All Posts Tagged With: "Energy and the Environment"
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish — Doing Better on Climate Change
The Boxer-Lieberman-Warner (S 2191) cap-and-trade bill died a death Friday when it couldn’t get past a Republican filibuster.The bill would have created a carbon cap and trade emissions market that would have required power plants, refineries and factories to pay for the privileges of polluting the environment and contributing to global warming. This bill [...]
9Jun2008 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
Liberalgeek Reporting from the SEU Meeting
I was able to make it to the SEU meeting today to see where this task force is going. Charlie Copeland was not in attendance, but there was no problem getting a quorum this time. It was better attended than the previous one in terms of the public as well. There were about 25 people [...]
29May2008 | liberalgeek | 16 comments | Continued
Here’s What You Can Do To Help Get The BWW Deal Done
I have updated the Choose Wind page to reflect where we are and what we need to do to push this process along. You can make a difference here. Please review the page and call your Senator and pass the information along to your friends so that they can call.
We are down to just a [...]
Copeland Vows to Stop Attending SEU Meetings
I must have hit a nerve with my post earlier. Charlie Copeland dropped me an email to fill me in on his stance after he spoke to Tyler Nixon.
I was unaware of the expiration of the SEU oversight board. I spoke with Tyler Nixon about it earlier today, and I will no longer attend [...]
SEU Oversight Board Authority Expired
There was some question around here last week about whether or not the SEU was acting within the law that created them. There was an allegation that their term had expired per statute. Here is the pertinent part of the law:
There is hereby created the SEU Oversight Board which shall, from passage of [...]
SEU Oversight Board Authority Memo
As promised, Here is a copy of the opinion that the SEU attorney, Frank Murphy drew up at the request of the board (or probably just McDowell). SEU Authority Memo.
This document was handed out to most attendees yesterday. Let me know what you think. And don’t forget that Jason will be speaking at the PDD [...]
Report from the SEU Meeting
Things are quiet here at work this week, so I had some time to make it out to the SEU meeting at the Buena Vista Conference Center. I have never been to one of these sorts of meetings before, so I was a bit tentative. Luckily, there were some pretty smart and experienced [...]
5May2008 | liberalgeek | 30 comments | Continued
Comment Rescue: Truth Teller Loves Him Some Pandering
One of our new commenters, Truth Teller, had a gem in the Hillary-pandering post a few days ago.
I noticed that Obama knocked her plan but failed to tell us what his plan. Another great speech but no solutions
I love how Truthy wants us to believe that Hillary is all making a proposal that needs to [...]
LiberalGeek Question of the Day
With all apologies to Donviti, I have a question. Can we all agree that Ethanol is a failure and that we need to bail out on it before we tar all alternative energies as bad ideas?
I believe that we make mistakes. Ethanol is one of them and the sooner we cut bait on it, the [...]
I Wish Al Gore Had Been Appointed President
Al Gore has a new slideshow on climate change. He has some stunning updates to his Inconvenient Truth. It is a 28 minute video, but it is chock full of good data and some pretty funny commentary. Even better, it can be downloaded and there is even an iPod ready download.
9Apr2008 | liberalgeek | 12 comments | Continued
Gerald Hocker Takes a Page Out of the Bush/Cheney Playbook
Gerald Hocker apparently doesn’t like that Maria Evans called him out on being so wrong about wind power. He has a guest post up on WGMD’s blog (of all places). The strategy appears to be to throw out as much BS as possible, in hopes of people hearing it so much that they [...]
19Mar2008 | liberalgeek | 26 comments | Continued
Breaking: Tony Deluca on Delmarva Gravy Train
Dana has learned that the real force behind the “stall to kill” wind power hearings is DeLuca. Harris McDowell is just his water carrier.
Delaware Watch has learned that Delaware State Senate Majority Leader Tony DeLuca has been the driving force behind the Delaware State
Senate’s attempt to stall the Public Service Commission’s (PCC) approval of [...]
Wanna Run Against Harris McDowell?
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You’re welcome.
More to come for Charlie Copeland and Thurman Adams.
