By Mary Kay Barton
The Coalition for Sensible Siting welcomes this article from our friend and voice for citizens for New York State on industrial wind.
Larry Beahan of the Sierra Club Niagra Group, declared in his 8/7/12 Buffalo News 'Another Voice' piece that FIT - a feed-in-tariff (aka: another TAX) should be mandated to guarantee rates for "green" energy for the next 20 years.
Apparently Mr. Beahan is unaware that industrial wind energy already has been feeding at the government trough of taxpayer-funded corporate welfare for over 20 years now - in the form of the Production Tax Credit, and 1603 Direct Cash Grant Program.
The reality is, subsidies for industrial wind cost FAR more than any other source, as spelled out in the 8/1/12 Master Resource article, "New York State's Money-Road to Nowhere":
“On a per kWh basis, wind receives 80 times the public subsidies received by fossil fuels, but produces no reliable electricity capacity and very few American jobs. In fact, for every green job that wind supposedly creates, it destroys two to four regular jobs – in large part due to “skyrocketing” electricity rates.”
So
what do we get for those exorbitant costs? Industrial wind provides virtually
NO Capacity Value / Firm Capacity (specified amounts of power on demand), and
therefore, can NOT provide modern power – period. Despite having over 140,000
Industrial Wind Turbines installed worldwide, CO2 emissions have NOT been
significantly reduced – ANYWHERE!
We
may as well mandate that we get 25% of our naval fleet from sailboats, 25% of
our air transport from gliders, or 25% of our gas & diesel vehicle transport
from horse and buggies.
Another reality -- Germany is now building 17 new coal, and 29
new gas-fired power plants to replace their emissions-free nuclear plants.
Environmentalist Jon Boone has done an excellent job of defining the problems with the Sierra Club's blind support of industrial wind in his report, "The Sierra Club: How support for Industrial Wind technology subverts its history, betrays its mission, and erodes commitment to the scientific method".
Paul Driessen's Washington Times article today (8/7/12), "Wind Energy Tax Credits Fund Bird Murder," points to the hypocrisy of any supposed bird enthusiast supporting industrial wind.
Obviously, the
admittedly "necessarily skyrocketing" electricity prices associated with this Administration's "green" agenda, will
further drive business out of NYS (and the U.S.), and hurt our poor the most.
You would think that folks would understand that that our $16 TRILLION Dollar indebted nation can no longer afford to throw good money after bad pursuing the wishful thinking of "green" enthusiasts. Our resources would be much better spent on Energy Efficiency, and research on technologies of the future - not antiquated corporate money-grubbing schemes like ENRON-initiated wind power.
I think we can all agree -- The time for science-based energy policies is now!
Mary Kay Barton
Mary Kay Barton, a retired health educator and small business owner in New York State, is a tireless advocate for scientifically sound, affordable, and reliable electricity for all Americans. She has served over the past decade in local Water Quality organizations and enjoys gardening and birding in her National Wildlife Federation “Backyard Wildlife Habitat.”
You would think that folks would understand that that our $16 TRILLION Dollar indebted nation can no longer afford to throw good money after bad pursuing the wishful thinking of "green" enthusiasts. Our resources would be much better spent on Energy Efficiency, and research on technologies of the future - not antiquated corporate money-grubbing schemes like ENRON-initiated wind power.
I think we can all agree -- The time for science-based energy policies is now!
Mary Kay Barton
Mary Kay Barton, a retired health educator and small business owner in New York State, is a tireless advocate for scientifically sound, affordable, and reliable electricity for all Americans. She has served over the past decade in local Water Quality organizations and enjoys gardening and birding in her National Wildlife Federation “Backyard Wildlife Habitat.”
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