhard states that the well-meaning hybrid car owners are driving "an expensive symbol that they are worried about our planet, rather than a true solution."
The same can be said for industrial wind on Vermont ridgelines. It would be a very expensive symbol, while allowing polluters to continue to pollute elsewhere, slowing the growth in the average air pollution, but not reducing it significantly.
Answers to some of Cape Wind's Pesky and Misleading Promises
February 16, 2006 in Cape Cod Today-Blog
February 16, 2006 in Cape Cod Today-Blog
Magical interviews science editor and writer Eric Rosenbloom for answer to some of Cape Wind's pesky and misleading promises.
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Massachusetts]
Take a good look at the beautiful skyline that you're proud to take pictures of and put them in your brochures and paper for Garrett County because it's fading, and once it's gone, it will be gone.