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MacDonald: Ben & Jerry’s Latest Energy Virtue Signal?

June 3, 2025 Steve MacDonald

One of the excuses the Climate Cult makes for ignoring the significant emissions from biomass plants is that, because it is carbon captured by plants, it makes it renewable. Plants capture CO2, so it’s okay to burn them and emit whatever into wherever. This is a cop out. Every fuel on the planet, except nuclear, … Read more

A Laugh Out Loud Funny Biomass Boondoggle Problem in Vermont

October 17, 2024October 17, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The hippies took Vermont over years ago, and the years of “recreational” drug use have finally shown up in their political offspring. I’m not laying claim or exclusive rights to the discovery. There are reams of evidence on these and like-minded pages, covering years, that make the case, but I think this rises to the … Read more

Bradley’s Burgess Biomass Boondoggle is Back in the News

October 31, 2023 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and I agree on several things. Lowering taxes (or eliminating them) is good. Shoring up protections for the right to self-defense is critical. And refusing to fund Berlin’s Burgess Biomass boondoggle was the right thing to do.

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It Would Cost NH at Least 135 million Less to Pay Burgess Biomass Workers to do Nothing Than to Renew the Planned Subsidy

August 22, 2023June 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

We’ve written about the high cost of NH Biomass energy and the redistribution math that costs ratepayers millions. Well, the Governor has a new bill on his desk that would sweeten the deal, but if this is about jobs, it would cost ratepayers less to pay the workers to do nothing.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (03/23/23)?

March 24, 2023 Judy Aron

We learned that it was a very disappointing day for House Republicans and we lost many good bills either to Inexpedient To Legislate (ITL) or to the Table, and had some really bad bills move onto the Senate. House Democrats had many wins. Again, numbers matter.

Planet of the Humans: The Greed New Deal

September 7, 2022 Aaron Warner

Michael Moore is no darling of right-wing or conservative politics. In fact, he’s likely among the most despised for his persistent attacks on conservatives from his mostly far-Left stances. Which is why it was pleasantly surprising to see him as the executive producer of a documentary that takes a hard look at the illusion of … Read more

Senator “Jeb” (Yet Again) Unleashes his Inner-Democrat

March 8, 2020 Ed Mosca

This: Net metering is a euphemism for forcing electricity providers to purchase excess electricity generated by Solar at the retail rate (not the lower rate that it would cost the electricity provider to produce the electricity itself). Solar … and other so-called “renewable” energy … are NOT alternatives to fossil fuels. At this point in … Read more

New Hampshire Democrats Attack Republicans for Opposing Corporate Welfare

November 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Democrats have gotten another stick up their backsides. I have no idea how they found the room, but they did. And from an unusual, at least rhetorically speaking, source. They are upset that Republicans will not support an out-of-state corporate welfare scheme.

Shaheen, Hassan, Kuster, and Pappas, Beg the Feds to Screw You Over

November 3, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Nothing says we love job creators and low-income working families like a federal intervention to rob them of their earnings. But guess what? That’s what’s New Hampshire’s Democrat congressional delegation just did.

Has Sen. Shaheen Done More for Natural Gas in Ukraine Than in New Hampshire?

August 31, 2022October 26, 2019 Steve MacDonald

There are plenty of ways to lower carbon dioxide emissions if that’s your thing. It’s Jeanne Shaheen’s thing. But what has she done to help New Hampshire? When it comes to cleaner-burning natural gas, little to nothing.

Everything Gets Political When You Ask Politicians for a Bailout – Plus Pandering Dan Feltes

October 20, 2019October 20, 2019 Skip

The biomass “subsidy by govt induced higher electrical rates” issue just won’t go away. The Union Leader has yet another piece lamenting that companies aren’t getting corporate welfare. Landowners are angry that the government won’t help their profits or politics for a new protected class (“unemployed biomass workers”).

As Predicted, Busy-Body NH Legislators Killed Off Biomass Energy in the Granite State

September 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The biomass power debate is virtually ended in New Hampshire. This past week federal regulators declared the NH law to force power companies to buy electricity from wood-burning plants, illegal. Yesterday the plants dropped their court case.

Federal Regulators Save New Hampshire Ratepayers from Biomass-Whooping

October 20, 2019September 23, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire’s Biomass mess is winding down. The Legislature refused to override the governor’s veto on a timber-industry sop. And federal Regulators declared the original law whose veto was overridden invalid. Ratepayers should be cheering.

NH State Senator Jeb Bradley: Boo hoo. Live by the lie, die by the lie.

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Skip

Karma (reformatted, emphasis mine): [Bradley] Burned by Sierra Club: “Some supporters of the wood-burning power plants are very upset at the New Hampshire Sierra Club.”

Gov Sununu votes for the Free Market, NH State Senators Guida and Starr – Not so Much

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 Skip

In essence, that’s what both Bob Guida and David Starr are saying in this report on HB183. Yet they are claiming that they are Republicans in affiliation – and holding the second-highest elected office in NH (being State Senators).

Boom! Boom! Out Go the Lights! (If We Don’t Smarten Up)

July 19, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The New Hampshire State Supreme Court has sided with the Site Evaluation Committee’s rejection of Northern Pass. If the committee has that authority under law, then that’s the right call. But while some factions are cheering, this is indicative of a serious issue.

NH Senate Predictably Votes to Kill Productive Jobs to Save Unproductive Jobs

May 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Most of the North Country in New Hampshire is between 3 and 5% unemployment. Without the ‘city’ of Berlin dragging them down at 4.9%, the regional average would be between 3-4%. Not that bad. But this, according to the NH Senate, is an employment crisis.