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In regions like the South, the potential for renewable energy abounds. That isn't going over well with fossil fuel interests.
E.A. Crunden
Apr 15, 2019, 8:00 am
As the cost of renewable energy drops and its popularity rises around the country, Republican lawmakers in several key states are ratcheting up their attacks on wind power.
Data shows that renewable alternatives to energy sources like coal are increasingly cheaper, in addition to helping offset greenhouse gas emissions. But as they continue to gain prominence, power sources like wind are becoming a popular target for those with a vested interest in fossil fuels. Now, opponents are using everything from national security arguments to targeting tax incentives in order to hobble wind power.
Its the inevitability of change. [The] renewable industry is creating jobs, bringing money into the communities
it just gets harder and harder to justify why we shouldnt be doing them, said Molly Diggins, state director for the Sierra Clubs North Carolina chapter, in an interview with ThinkProgress.
North Carolina is one of several states in which lawmakers are pushing new proposals to undercut wind energy. State Sen. Harry Brown (R) has long positioned himself as a wind power opponent and this legislative session he is pushing Senate Bill 377, the Military Base Protection Act.
https://thinkprogress.org/renewables-wind-texas-north-carolina-attacks-4c09b565ae22/
manor321
(3,344 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If Republicans spent a tenth of their time on good governance as they do on cooking up misleading names for their atrocious legislation, the country would be considerably better off.
The bill argues that wind farms pose a national security risk and uses Department of Defense maps to essentially outlaw wind farms built on land within 100 miles of the states coast...
But the military already has veto power over any projects that are deemed a national security risk. North Carolinas Amazon Wind Farm, the first large-scale wind farm in the state, went through years of review and permitting studies, in addition to coordinating with the U.S. Navy and Department of Defense...
Tarc
(10,476 posts)If there's money to be made in a diversifying energy market, why not jump in and benefit?
underpants
(182,819 posts)Back in the early 90s the big beer companies started gobbling up microbreweries. Not to run them out but to make money off them because THEY ARE IN THE BEER BUSINESS.
Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)their strategy is to fight renewables as long as possible to allow them to maximize final profits off of fossils while they maneuver to be the primary controllers of renewable energy stocks.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)If the R's have such a intense need to attack renewable energy because if they don't they fear their whole climate change denial ecosystem will fall in around them?
dawg
(10,624 posts)The epitome of delusion.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)of an Air Force Base it could be an annoyance.