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Obama Administration recruited left-wing lobbyists to cover up failure of European wind energy programs
Chris Horner at Pajamas Media by Chris Horner writes on out an FOIA request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to help cover up two economic studies pointing to the failure of European wind energy programs.
As candidate and president, on eight separate occasions Barack Obama instructed Americans to “think about what’s happening in countries like Spain [and] Germany” if they wanted to know what successful “green jobs” policies look like, and if they wanted to know what we should expect here in the U.S. from his agenda.
Some European economists took a look. In March, a research team from Madrid’s King Juan Carlos University produced a detailed, substantive, heavily sourced, two-method paper: “Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources.” The paper concluded that Spain’s “green jobs” program was an economic failure, in fact costing Spain many jobs.
The president of Spain’s renewable energy association — along with a Communist Party affiliated trade federation — decried the paper’s lead author as being unpatriotic.
The former wrote in Spain’s leading paper, El Mundo, slamming the research paper. However, he did not critique the paper itself — he agreed with its conclusion. He was furious only that the study was publicized. By revealing the truth about Spain’s increasingly mythologized “green jobs” and renewable energy experience, the revealed study threatened the prospects for Spain’s companies to be bailed out by the U.S. repeating these mistakes.
Incidentally, this became a common refrain. After the Spanish study embarrassed the White House, prompting substantial media attention and even questioning at a press conference, Obama swapped out Denmark for Spain for later references to an enacted “green jobs” program.
Soon, Denmark produced a study (“Wind Energy: The Case of Denmark“) through the think-tank CEPOS. This paper also revealed tremendous costs, and that Obama’s claim about Denmark’s “renewables” experience was also steeped in mythology.
The response from windmill advocates in Denmark was similar: such studies threaten Danish industry by reducing the chances that the U.S. will serve as the hoped-for massive new market to make inefficient energy sources profitable for their foreign manufacturers (Danish Radio TV News, Thursday, February 25, 2010).
Back in the U.S., the American Wind Energy Association — the lobby for “Big Wind” in Washington, D.C., which includes a few Spanish wind giants — also attacked the publication of the Spanish paper.
Soon, the Obama administration published a five-page talking points memo assailing the economic assessment — written by two young, non-economist, pro-wind activists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Boulder, Colorado.
There is much, much more to this Horner’s article. Read the whole thing here.
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If I stated that the UK wind turbine contribution to the country’s power resources is derisory I’d probably be overstating its performance. It is currently contributing 17MW to the National Grid, and every non-propagandist view is that it will never produce significant amounts of power, and more importantly, won’t reduce emissions. The Denmark experience evidences this, though propagandists deny it, unconvincingly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/6957501/Wind-farms-produced-practically-no-electricity-during-Britains-cold-snap.html
“Wind farms produced ‘practically no electricity’ during Britain’s cold snap”
To say that wind turbines are of any use is like saying that airships will replace tranatlantic jet flight.
Wind Turbines not much good for vultures either !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srPoOU6_Z4&feature=player_embedded
Not much good for US workers when stimulus funds are creating jobs in China, but at least some politicians want the madness to stop as regards wind turbines being manufactured abroad
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10003356/buy-american-the-wind-industrys-achilles-heel/
Of course, when the weather’s hot and sticky and you want your air-conditioning on there’s no wind.
Hey Graham dont forget India in the Obama Green stimulus package:
$90 million in stimulus money for MADE IN INDIA wind Turbines.
http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2010/03/carnahan-wind-farms-robin-carnahans.html
Now the stimulus money is supposed to create American jobs. It’s also supposed to create green jobs. (Go back and review the truth and don’t forget it. Americans have short attention spans. It’s bolded above.) However, Tom Carnahan, Robin’s brother, cites the turbines for his wind farm don’t have the made with American pride and a US flag underneath the manufacturers name. They are stamped MADE IN INDIA.
(Green jobs are government jobs and green is the new communist red–don’t ever forget that.)
Any day now I’m expecting Obama to mandate use of horse-less carriages, out-houses, chastity belts and the guillotine – you know, all those “progressive” technologies.
The article failed to provide a link to this “five-page talking points memo” or give any means of finding it. This makes it hard to judge the veracity of its claims. I did find a link to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and its list of publications. People can at least read these studies for themselves and decide their value.
http://www.nrel.gov/wind/pubs_issues.html#impacts
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