Jeb Bush said that a federal program promoting wind energy production, which recently expired, has worked and should be renewed for at least a few more years
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/7/jeb-bush-federal-win...
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Enron and Wind Energy
Enron bought Zond Wind Energy and around 1990 persuaded California to allow them to package the "environmental attributes" of wind turbines as commodities separate from the actual energy produced.[citation needed] They are now called "green tags" or "renewable energy certificates."[citation needed] In addition, Enron worked with Texas governor George W. Bush to ensure the continuation of a "production tax credit" for wind energy.[6] After Enron's collapse, General Electric bought Enron's wind division.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Enron_Corporation
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Remembering When Enron Saved the U.S. Wind Industry
https://www.masterresource.org/enron-legacy/enron-saved-us-wind-rev...
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Wind Tax Credits Vital to Energy Independence, Karl Rove Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-05/wind-tax-credits-...
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SOME CONSERVATIVES PLAYING TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN?
http://spectator.org/articles/61975/some-conservatives-playing-too-...
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Stupidity as related to energy policy has certainly been bipartisan .
Ending the PTC should be a a non-partisan demand of the american citizen!
The CEO of enron was the guy George Bush, the George Bush who lost the popular vote to Al Gore often referred to as Kenny boy. When digging into who is behind alternate energy programs you don't have to dig far to find an oil man. Why? The obvious reason is they have been behind this fiasco from the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8
Republicans and ultra progressives both agree on giving enormous subsidies to capitalists selling an inefficient, unreliable and costly form of energy . !!!!!
How can we the people fight for our rights and justice when nobody represents us. ?
monique
U.S. Sen Angus King
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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 - 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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