Windpower = Jobs
My friend anon wrote me and pointed out a great article about windpower jobs. The bottom line of the article is that Windpower techs are in great demand and that wind companies are literally being banned from training classrooms because they are offering the students jobs before they graduate.
What does this mean to Delaware? It [...]
UD Gets Good Press for Battery Technology
I saw a post on one of my geek websites this AM extolling the virtues of a project at UD to use electric cars to feed back into the grid. The official windfarm professor of DelawareLiberal, Willett Kempton is the project lead.
10Dec2007 | liberalgeek | 2 comments | Continued
Good Deed or Are We Trying to Infect Haiti?
I just came across this article at the Washington Times. Delaware is exporting firewood to Haiti in an effort to stem deforestation in the Caribbean nation. Sound like a good deed, eh?
Here’s the problem: most states on the east coast have started to put some strict limits on firewood crossing state lines to prevent the [...]
Off-shore Windpower for Ships?
I just came across this interesting little story. It is about a company that is selling giant kites that will be used to augment the propulsion of trans-oceanic freighters. Interestingly, one of the first shipments it delivers will be wind turbine parts. It should reduce fuel consumption by 50% while conditions are optimal.
26Nov2007 | liberalgeek | 3 comments | Continued
Patriot Day: Global Warming is Good For You
So I’ve been hearing this buzzing around the interwebs about the world getting hotter or some such thing. I think some people are just too “in love” with the cold. Let’s face it, in the winter it gets cold. Who needs that? How cool will it be to go to the beach in January and [...]
19Sep2007 | liberalgeek | 2 comments | Continued
Wonky Wednesday: Let’s Get Recycling Done This Week
The General Assembly has before it a bill, House Substitute 1 to House Bill 146, that would create a meaningful statewide recycling program in Delaware. A competing bill, HB 159, while not as far reaching, would still go a long way to creating the infrastructure for statewide recycling. While either would be good for Delaware, the [...]
27Jun2007 | tommywonk | 7 comments | Continued
TommyWonk to Talk Energy on WDEL Today
I’ve been invited to talk about the latest developments in the energy saga with Allan Loudell on WDEL, 1150 AM, at 12:14. As noted yesterday, Delmarva Power filed an appeal of the Public Service Commission’s decision directing the company to open negotiations to bring wind power to Delaware.
22Jun2007 | tommywonk | 2 comments | Continued
Gee, why does congress get low approval ratings?
Earlier in the week, the Senate rejected additions to the bill that would have pumped billions of federal dollars into efforts to ramp up production of a coal-based fuel for cars and trucks, which proponents had called an important alternative to petroleum. Additionally, Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) failed to win approval for a proposal [...]
22Jun2007 | Donvictimiti | 7 comments | Continued
An analysis of Cherry-Picked Emissions Data
This morning I was listening to a podcast of Left, Right and Center and I heard the guy on the right (guest commentator Clarke Judge of the White House Writers Group) talking about how well the US has done in limiting our greenhouse gases. He even claimed that we had outperformed the EU in that [...]
4Jun2007 | liberalgeek | 3 comments | Continued
Windpower for your home? It might be closer than you think
Advances in design, legislative support and “net metering” are turning the idea of homebased wind power into a reality.
From the Mother Earth News:
For many, home energy costs recently have increased by 50 percent (or more), motivating a growing number of people to look for alternatives. The proliferation of net metering laws, in about 40 states, [...]
Wonky Wednesday: Delaware Chooses Wind
It’s doubtful that the Public Service Commission has ever generated more interest and excitement than it has with yesterday’s decision to order Delmarva Power to begin negotiating with Bluewater Wind. The PSC’s order, which should be available online tomorrow, also directs DPL to negotiate with Conectiv and NRG for a natural gas backup facility. A [...]
23May2007 | tommywonk | 2 comments | Continued
NYC Taxis Go Green
Michael Bloomberg has decided that New York should go green. By 2012, all 13,000 NYC taxis will be hybrids. This is the sort of thing that will make Michael Bloomberg a viable 3rd party candidate in 2008. Oh and he has set aside a billion (with a B) dollars for the potential campaign. He makes [...]
22May2007 | liberalgeek | 8 comments | ContinuedFOLLOW DL
