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Weld County has Saudis running scared 0
- November 22, 2011
In the state that claims the New Energy Economy, it isn’t renewable energy that has Middle East oil suppliers worried about lack of U.S. demand. Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research, told Amy Oliver in an interview on KFKA that the recent announcement (Anadarko Petroleum) of up to
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NREL: Energy Sec Chu’s laughable statement on renewables 0
- November 21, 2011
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu toured the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden on Friday. Fresh from his Thursday testimony on the Solyndra scandal before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Chu continued to touted the cost effectiveness of renewables despite millions of taxpayer dollars lost on failed investments. The NREL
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Get rid of renewable mandates and solar subsidies 0
- November 11, 2011
This column appeared originally on Townhall.com End stupid energy policy: Get rid of solar subsidies and renewable mandates By Amy Oliver Cooke and Michael Sandoval If lawmakers really cared about consumers, they would ditch expensive renewable energy mandates that require a subsidized market for resources that are not practical on a large scale. It’s a
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Help restore sanity to energy policy…vote NO 0
- November 9, 2011
The Economist is running an unscientific poll on whether or not government should continue to subsidize renewable energy. Wouldn’t it be fun to see free market energy policy trump solar subsidies? On the “con” side, which happens to be the side of science and reason, is Robert L. Bradley, Jr. of the Institute for Energy
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Congressman Coffman addresses "Rare Earths"0
- November 9, 2011
Congressman Mike Coffman (R-Colorado) announced today that he created a Congressional caucus to address the growing problem of China’s control over rare earth elements and “re-establishing domestic supply chain” of the must-have minerals. In a press release, Coffman explained: With the establishment of this caucus, I am confident we will be able to build awareness
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Too much supply means dark days for solar panel manufacturers 0
- November 9, 2011
Another solar panel manufacturer is laying off employees because current global supply of solar panels far exceeds demand. Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) is temporarily suspending production of “Uni-Solar,” a thin filmed solar laminate, and furloughing 140 workers according to a report in the Detroit News. The two Uni-Solar production plants are located in a “tax-free
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