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20130108 Georgia Power will close 15 more coal, oil and gas plants, reducing energy production by 2 trillion watts due to new EPA standards it cannot afford. Total closures over the past few years now total about 40 trillion watts.

20120708 Pennsylvania: A handful of environmentalists block access to oil field.

20120618 Canada: Canadians to invest in more hydropower, which they consider to be a desirable and renewable energy source.

20120613 Overruling the State Department, Obama’s EPA blocked the Keystone pipeline project, and thus the ability to effectively distribute the tremendous oils reserves to be found in the U.S. Bakkan Oil Reserves.

►20120118 California’s Public Utilities Commission voted to allow utility companies to shut off power to landowners’ homes and businesses where disputes exist.

20111229 BLM proposes “energy development zones” for public lands.

►20111213 Who blew up the bridge to the future? So-called progressives environmentalists are now attacking natural gas. They don’t like hydropower, coal, or oil either, and are increasingly turning against wind power because of the havoc the windmills wreak on wildlife. Is there any practical energy source they do like? Are they actually environmentalists, or subversives wearing green coats over their red shirts determined to overthrow America?

20111119 Great Britain: Wind farms are useless, says the Duke of Edinburgh.

20111117 Washington state: Seabird stops wind farm.

20111116 Texas: Lizard could endanger oil & gas production in Texas, and thereby the national economic and jobs outlook.

20111116 Natural gas: Obama and Salazar move to stifle development of natural gas energy resources. Is there any form of energy they don’t hate?

20111115 Pennsylvania: “the U.S. government is obstructing legitimate and legal gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest ...”

20111115 Ohio: Forest Service halts oil drilling in SE Ohio.

►Nov 13, 2011 In the rush to grow solar energy sources, utility companies are paying $ billions over market value to purchase projects. “In the long run, this harms the state’s efforts to achieve greenhouse gas reductions because it will result in unnecessarily higher rates and people are going to get rate shock.” Enquiring minds must wonder: Who are the beneficiaries of all that money?

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