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Opinion Piece Warns "Gas Is Greener"

11:55 am in Business & Politics, fracking, government policy, wind power renewable energy by TreeHugger

desert tortoise photo Desert Tortoise. Unless we use more natural gas fired turbines, this poor creature may be driven to extinction by greenies favoring solar power. Image credit:Wikipedia The Carbon Gang is using familiar tactics to protect the fossil fuel-produced electricity market: warning investors and policy makers away from wind and solar power projects. A good example just appeared in the New York Times. As is typical, this one relies on the false choice, on cherry picked facts, and myopic 'back of the envelope' calculation. The Manhattan Institute's Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Google & Partners To Make 5-Billion Dollar Wind-To-Wire Investment Along US Mid-Atlantic Coast

5:10 pm in alternative energy, government policy, News, wind power renewable energy by TreeHugger

power lines photo High power transmission lines. Image credit: Naama's photo stream on Flickr Google and two unfamiliar sounding business partners have received a key first-approval for construction of a $5bn power transmission project, linking the landward power grid to several wind farms to be built off the US Mid-Atlantic coast. (The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has ruled the project can earn a 12.59% return on equity (ROE) - a bit less than the 13.58% requested.) The partners are Google, Good Energies and Read the full story on TreeHugger

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