"When Representative Laura Sibilia, the reporter of S.5 to the full House from the Environment and Energy Committee, rose from her seat on April 20 to explain the bill, she made the following blockbuster admission: 

“We have heard folks say that stopping all of Vermont’s emission would do nothing to change the weather patterns that we are seeing with climate change.  With apologies to my environmental friends, I mostly agree.  If Vermont cannot stop climate change, then why bother…

Positive News !

Rural America fighting against wind power !!!

Robert Bryce .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDvpw2G0AM

Many Vermont lawmakers – including some now holding powerful positions on energy committees – have ignored the physical and financial suffering created by industrial wind turbines and their backers, the ratepayer-subsidized renewable power industry. 

I was there. I saw it happen. 

In  March 2016, I…

Are the chickens finally coming home to roost for Vermont energy policy drivers – especially the politicans facing re-election in less than two weeks?

For more than a decade, renewable policies have been promulgated by a revolving door of lobbyists becoming renewable entrepreneurs, lobbyists becoming politicians, and some politicians voting for policies satisfying their ideological inclinations without apparent regard to the effects of these policies on Vermont’s…

"The environmental destruction that will be left by developers marching across the country carpeting our ridgelines and open lands with 600-foot spinning turbines, solar panels, substations, and miles of high voltage transmission is impossible to quantify. Habitats will be degraded and destroyed, viewsheds industrialized, and wildlife killed or displaced. Federal and state agencies will be hamstrung by new permitting rules – also part of Schumer-Manchin – that will impair their…

Congratulations to Governor Scott who cares about his constituent's future and well- being !

Shame to those democratic legislators who voted to override the Governor's veto !

An immense bravo to democrats Nelson Brownell and Thomas Bock who courageously defied the pathological ideological drivel from the  Vermont enviro/businesses/activists conglomerate who tried so desperately to sink their teeth in Vermont's backs . 

"The Vermont House today…

The article linked below was written by Ben Walsh who works for Vermont Public Interest Group (VPIRG), a powerful renewable lobby in Montpelier. 

Here is his introductory paragraph: "Leadership in the Vermont House and Senate, as well as the governor, have identified climate action as a key priority this year. They have recognized that Vermont has both a legal and moral obligation to cut climate pollution in an equitable way, and at a pace that recognizes the scale and severity…

"As a bedrock principle of state energy policy, Vermont law requires the Public Utility Commission to specify “strategies for reducing electric rates to the greatest extent possible in Vermont over the most immediate six-year period, for the next succeeding six-year…

Western Maine Renewables, LLC, Moscow

Applications for Natural Resources Protection Act and Site Location of Development Act Permits

Western Maine Renewables LLC is proposing 14 turbine, 58.8 MW windpower facility in the Town of Moscow. Maximum height for the proposed turbines is 591 feet. The applicant proposes collector lines, a substation, new roads, road upgrades, and an operations and maintenance building. The applications were accepted for processing on July 14,…

"Biden’s critics point to his increased energy regulation, shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and for months banning new drilling leases on federal lands. They also blame increased federal spending under the Biden administration, which has significantly increased inflation and, as a result, consumer prices for a range of goods and services.

The American Petroleum Institute said “ill-advised government decisions” are the main cause of the rising costs."

“Joe Biden…

“I don’t think Vermonters understand the Mack truck that’s coming at them when you start matching up resources to priorities this plan is going to embody. I just don’t think they understand how this is going to impact their lives and what it’s going to cost,” she said.

June Tierney, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service . …

http://vtdigger.org/2016/05/22/keith-ballek-where-is-the-public-interest-in-vpirgs-lobbying/

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Keith Ballek, of Sheffield, who is chair of the Sheffield Planning Commission and the Sheffield Democratic Committee, a member of the Caledonia County State Committee and a delegate to the Vermont State Democratic…

2.2 BILLION REASONS TO CARE....

This commentary is by Mitch Frankenberg, who serves on the Selectboard in West Rutland and is the author of the book “Twists, Turns, and Yellow Brick Roads: A Declaration of Independence, Empathy, and Self-Control.” 

The number 2.2…

AND TAXPAYERS , FORCED AND UNWILLING STOCKHOLDERS WITHOUT ANY HOPE FOR REWARD EXCEPT TO "SAVE THE PLANET", UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN COMPANY DECISIONS, CAN ONLY SEE THEIR MONEY MISUSED DUE TO GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT MALPRACTICE. GRAND THEFT. 

The sad story of how the biggest solar company in the world fell to its knees

SunEdison, the biggest solar-energy manufacturing firm in the entire world, …

STEVE THURSTON: SHINING SOME LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF SOLAR

A LONG BUT VERY INFORMATIVE REPORT OF WHAT THE DISCUSSIONS AT THE  PARIS CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE LAST DECEMBER HAVE PRODUCED .

DOUBLING RENEWABLE  WORLDWIDE BY 2030.

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As many of us fought the despicable LD 1513, it is important to realize how long ago the close relationship between John Baldacci and Iberdrola started and how Iberdrola slowly and patiently laid its plans to attempt to conquer the lion share of the electric system in Maine, both transmission and eventually generation.…