The House Ways & Means Committee took a short break from their frantic attempts to spackle over the disaster that is the estimated 20 percent plus property tax increase – an “unintended consequence” of previous legislative fiscal incompetence and/or indifference about what things cost – with a briefing on H.289, An act relating to the renewable energy standard.
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VT Energy Policy: Saving the Planet, or Feathering Nests?
The Renewable Energy Standard Group Committee met again on October 25 to hash out what next year’s laws regarding energy policy will be, and again, utilities managers questioned the ulterior motives behind how some of the proposals seem to be favoring certain actors. And this crony favoritism, they say, will come not just at greater … Read more
Are Some on the Left Realizing VT Climate Policy Is a Useless Waste?
A couple of left-wing columnists recently penned articles lamenting the fact that Montpelier keeps flooding every decade or so, yet local and state governments don’t do anything about it and aren’t prepared for it when it happens. A keen observation.
As If “Renewable Energy” Isn’t Already Blowing Itself Up?
Heh! Reader Bruce sent this in. Not exactly as showy as the Bridges or the Buildings but I find it ironic that while we are hearing calls for “More! More!”, they are taking them down. For what reason, I don’t know: they stopped working, too expensive to maintain, putting up new ones? Who know – … Read more
Data Point – Renewable Energy is Still a Negligible Power Source
Go ahead – it’s there….down at the very bottom. For all of the beaming faces of the Eco-Socialists who keep stating that renewable power is growing by leaps and bounds (using a percentage basis), well, 100% of barely anything is still… barely anything.
Give Michael Moore’s ‘The Planet of the Humans’ a chance
We all want a clean, healthy environment. We all want inexpensive and reliable energy, from whatever source, that enables us to prosper, have a healthy environment, and live healthy lives. And, we want these for ourselves and future generations.
The Democrats’ “Economy That Works For All” Hoax
This: To say that we need to “build an economy that works for all” implies that the current economy is not. Not only is there no evidence to support such a claim, all the data and facts belie the claim: As the chart shows, everybody’s wages have gone up under Trump, but the … Read more
NH Climbs State Business Tax Climate Ladder
New Hampshire climbed one spot in the annual Tax Foundation report on State Business Tax Climate, from seventh overall to sixth in the nation. Though property taxes, unemployment taxes, and corporate taxes (still) bog us down, our lack of a personal income tax and sales tax keep us in the top ten. The employer tax … Read more
50 years after start of anti-Seabrook protests, a turn toward nuclear power
By Andrew Cline, Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy If San Francisco tech bro hipsters invented a carbon-free way to generate power 24/7, they would be hailed as saviors of the planet. Though they might yet come up with some use for a venti Matcha Green Tea Frappuccino, the energy technology in question predates them … Read more
HB580 – Moratorium on Windmills
I went up to Skip’s Gun shop on Saturday to conduct some business and as always, Skip and I spent a few moments talking politics and he mentioned that a bill that he is the prime sponsor on is coming up for hearing tomorrow. This normally would be taking place in one of the usual hearing rooms but given the outcry of people, especially in Grafton County where foreign companies are trying to put up multi-million dollar windmills, the hearing has been shifted to the Hall of Representatives at 1pm (again, tomorrow!). Several hundred people are expected to attend.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT establishing moratoriums on wind turbine plants and electric transmission line projects.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Moratoriums; Wind Turbine Plants; Electric Transmission Line Projects. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, there are hereby established moratoriums on the construction of wind turbine plants and electric transmission line projects in the state of New Hampshire until the state issues a comprehensive energy plan. The site evaluation committee, established in RSA 162-H:3, shall issue no certificates for wind turbine plants and electric transmission line projects under RSA 162-H while such moratoriums are in effect.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Think of this, however; the local community in which they will be built is probably rubbing their hands in glee – ” look at all that new property tax revenue!”. But what is the downside? I can think of one, certainly!