Goldwater Institute wants to end solar subsidies. All of them.
Per Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute (GI): It’s not every day that the New York Times makes a compelling case against government giveaways. But a recent page-one article underscored that the Solyndra scandal was only the tip of the solar-subsidy iceberg. Huge companies like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, General Electric, utilities including Exelon and [...]
ALEC controls the Arizona Corporation Commission too. Wants to gut solar energy.
Feelin’ too lazy to update the blog with a proper post but I did want to alert y’all to this report about ALEC and AZ’s renewable energy standard on CleanTechnica by blogger Susan Kraemer. Tuesday morning could be key in deciding Arizona solar policy for years to come. Because of the way public utilities oversight [...]
The crux of the problem with ALEC
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been around for decades but has recently attracted media attention due to a spate of reports exposing the organization’s mission to funnel corporate-friendly legislation through its ideologically conservative member legislators. ALEC is holding its annual conference in New Orleans as we speak. The AZ Capitol Times reports that [...]
Okay to pull bogus undercover stings on Planned Parenthood. Not okay to do legit undercover reports on farms and meatpacking plants.
Opponents of reproductive choice made hay over anti-abortion/contraception activist Lila Rose’s dishonest “sting” operations on Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. Her operatives mostly found clinic workers responding to a possible sex trafficking operation the way they were supposed to, which was to report it to the authorities. (The one employee who violated ethical standards [...]
Tuesday Energy Post: Two randomly selected opinions on nuclear power, juxtaposed.
Oxford Research Fellow Nicole Foss, AKA Stoneleigh: In my view, nuclear power represents an unjustified faith in the power of human societies to control extremely complex technologies over the very long term. Any activity requiring a great deal of complex and cooperative control will do badly in difficult economic times. Also, no human society has [...]
Tuesday Energy Post: That’s quite a waiver.
From the AZ Corporation Commission: MWE is the Morenci Water & Electric Company and REST is the Renewable Energy Standard Tariff. The REST goes toward funding to get Arizona to the goal of 15% renewable energy by 2025. Commissioner Paul Newman is asking for an increase to $4 million from $300K. Considering MWE should be [...]
Tuesday Energy Post: Have the Saudis and OPEC been “hiding the decline”?
I wonder if the intrepid climate change skeptics who got all bunched up over some leaked emails are going to get equally exercised over this? The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show. [...]
