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Texas Acts to Block Chinese Owned Industrial Wind Power Facility near a Military Base

  By Kenneth Artz, Heartland Environment and Climate News   The Texas legislature took steps to stop a massive Chinese-owned industrial wind facility from being built near Laughlin Air Force base in southwest Texas.   The Blue Hills Wind development attracted attention because its developer, GH America Energy, is the U.S. subsidiary of the Chinese […]

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South Dakota Rocked Again as a Wind Turbine Plant Shuts Its Doors

By Selena Zito, Heartland   John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice of jobs either in the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians.   That was then. Now, a wind […]

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The European Green Deal will cause more harm than good

    By Mohamed Moutii, The Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues   In the last European elections, the so-called green parties won a record number of seats and became the fourth largest bloc in the European parliament. The Greens are now seen as pivotal political allies for passing EU legislation.   Not surprisingly, […]

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Roll out Renewables before Biden’s Blackouts Roll in

      ByOliver McPherson-Smith. American Consumer Institute    Commuters in California will be familiar with radio ads that ask them to ration electricity when they get home from work. The campaign begs consumers to power down between 4 pm and 9 pm, when renewable energy generation dips and utilities struggle to power the grid. […]

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Hawai’ians Are Turning on Offshore Wind

    By Duggan Flanakin, Heartland   Three offshore wind projects that have lain dormant since 2015 are being revived after President Joe Biden called for the nation to produce 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.   Hawai’ians are proving less than enthusiastic. Despite a state mandate requiring that all of Hawai’i’s electricity […]