Dr. Blanchard tasks us renewable energy advocates with his argument that all of our green power sources—solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, biomass, and even hydroelectric—suck up far more wealth in government subsidies than they produce. In his quest for policy consistency,…
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Protestors have been occupying the Kentucky governor's office since Friday to protest mountain-top removal coal mining. Among the protestors: poet, philosopher, and rural activism hero Wendell Berry, described by Bill McKibben as the "finest writer at work in the English…
Basin Electric's proposed NextGen plant near Selby wasn't the only coal-fired electrical generating station to get the red light in 2010. For the second year in a row, no one in the United States started building a new coal-fired power…
Last year Basin Electric said it was "re-evaluating the timeline" for its NextGen coal-fired power plant near Selby. Looks like the re-evaluating is over: NextGen is nixed. From today's Federal Register: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGYWestern Area Power Administration Notice of Cancellation…