China could add as much as 400 million tons of coal capacity over the next two years, according to analysts at the consulting firm Woods Mackenzie.

That’s about a 10 percent increase in China’s coal production capacity, which is a stark contrast to the country’s talk about closing coal mines to reduce excess capacity and fight air pollution, according to Bloomberg. “For all its talk about cutting coal mining capacity, China actually plans to add more.” the news outlet reported on Monday.

Chinese officials made moves to shelve coal projects and increase the use of natural gas for heating — though that left many working poor without heat during the frigid winter. All of these actions are generally put in context of China’s commitment to the Paris Agreement.

China promised to “peak” emissions around 2030, decrease carbon dioxide emissions per unit of economic output and use more green energy. Woods Mackenzie’s analysis released Monday, however, shows that China is far away from a green energy renaissance like many environmental activists hope.

Read the rest of the article at the following weblink: https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/24/china-coal-report/

Will we allow Communist China to build and operate the largest wind project in Maine?

EDP Renewables has plans to build the largest wind project in Maine, the so called Number Nine wind farm in Aroostook County. http://numberninewindfarm.com/

This project was seemingly endorsed by Patrick Woodcock in 2015, then Director of Maine's Energy Office and now the Assistant Secretary of Energy for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. WOODCOCK%20EDPR.pdf

EDP is partially owned by China Three Gorges, which is state run by Communist China. In the article below, it can be seen that China Three Gorges is trying to buy the remainder of EDP.

In other words, China plans to control others' electricity and in the process, collect free money via subsidies. At the same time it is continuously building coal plants for its own electricity production and trying to get the U.S. to stop using coal and other fossil fuels via international agreements, completely lopsided in China's favor.

Strategy Summary

• China slows us down with renewable energy folly
• Increased U.S. electricity costs due to renewables increases our manufacturing costs
• China burns coal, reducing its manufacturing costs
• China, who is openly trying to take over world trade through such programs as its "One Belt, One Road" neocolonialistic plan wants to control others' energy production by buying their energy companies
• China takes in huge revenues selling renewable energy infrastructure to other countries
• China grows yet richer and others poorer as companies like EDP vacuum up our stupidly handed out subsidies for renewable energy
• As our national debt grows, China, who owns some of our national debt further enriches itself
• Additionally, there is significant evidence that some of these wind projects are undermining our military facilities. For example, Fort Drum has already gone on record stating that the Maple Ridge wind project (and others in Lewis County) are compromising its mission and operational readiness. In support of that, a top person at the National Weather Service wrote that the Maple Ridge wind project (and others in Lewis County) are having a very serious effect on multiple regional weather radars — which is also problematic to Fort Drum. One could perhaps wonder if a Communist China strategy is to try and locate wind projects near where they can monitor and interfere with US military operations.

China thinks global and acts local. An example of their local actions would be the Number Nine wind farm in Aroostook. As Mainers and U.S. citizens, do we really want to be this stupid?

May 14, 2018

China Three Gorges to offer $10.8 billion for EDP

China Three Gorges Corp. late Friday said it plans to launch a EUR9.07 billion ($10.8 billion) offer to acquire the almost 77% it doesn't already own of Portugal's main energy utility, a bold move to expand further into Europe's power sector that will likely attract heavy scrutiny from the U.S. and other governments in the West.

By consolidating its ownership of Energias de Portugal SA, or EDP, China Three Gorges, or CTG, would gain full control of Portugal's largest electricity producer, distributor and supplier. But it also would offer the Chinese state-owned energy company a bigger platform to gain exposure to EDP's power operations in several other countries in Europe, including Spain, France, Italy and the U.K. In the Americas, the Lisbon-based company is present in Brazil, Mexico and in the U.S., where it operates wind farms across much of that country.

Read the full article at the following weblink:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-three-gorges-to-offer-108-b...

If you thought what Google was doing to conservatives was bad, look at what it is doing in China

Sounds like the Orwellian dream come true. Anyone who wants to have a cell phone and look up information in China would become a target for communist China's odious secret police, and they will be looking.

Seriously, a device to track your every move and every question asked is right there in the realm of thought control, and amazingly enough, it was an American company, full of leftists, who made such a communist dream a reality. The old Stalin or Mao system of informants and knocks on the door at midnight was just too crude and inefficient. Today's totalitarians are sleek and efficient, with Google technology powering their capacity to zero in on just the most disruptive people, the better to keep the rest of society submissive, with the least possible effort. This is how code works, deducting, deducting, deducting, and why it's done so much for America's productivity revolution. Now it's being applied to totalitarians' needs, with Google the big pioneer in it.

Who would have thought it would be American technology and know-how that made just such a system possible? What's more, who doesn't think these people won't find a way around it to bring it here?

Business Insider explains why Google doesn't want anyone to know:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/if_you_thought_what_go...