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Cap-and-trade schemes could hurt families and send jobs overseas
August 5, 2009 in The Seattle Times
August 5, 2009 in The Seattle Times
Cap-and-trade schemes could hurt families and send jobs overseas
The recently passed U.S. House bill to create a cap-and-trade system to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions threatens to hurt families and send jobs out of the country, argues Washington state Rep. Shelly Short, R-Addy. In Washington state, the definition of 'green jobs' is ill defined.
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The current fiscal catastrophe in Nevada is being further damaged by the governor's office, which has given carte blanche to alternative wind energy limited liability companies to move into Nevada and game the tax credit system and then to follow tax subsidies that are solely funded by taxpayer money.
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JEFFREY Corrigan of Broadview Energy company (letters, October 5) should tell us how many megawatts of electricity the proposed turbines at Westnewton will produce.
It is high time these energy company representatives stopped all their "spinning" about how many houses will be supplied by these industrial monsters.
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Impact on Landscape|
UK]
Renewable energy sources are a great hope for the future. But there is a time and place for everything. The time for the construction of wind power facilities is after environmental impact studies. The place is anywhere away from people and off of ridge-tops.