Despathy: To meet carbon ‘goals,’ Vermont will play the corporate carbon credit game
For anyone interested in recent actions related to the Clean Heat Standard saga and questionable actions by the Public Utilities Commission. This Vermont Public news story may be insightful. In sum, a contract for biogas-powered electricity from a New York landfill will generate little actual 'renewable' power for Vermont. And unlike the nuclear and hydropower the Legislature is turning its nose up at, it's not even carbon-free generation. It is evident that faux solutions will be sought after in order for Vermont to play the corporate carbon credit game. This will not offer any level of a real solution for Vermont or the environment. If it is solely based on a carbon metric with no measurable or actual impact then we are not making progress. Action and solutions must make sense and be tangible. One of the major problems with the Global Warming Solutions Act is that its narrow emphasis on carbon distracts from solving the actual problems we face here related to a clean environment- water, land, air quality goals, chemical reductions and the issue of ubiquitous microplastics - found everywhere including human lung tissue. There are multiple meaningful actions that VT can take to reduce and sequester our carbon, weatherize, and emphasize efficiency, while we diversify energy sources and build out supportive, necessary infrastructure and ensure equitable access to options for all. The Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) also disturbingly allows anyone to sue Vermont if carbon reductions are not met. This is essentially akin to someone punishing themselves for getting an A instead of an A+. Vermont is doing an incredible job with living lightly on the earth and fostering and promoting sustainable lifestyles. Many are working hard and working towards a path that serves the environment and the people everyday with their choices to the capacity that they are able. There are kinder options and solutions that do not punish the people and businesses for not making the change quick enough. The GWSA will only result in a waste of taxpayer dollars in lawsuits versus the application of money to help people transition and aid the overall situation at hand. Considerations regarding striking down and amending this aspect of the GWSA will help ensure that money does not get wasted with lawyers and the courts and will also help prevent impulsive, ineffective actions to “prove” carbon reduction. This way available funding can go towards creating the change we need and want to see happen here in VT. |
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 21, 2022 at 10:48am
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Biden Administration Artificially Lowered Immigration Numbers By Pre-Approving Thousands Of Migrants
"Humanitarian Parole" - a fancy name for an invasion of our country from the criminal globalist administrative state that installed our puppet government and engineers election theft
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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