AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: August 24, 2015

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

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Some of the most informative articles in this issue are:

True Cost of Energy—Wind

Wind Energy Property Value Studies Summarized

Infrasound and Wind Turbines

Infrasound & Low Frequency Noise Can be Deadly

Favorable Court Ruling on 30-Year Eagle-Take Permits

30 Million Birds Annually Killed by Wind Turbines

Renewables drain our resources

Renewables Offer No Bang for Your Megawatt

The Energy Liberation Plan

Global Warming Alarmists Run Into Brick Wall Of Facts

Keeping it simple: the value of an irreducibly simple climate model

There are two debates about ‘climate change’

State Legislator’s Exceptional Letter on Global Warming

IPCC Sea Level Rise Projections Exaggerated

Note also there is a special section of several articles about the US EPA energy plan (like this)

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Greed Energy Economics

True Cost of Energy — Wind

Wind Energy Property Value Studies Summarized

Green Mythology and the High Price of Electricity

How Climate Policies Affect Lower-Income Residents

California “green energy” measure fails to create green jobs

Stop the Money to Kill the Climate Treaty

The Heavy Price of Renewable Energy in NC

Electricity Supply – Driven by Politics at the Customers’ Expense?

Germany Struggles With Too Much Renewable Energy

Costs of the Failure to Go Nuclear – Part 1

High Cost of Renewable Subsidies

Wind Subsidies Cost Taxpayers Big

Utility Ownership of Renewables Would Reverse a Decade’s Worth of Ratepayer Savings

Apple and Google Pour Millions Down a Green Drain

Iberdrola soaks up subsidy but cuts and runs at first sight of costs

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Turbine Health Matters

Infrasound and Wind Turbines

Infrasound & Low Frequency Noise Can be Deadly

Apology for slanderous allegations against Australian Doctor

An update of the global wind energy accident report

Video: Clean Air, Water and Soil: A Study of the Scientific Evidence

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Turbine Wildlife Matters:

Favorable Court Ruling on 30-Year Eagle-Take Permits

30 Million Birds Annually Killed by Wind Turbines

Wind turbines threaten Midwest birds, feds say

America’s big ‘green’ wrecking machines

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U.S. EPA Power Plan:

The Clean Power Plan Will Collide With The Physics of The Electric Grid

EPA’s Plan: An Account of Collusion, Cutting Corners, and Costing Americans Billions

The Cynicism of the Clean Power Plan

Emission Impossible: Climate Scientists Rip Apart EPA’s Global Warming Rule

The President’s CO2 Deception

Dr. Roy Spencer (short video): Plan is all pain, no gain

The Obama-Clinton One-Two Blackout

Obama’s latest global warming plan is about his legacy, not policy

Obama’s energy plan – It’s all about power

EPA’s Price Tag for Carbon Regulations: 34,000 Jobs

Industry, States Set to Fight EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules

Related Articles:

EPA’s gross negligence at Gold King

Gold King Mine spill threatens EPA credibility

EPA’s Actions Causing a Serious Health Disaster

Miscellaneous Energy News:

Renewables drain our resources

Renewables Offer No Bang for Your Megawatt

The Energy Liberation Plan

Vermont’s Energy Scofflaws

Germany’s Wind Power Surges Plunge Their Neighbors Into Darkness

Green Tyranny

Say No To ‘All Of The Above’

The Renewables Future – A Summary of Findings

The Wind Sector’s Elusive Quest for Quality

How Much Wind And Solar Can Norway’s Reservoirs Balance?

World Falls In Love With Coal That Obama Is Waging War On

Wind Turbines and Weather Radar Interference

Renewables in NSW produce 0.0% of all electricity generated

Offshore Drilling Can Be Done Safely

6,000 square miles of England earmarked for shale exploration

Opponents file challenge to Block Island wind farm in federal court

Cape Wind — A Tale of Crony Environmentalism

The nuclear waste divide

Nuclear Energy: The Diablo We Know

Interview with SMR NuScale CEO

New plant siting guidelines respond to growing SMR demand

(Archive) Worthwhile Wind Documentary: They’re Not Green

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Manmade Global Warming Articles

Global Warming Alarmists Run Into Brick Wall Of Facts

Keeping it simple: the value of an irreducibly simple climate model

There are two debates about ‘climate change’

State Legislator’s Exceptional Letter on Global Warming

The Embarrassing Bomb-Test Curve

Psychology and the New Climate Alarm

Curbing global warming: Mission impossible?

Australian Bureau of Meteorology just makes stuff up

Mark Steyn’s new book on Michael Mann

A new record Pause length: no warming for 18 years 7 months

Archive: The Neglected Sun

Tropical forcing of the recent rapid Arctic warming in Greenland Area

Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a ‘rush’

IPCC Sea Level Rise Projections Exaggerated

Our proposed national energy slogan is “All of the Sensible” (in contrast to the absurd “All of the Above”). Once legislators have grasped that concept, the foolishness of the “leveling the playing field” idea also becomes apparent. (Should the 18-wheeler trucks and golf cart playing field be leveled?) Additionally we should be using the term “unreliables” when speaking of renewables. Please pass these on. [US citizens should make sure to get up-to-speed with what is on our PTCFacts.Info pages, as the PTC is still a political issue.]

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