New Energy Economy

Rare economic honesty regarding Canada’s green machine 0
- January 10, 2012
Sound familiar? fuel switching promise of green jobs that never materialize no cost-benefit analysis or business plans refusing to allow “cost-cutting alternatives that would have saved ratepayers at least $8-billion.” allowing the “green-industry lobby to dictate the structure of the province’s electricity sector in its favour.” “high level of fiscal negligence and abuse of process”
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Rare economic honesty regarding Canada's green machine 0
- January 10, 2012
Sound familiar? fuel switching promise of green jobs that never materialize no cost-benefit analysis or business plans refusing to allow “cost-cutting alternatives that would have saved ratepayers at least $8-billion.” allowing the “green-industry lobby to dictate the structure of the province’s electricity sector in its favour.” “high level of fiscal negligence and abuse of process”
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Golden eagles versus wind turbines 0
- January 6, 2012
Time for golden eagles to relocate? The West Butte Wind Project in Oregon is asking for “the first programmatic eagle take permit application that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has received…” USFWS just released a draft assessment in what it calls “the first analysis of such a permit that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Vestas stock gets blown away following bad news 0
- January 4, 2012
This morning’s market headlines out of Europe aren’t kind to Vestas Wind Systems. The Copenhagen based wind turbine company with a significant presence in Weld and Pueblo Counties saw its stock drop 16 percent by the end of trading to closing under $59 per share, reflecting a trend investors have suffered since the end of
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Market not keen on green energy stocks 0
- January 3, 2012
This article originally appeared in the Estes Park Trail-Gazette. Author Jon Nicholas discussed it in more detail on The Amy Oliver Show on News Talk 1310 KFKA. Vestas, Green Energy Sold Short By Jon Nicholas Colorado has become a leader in government subsidizing green jobs. A major beneficiary of those state and local subsidies has
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Finally some outrage over the New Energy Economy 0
- December 30, 2011
I may have underestimated the outrage over two recent Xcel Energy rate increase requests. The first, an attempt to recover the final $16.5 million in cost for Boulder’s Smart Grid City program. Ratepayers are not thrilled about paying for a Boulder project with massive cost overruns. Check out these comments: From Phil Carson, editor of
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