Green-Scam

Local preservationists fight to save Civil War sites from solar energy execs

HENRICO COUNTY, Va.—The speed limit sign posted inside the barbed wire fence says 15 miles per hour. If you are driving over unmarked graves it is best to proceed with caution, all the better to avoid the yellow excavator bucket lying idle on the gravel roadway. Tree saplings have been planted the length of the perimeter to eventually obscure from public view hundreds of solar panels that rest on what was once a landscape of misery for boys from Georgia and Pennsylvania. The field, known as Savage’s Station, owes its name to the at least 900 Union and Confederate soldiers who killed each other here in Henrico County in 1862. The site is now filled with the ambitions of environmentalists, politicians, and solar energy executives.

I call it magic wand thinking; the idea that all a government has to do to replace fossil fuels with “green” alternatives is wave a magic wand (and a few trillion dollars) and – presto! – the world will have a low-carbon future.

They are far too expensive to displace petrol cars anytime soon.

Politicians have long championed the electric car. But now the House of Commons’ Transport Select Committee has raised serious concerns about their widespread use.

According to these MPs, electric cars could place so much demand on the National Grid that it won’t be able to cope. Huw Merriman MP, chair of the committee, argues that in parts of the country electric cars may even cause blackouts.

The state of Illinois is facing a looming energy crisis almost entirely of its own making, but despite having options on the table to avert it, the state appears ready to simply let the situation continue to implode. Thanks to state policies intended to end all energy production using fossil fuels, energy producers are increasingly struggling to remain viable. This is particularly true of the state’s nuclear power plants, run by energy company Commonwealth Edison, a subsidiary of Exelon. They have been unable to compete with the cheaper natural gas-fired plants in the state and are facing a potential bankruptcy situation.

As the global economy begins to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic recession it’s apparent, once again, that reports about the death of the age of oil — and of fossil fuels in general — were greatly exaggerated.

… One clue to this inside-baseball drama comes from an unlikely place—Science magazine, which is about as dead center in the scientific establishment as you can get. Last week Science published a remarkable article—remarkable for implicitly ratifying what climate “skeptics” have been saying about climate models for at least a decade, namely, that they are running “too hot.”

The article is entitled, “U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming,” and it is a real jaw-dropper …

… The whole point of a carbon tax is to remove politics from the equation, so the “price on carbon” lets market participants decide where to cut emissions. By having to pay stiff carbon taxes and finance millions in subsidies to particular companies, the average Canadian taxpayer is getting hit with the worst of both worlds.

We aren’t financing green technology, we’re financing Justin’s vanity.

Whenever human-induced climate change is discussed during Canada’s upcoming federal election, keep in mind the country that matters most on this issue is China and the fossil fuel that matters most in China is coal.