DOE-designate Perry’s Windy Past (Texas, per-Enron, a wind welfare queen)
Perry’s Windy Past
(Texas, per-Enron, a wind welfare queen)
MasterResource, which plays no (crony) favorites, has been critical of Rick (‘all-energy-things-to-all people’) Perry. Sort of sounds like a politician on the move who wants to fill his political coffers with green money too.
With the news that former Texas Governor Perry is the secretary-designate for the US Department of Energy, I share some quotations from past posts at MasterResource on his pro-wind tenure in Texas. Comments welcome.
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Comment by Paula D Kelso on December 18, 2016 at 8:56pm
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I guess I'm looking at it that, although Perry is a politician, he has executive administrative experience and that should be an improvement over having a physicist as a department head. (Not any criticism of physicists) And what is so wrong with a new administrator over a huge department sending out a questionnaire asking for background on people and policies? Better a clean sweep in the beginning than to have to deal with sabotage of new people and policies by bitter bench warmers. Four years is a relatively short time to accomplish all the governmental fiscal and regulatory reforms Trump has laid out. His cabinet will have to hit the ground running and won't have the luxury of getting warm and fuzzy with their underlings. Sure it's good to have a range of viewpoints but when the whistle blows it's time to play the game and not second guess the quarterback. There will be checks and balances but it should be apparent quite quickly how each cabinet member is shaping up. And Trump doesn't seem like the type to worry about pulling out a player and sending in a new one if things aren't going good.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on December 18, 2016 at 5:56pm
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I suppose it is easy for a Governor (past) to like something when there are Federal Dollars attached and redistribute that wealth as and when desired.
We must keep in mind that Ivanka has Trump's "Democratic Ear" and was responsible for inviting the likes of Gore (and some others) to the Trump hotel for a confab.........
We may need to still nudge Trump (Republicans & Democrats) over the voices of these Radicals who would work to save the atmosphere at the peril of destroying the earth.
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Was there ever a wind turbine project (with commiserate subsidies of many kinds) that he did not like?
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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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