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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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3. Keep this in mind with press like the OP - expect the onslaught to increase

Reply to Throckmorton (Reply #1)

Tue May 29, 2012, 05:23 PM

May 2012

Right wing stepping up attacks on renewable energy
A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama's energy agenda.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112714465

ALEC Says It Plans To Craft Legislation To Take Down State Renewable Energy Targets
Two leading conservative political organizations say they are stepping up coordinated efforts to repeal state-level renewable energy targets.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112715562

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Germany counts cost of nuclear-to-renewables shift [View all] FBaggins May 2012 OP

Sounds like job opportunities N/T Throckmorton May 2012 #1

But how many are "broken window" jobs? n/t FBaggins May 2012 #2

Is my job maintaining the controls to a 36 year old nuclear plant a 'Broken Window" job? Throckmorton May 2012 #9

Keep this in mind with press like the OP - expect the onslaught to increase kristopher May 2012 #3

Why do you so regularly spin simple facts as "attacks"/"onslaughts"/ etc? FBaggins May 2012 #4

I suppose it makes a change from Mark Z Jacobson spam ... Nihil May 2012 #5

That added a lot to the discussion. Thanks Kolesar May 2012 #6

It added precisely the same amount as the post that it replied to ... Nihil May 2012 #7

^the "fat kid from Pee Wee's Big Adventure" defense Kolesar May 2012 #8

That might have been meaningful ... Nihil May 2012 #10

Facts are stubborn things nihil kristopher May 2012 #12

Facts are wonderful things Kristopher Nihil May 2012 #15

As I said, all you have to do is correct the record yourself kristopher May 2012 #16

And more: German Power Grids Increasingly Strained GliderGuider May 2012 #11

US power grids are also increasingly strained. kristopher May 2012 #13

Just pointing to what other knowledgeable people have written, kristopher. GliderGuider May 2012 #14

Costly but effective Franker65 Jun 2012 #17