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Facebook doodlings – Obama doctrine of Determined Weakness (as applied to energy)

September 26, 2018January 2, 2012 Skip

From almost a year ago: Oil is energy. No oil, no energy. No energy, no work. No work, no economy. No economy, we’re no longer the lone Superpower. Presto. Determined Weakness

Is President Obama a “ruthless, uncaring S.O.B.”?

September 26, 2018December 30, 2011 Don

To the Editor: Henry Osmer objects to calling our President a “ruthless, uncaring s.o.b.”. I would not call him that, but I wonder about others. If my brother were a multi-millionaire but wouldn’t help me when I live in a hut on $20 per month, how caring might I consider my brother? If I had … Read more

“Not Our Fault, ” Says PSNH CEO Gary Long

September 26, 2018December 2, 2011 Rick Olson

“An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.” —Bo Bennett

Wednesday, Public Service of New Hampshire President Gary Long went before The Governor and Executive Council and members of the Public Utilities Commission and shamelessly defended PSNH’s dismal response to the Halloween Snow storm that left thousands without power.

As conveyed in the Union Leader story yesterday, Long blamed the weather and trees, not PSNH and told the council he was, “quite proud of PSNH’s tremendous efforts,” calling the storm response “a success story.” Long took no responsibility. He even went so far as to blame customers, saying that all of the outages were caused by trees, most of which are were, outside the trim zone, fingering state laws for he says makes it hard to trim the trees. He blamed the rate payer for, “not being adequately prepared.”

Dispatch from AFP’s “Defending the American Dream” #6 – The job crushing EPA

September 26, 2018November 4, 2011 Skip

Rep Mike Pompeo, moderator Alan Cobb of AFP, Chris Horner of CEI, Kathleen Hartnett White of TX PPF, Ann McElhinney. Came in on the end of Rep Pompeo’s speech, unfortunately. Seems like he’s well informed on free market energy policy. Kathleen Hartnett White had lots of good info, but a bit dry. Find more here: … Read more

Granite Wind Update. Podesta, Another Major Dem Donor, And More…

September 26, 2018October 19, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Brookfield Renewable, Granite Wind, Freshet Wind, Wanger Forrest Management and Wagner Wind Energy, all tied to Obama energy hand outs, wealthy left wing donors and investors, and who knows what else we may find.

NH Wind Farm Project Comes With Inside Deal Making?

September 26, 2018October 13, 2011 Steve MacDonald

NH Wind and Jeanne Shaheen Kickbacks There is a major Wind farm project underway in Coos county. The principle players are GraniteWind, which is owned by Brookfield Renewable Power and a company called Freshet Wind Energy. (more on them in a moment)

Brookfield has gotten press recently because Brookfield Properties (same company) owns Zucotti Park where the #OWS hippies are hanging out. Mayor Bloomberg girlfriend sits on Brookfield’s board, and George Soros and some other big Democrat Donors are heavily invested in Brookfield, which has just received a $168 million dollar Federal Green energy loan for the New Hampshire Wind farm project courtesy of the US Department of Energy, which was lobbied by the firm run by Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

Just about everyone is short stroking that set of circumstances, and it is far too convenient to seem like a random coincidence, but there is a New Hampshire connection that is far more interesting if you just take the time to dig a little bit deeper.

Laying Some Pipe

September 26, 2018August 15, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The Democrat controlled Senate had the opportunity to create jobs, generate growth, add some tax revenue, and did I say create jobs? But Harry Reid couldn’t bring himself to get the Keystone XL Pipeline project approved before the recess.

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Jeanne Shaheen’s Sticky Situation

January 25, 2026June 12, 2011 Steve MacDonald

In the “stupid things said by former governors of New Hampshire who have become US Senator’s category,” Jeanne Shaheen (Greene Shaheen) dominates. As another hack of the environmental movement she has said some incredibly stupid things and intimated plenty of others, forever making us proud.

Data Point – Energy Usage in the US

September 26, 2018May 30, 2011 Skip

Click on the image for a larger size: (H/T: Lawrence Livermore National Labs)

Northern Pass: Still Ignoring the Overarching Reason for Opposition

September 26, 2018May 26, 2011 Rick Olson

“The only people who support the use of eminent domain for private development are cities that use it, developers and businesses that benefit from it and planners who plan it. Everyone else hates it.” – Dana Berliner, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice Yesterday’s Union Leader featured, Another View of Why New Hampshire should be open … Read more

Speculate This Jeanne Shaheen

September 26, 2018April 26, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Back in 2007 when Jeanne Shaheen was demagoging rising gas prices for political points, she insisted it was evil oil speculators who were manipulating the price to get rich off hardworking Americans. But then prices went down, Shaheen got her Obama bump and became a Senator, and she stopped picking on those imaginary speculators. But … Read more

Obama Gas – Does He Own This Too?

