Time to Convict Global Warming Scam Artists

Democratic attorney generals are using their office to bully global warming skeptics.   A coalition of thugs have threatened to use their office as a means to shut up businesses, think tanks and others for having the audacity to question an industry infested with green energy scam artists.  But that knife cuts both ways.  Here is an excerpt from the Washington Times:

The “cuts both ways” argument was among those raised by 13 Republican attorneys general in a letter urging their Democratic counterparts to stop using their law enforcement power against fossil fuel companies and others that challenge the climate change catastrophe narrative.

Consider carefully the legal precedent and threat to free speech, said the state prosecutors in their letter this week, headed by Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.

“If it is possible to minimize the risks of climate change, then the same goes for exaggeration,” said the letter. “If minimization is fraud, exaggeration is fraud.”

The letter comes as Exxon Mobil fights off subpoenas by two prosecutors — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker — for decades’ worth of climate-related documents and communications with academics, universities and free-market think tanks.

 So let it be written, so let be done.  We can start with Al Gore and work our way through the government grant schemers who’ve defrauded the American taxpayers with bogus studies and then we can go after the international scammers at the United Nations. 

I say bring it on!

Source:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/16/gop-ags-dems-climate-alarmists-can-be-prosecuted/

N.C. Law Forces Higher Energy Prices onto Consumers

The green energy scam continues to cost North Carolinians.  Duke/Progress Energy is forced by the state to purchase renewable sources such as solar.  Of course, these pie-in-the-sky technologies are costly and inefficient.  The News and Observer reported the following:

At a time that Progress Energy is seeking a 14 percent rate increase for residential customers in North Carolina, the Raleigh power company wants to slash payments as much as 29 percent for electricity it buys from solar generators and other renewables producers. If approved by the N.C. Utilities Commission, the request would reduce rates the electric utility pays for green energy to levels not seen since 1984, when there was no green energy to speak of in North Carolina.

The power company’s request is tied to the plummeting cost of natural gas, which is lowering the market price of electricity nationwide. Progress contends that it is now overpaying for the green energy it has to buy under state law, and passing on those inflated costs to its customers, who ultimately bear the financial burden in their monthly bills.

The move to cut rates comes at a crucial time for solar power in the state as the industry has nearly weaned itself off a key subsidy.

Only a few years ago, power companies paid solar generators a premium of about 12 cents for every kilowatt hour of power, roughly twice as much in subsidy support as the solar producers made from selling electricity. Today, solar producers typically receive less than 1 cent a kilowatt hour as a subsidy.

The shrinking subsidy – known as a “renewable energy certificate” – had solar advocates congratulating themselves for creating a self-sustaining industry in relatively short order. With the subsidy expected to go away in the near future, North Carolina’s solar industry is operating on razor-thin margins and could come to a standstill if Progress significantly cuts payments for electricity, advocates warn.

“There would be a big curtailment,” said Richard Harkrader, chief executive at Carolina Solar Energy, a Durham developer. “The stuff under contract would go ahead, but it would be very difficult to build any new (solar projects).”

Earlier this year, a hearing was held in Charlotte.  Consumers blamed the energy companies of profiteering.  Unfortunately, these outraged citizens are unaware of a law that requires Duke/Progress to purchase a resource that is costly; a cost that is passed onto them.

 

 

 

The Democrats would have us believe that renewables will save the planet.  And that you should be happy to pay higher energy bills to save Mother Earth.  After all, you’re nothing compared to the environment.    

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/25/2565806/progress-duke-want-to-slash-payments.html#storylink=cpy

"Sustainable Raleigh" Green Energy Scam

The United States is going through a phase where a group of conspirators have found it easier to raid the taxpayer’s pockets by means of public/private initiatives, rather than go through a market based economy.  And it’s all in the name of the fraud known as global warming.  Raleigh, North Carolina is in the vanguard. 

“Project Get Ready is in harmony with the City of Raleigh’s mission statement. It focuses on 21st century environmental, cultural and economic sustainability. Its objective of providing the infrastructure to support electric vehicles when they begin hitting the showrooms in 2010, conserves our environmental resources by reducing emissions for cleaner air, and reduces our dependence on oil.

“Project Get Ready also embraces our mission statement’s keystone of working with Raleigh universities, colleges, regional partners and citizens to cultivate new opportunities and solutions to strengthen our community.

“At the Project Get Ready – Raleigh kickoff meeting on Feb. 19, we had representatives from throughout the region and every corner of the economy. Dee Freeman, secretary of the State’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources was invaluable. Other notable entities represented at the meeting were Highwoods, Wake County Public Schools, Wake Tech, McLaurin Parking Co., Triangle Transit, North Carolina State University, Enterprise Rental Car, Downtown Raleigh Alliance, Triangle Clean Cities, Progress Energy, St. Augustine’s College, Triangle Town Center, Meredith College, the North Carolina Department of Energy, Research Triangle Energy, Kane Realty, Advanced Energy and the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

“With that lineup of players, Project Get Ready really is ready to succeed in the Triangle. By engaging Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill in Project Get Ready we will not only be partnering with multiple municipalities, we will be involving two power utilities – Progress Energy and Duke Energy.

“We are delighted to embark on this mission with Progress Energy, Advanced Energy Rocky Mountain Institute and the entire Triangle community.”

As part of the partnership, Progress Energy is paying for the plug-in stations. The City of Raleigh is installing them. Six stations will be put in place over the next couple of months, Mayor Meeker said. They will be Downtown – in parking garages and on the street -- and near the campus of North Carolina State University. He noted that the parking garages at North Hills are being considered for the plug-in stations.

These initial stations will allow the City of Raleigh, Advanced Energy and Progress Energy to evaluate vendors, the cost to install stations, the ability to upgrade stations, visibility, potential use and record usage data.

The City of Raleigh is seeking a grant associated with the federal stimulus funding that would provide for the widespread installation of plug-in vehicle infrastructure and 100 cars.

Celgard, a battery manufacturer for electric cars located in Charlotte and Concord, is having financial problems due to a lack of demand.  Governments cannot propel create a demand in the market place, only consumers can.  Here is a list of all of the “green energy” companies that have went bankrupt, or is in the process of bankruptcy:

Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*

SpectraWatt ($500,000)*

Solyndra ($535 million)*

Beacon Power ($43 million)*

Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)

SunPower ($1.2 billion)

First Solar ($1.46 billion)

Babcock and Brown ($178 million)

EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*

Amonix ($5.9 million)

Fisker Automotive ($529 million)

Abound Solar ($400 million)*

A123 Systems ($279 million)*

Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*

Johnson Controls ($299 million)

Brightsource ($1.6 billion)

ECOtality ($126.2 million)

Raser Technologies ($33 million)*

Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*

Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*

Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*

Range Fuels ($80 million)*

Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*

Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*

Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*

GreenVolts ($500,000)

Vestas ($50 million)

LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)

Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*

Navistar ($39 million)

Satcon ($3 million)*

Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*

Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)

*Denotes companies which filed for bankruptcy.

Source:  http://www.advancedenergy.org/corporate/news/2009/electric_plugin_partnership.html

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-s-80-billion-green-energy-program-continues-slide-into-tax-funded-failure

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