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| Danish mink farm Photo courtesy of the World Council for Nature |
According to the executive
order, “Historically, Virginia has ensured reliable and affordable energy,
helping businesses and consumers thrive. The Commonwealth boasts tens of
thousands of energy-related jobs, including mines, gas well crews,
manufacturing workers, engineers, mechanics, computer programmers, accountants,
and managers. Virginians can and should be proud of the energy industry, but a
changing market and energy environment requires decisive action to position the
Commonwealth to be a national leader in innovative
energy generation and utilization.”
Why is the market
changing? Is it a deliberate change, and why do we need innovative energy
generation and utilization? Is it the fulfillment of the administration’s
promise to cause electricity costs to “necessarily skyrocket,” while
bankrupting the coal industry?
According to Michael
Bastasch from the Daily Caller News Foundation, “at least six electric
cooperative utilities across the mid-west and southwest could raise electricity
rates up to 40 percent if the EPA imposes new permitting regulations on
coal-fired power plants.” Deseret Power Electric Cooperative (DPEC), that
serves 45,000 people in rural Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado, must spend
$200 million to install advanced equipment to satisfy the Clean Air Act Title V
permit. DPEC’s Bonanza Power Plant is located on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservations.
The environmentalist WildEarth Guardians are suing EPA to force Bonanza
Utilities to upgrade to a Title V permit. After public comments close on June
16, customers will have to foot the bill through much higher utility charges.
Existing power plants must
cut their carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030 as mandated by the EPA
and each state must develop their own reduction plans. Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator,
said, “Although we limit pollutants like mercury, sulfur, and arsenic, there
are no limits on carbon pollution from power plants, our nation’s largest
source. For the sake of our families’ health and our kids’ future, we have a
moral obligation to act on climate.” It sounds so nice to have a totally clean
environment, who would object to that? However, since U.S. does not live in a
bubble, China and other populous third world nations are polluting away.
We could use the Keystone
XL pipeline to bring crude from Canada to refine in the U.S., reducing drastically
the dependency on OPEC cartel oil. But
the White House decided not to approve it, citing environmental issues even
though there are other pipelines carrying crude oil. We would not want crony
capitalists’ railroads to suffer if crude oil is delivered by more effective,
cheaper, and safer pipelines.
The current regime has
been undermining the wealth, prosperity, and the U.S. economy, which has been
successfully based on fossil fuels energy generation, in order to satisfy the
progressive and Democrat agenda of environmentalism, the use of very expensive
and job-killing renewable energy. Millions of birds are chopped up and fried
each year at the altar of wind and solar energy. Dozens of taxpayer-subsidized
solar companies have gone bankrupt without producing much energy.
But the Virginia Energy
Plan boasts about the objective of “accelerating the development and use of
renewable energy resources – Virginia can become a hub of innovative and
alternative energy research and development by focusing on expanding the use of
the Commonwealth’s underutilized renewable assets, such a solar and offshore
wind.”
Liberals love solar and
wind energy as long as the solar panels, which need considerable acreage to
install and plenty of sun year around, are installed on someone else’s property.
But no progressive would agree to have
the ugly, unsightly, and noisy wind mills installed in their own back yards because
they would be destroying their vineyards’ and horse-riding pastures’ “view shed.”
Aside from frying birds that
happen to wonder in the heat flux of the solar panels, or are attracted by the
reflecting panels that look like water, or chopped by the rotating blades of
the turbines, wind mills are damaging to animal and human health.
Paul Driessen, quoting
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and American Bird Conservancy, said that “wind
turbines kill 440,000 bald and golden eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, cranes,
egrets, geese, and other birds every year in the United States, along with
countless insect-eating bats.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/22/big-wind-tax-credit-exterminates-endangered-specie/#ixzz344ofkgw7
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| Golden eagle found alive 27 days after losing wing to wind turbine Photo courtesy: Jim Wiegand |
Accidents have resulted in
human injury and death when turbine blades flew from their mounts and landed on
roads and property. Noise disturbances associated with wind turbines have been
investigated in 1985 by the WAUBRA Foundation for the U.S. Department of Energy
http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/kelley-et-al-1985-acoustic-noise-associated-with-mod-1-wind-turbine/
and in 1987 by N.D. Kelley, Solar Energy Research Institute of Colorado in
regards to low-frequency noise emissions by wind turbines into nearby homes.
http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/kelley-et-al-1985-acoustic-noise-associated-with-mod-1-wind-turbine/
H. Hubbard, member INCE, discussed in 1982 “Noise Induced House Vibrations and
Human Perception.”http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/hubbard-h-1982-noise-induced-house-vibrations-human-perception/
Some cities, after having
spent millions to install wind turbines, turn them off when winds reach higher
speeds because the noise pollution is unbearable, causing insomnia, tinnitus,
and other ailments. Some people had abandoned their nice homes and moved into
trailers. http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/2014/why-didnt-this-man-believe-wind-turbines-make-people-sick-illinois/
And there are many other little
known secrets of wind power and its operability. http://www.aweo.org/problemwithwind.html
In October 2013, Dr. Sarah
Laurie delivered her speech, “Wind Turbine Noise, Adverse Health Effects &
Professional Ethics” at the Human Rights Conference. The CEO of the Waubra
Foundation discussed “the damage unregulated noise pollution is doing to human
health, with a particular focus on the effects of infrasound and low frequency
noise. Wind turbines are one source, but there are others also doing damage.”
Dr. Laurie pointed out that Dr. Kelly and his co-researchers at the Solar
Energy Research Institute “identified in 1985 that the source of annoyance for
the residents living near a single downwind bladed turbine was ‘impulsive
infrasound and low frequency noise, which resonated within the building
structure.’”
http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/laurie-s-wind-turbine-noise-adverse-health-effects-and-professional-ethics/ |
| Some minks born prematurely Courtesy: World Council for Nature |
Duchamp reported on June
7, 2014 that 1,600 minks were born prematurely, with deformities, or dead. With
the farmer’s permission, he posted pictures of the fetuses. Four 3-Megawatt
turbines, VESTAS model V112, 140 m in height, were installed 328 m away from
the farm. http://wcfn.org/
Because the only major
change in the farm life of these minks who died or miscarried en masse in
mysterious circumstances in two separate incidents (one of which was described
to a parliamentary committee on wind farms), and disease was ruled out, it was speculated that the installation of
wind turbines was the only culprit. Duchamp said, “low frequency vibrations
emitted by wind turbines can cause serious ill-effects on health, including
altered behavior, deformities, miscarriages, and premature births.
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| Dead minks who attacked each other Courtesy: World Council for Nature |
In spite of the fact that
wind and solar energy are not reliable, depending on fossil energy during down
times, kill millions of birds, including our national bird (an estimated 2,300 golden
eagles over the past 25 years were killed at Altamont Pass, California), harm
animals and their fetal development, and affect human health in many ways,
Democrats, including those now in charge in Virginia, are going full-steam
ahead with their environmentalist agenda through executive orders and EPA
regulations.
Update
The farmer petitioned the
government to move his mink farm further away from the four wind turbines on
his own land but his permit was denied.
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