September 30, 2019April 25, 2011 Steve MacDonald

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Candidate Obama Bullish on Oil?

September 26, 2018March 30, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The Financial Times reports (free subscription) that the Obama White House is planning to call on oil companies to increase domestic production. In another Obama speech, today, the new plan is expected to focus on Oil, responsible natural gas, and a hot button for the left–when they claim to be in favor of drilling–forcing oil companies to use idle leases.

Picture of the Day 3-27-11

September 26, 2018March 27, 2011 Steve MacDonald

You think that THIS has something to do with…

September 26, 2018March 17, 2011 Skip

…that? Energy is the ability to work. I keep hearing all the time that we have to go clean, go green. Problem is, all of these energy sources have their own problems, least of which that they are so bad at what they do, nobody would be involved with them without massive government subsidies. Take … Read more

Obama – kinky

September 26, 2018March 15, 2011 Skip

Obama’s energy policy: After all, he declares that it is GOOD for us! While Rahm may now be ensconced at another money loosing proposition (new mayor, Chicago), will his words "Never waste a crisis" ever leave the Obama Administration? (H/T: Michael Ramirez)

Northern Pass: Redux Of 1970’s Pope County Michigan

September 26, 2018March 10, 2011 Rick Olson

Northern Pass wants to build a build a 180-mile power line corridor through 44 Granite State Communities from as far North as Pittsburg down to Deerfield.

House Bill 648, “An act relative to eminent domain petitions by public utilities” brought 250 supporters, roughly 170 of which are property owners located on the proposed or alternative route of the project. According to the Bill’s analysis section, the bill seeks to, “Prohibit public utilities from petitioning for permission to take private land or property rights for the construction or operation of a private large scale transmission line.” The bill drew overwhelming support by those who fear their land might be taken from them or rendered worthless.

Such fears are not without precedent. This fight is not a new fight. This very situation played out in Minnesota in the early 1970’s where farmers waged a fight against big power companies taking farmland by eminent domain. The farmers ultimately lost this fight. This account is detailed in the book Powerline: the first battle of America’s energy war, written by the late Senator Paul D. Wellstone and Barry M. Casper (Forward in 2003 by lefty Senator Tom Harkin). Aside from the book being written by a couple of liberal progressives, the book is otherwise instructive in the plight of these farmers against Big Power.

Arguments against the project range from blighting the landscape and disparately affecting the tourism industry to devaluation of land have been leveled. those are all reasonable. But there is one component given very little attention in the discussion here.

Big Power will nearly always make an attractive financial offer to you for a utility easement over your land. But what few really comprehend what happens after such an easement is given by a landowner. Read the account of a Fond-du-Lac Wisconsin Farmer that granted a power company a lease to install a wind turbine on his farm land.

“My toilets don’t work in my house and I blame you…”

September 26, 2018March 10, 2011

US Senator Rand Paul continues to blaze an exciting yet "down to earth" path in that so-called "august" body. Here, during an Energy Committee hearing on consumer choice, he hoists an Obama Administration apparatchik on her own "pro choice" petard: "You restrict my purchases. You don’t care about MY choices… You don’t … Read more

It is (again!) time to get serious about energy

September 26, 2018March 8, 2011

With gasoline prices rapidly climbing back to the $4.00 a gallon level, it is time to once again plead with our representatives in Washington to show the much needed leadership on the issue of energy policy. In the just completed election cycle, there was far too little attention paid to this critical economic and national security issue. As recent events have shown, we have left our economy hostage to the old boom bust cycle of the petroleum markets. At the same time, we have allowed ourselves to become hyper dependent on events in the Middle East and a number of other (usually highly unstable) underdeveloped countries around the world.

The cost and the risks of finding new oil are going up every day. We had a very dramatic display of this last year with the Deepwater Horizon Well in the Gulf of Mexico. That well, which caused at least $20 billion worth if damage, was in waters “only” one mile deep. Other rigs are currently drilling “ultra-deep water” wells that go several miles down. We are clearly having to take bigger and bigger risks to get to additional reserves and those risks will surely come back to haunt us, just as we are seeing today. It seems we have already forgotten the lessons of that terrible experience.

It is not that we do not have other options – we certainly…