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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.

Bernie Sanders notes:  The Supreme Court shamefully chose to protect the profits of the fossil fuel industry today over the future of our planet. Our job: Rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels like fracked natural gas and create millions of jobs in sustainable energy.

Obviously, this comes as a disappointment, but in truth, we (at least I) don’t know the law surrounding this case.  I want to see environmental responsibility, but even Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the 7 – 2 majority, so I’m sure the defendant (Dominion Energy) had a good case.

Dominion went on to make the obligatory bs comment “Today’s decision is an affirmation for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and communities across our region that are depending on it for jobs, economic growth and clean energy,” Dominion said in a statement.  As if pipelines and clean energy somehow coexist.  As if the transition to renewable energy wouldn’t result in far more jobs.

(Pictured: The Trans-Alaskan Pipeline)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I like this. Not only is this right from a humanitarian perspective, but who wants to see Trump removed for health reasons?

He needs to be removed (and imprisoned) because he’s a sociopathic criminal; that’s the only way to fully repudiate him and what he stands for.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If I didn’t live on a small cul de sac where no one would see it, I’d be sporting this little beauty out on my front yard.

Some people knew that we were going full Orwellian before Trump was sworn in, but the rest of us figured it out when Shawn Spicer took to the TV cameras and announced to the world’s amazement that Trump’s inauguration was the largest in history, defying straightforward photographic evidence.  This was quickly followed by the admonition: “What you’re seeing isn’t what’s really happening,” and then by the suggestion that there are “alternative facts.”

If we fail to make all this psychosis disappear in November, we will soon start to be taught by the Ministry of Truth that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and that ignorance is strength.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

From this article: Alabama Power to Increase Fossil Fuel Use, Delays Solar Request:

Alabama regulators voted today to give the go-ahead to Alabama Power Company’s request to add almost 2 million megawatts of energy from natural gas sources to its capacity to generate electricity. The plan, proposed last year, would include a new 726-megawatt gas unit at its Plant Barry near Mobile. The commission also voted to delay consideration of Alabama Power’s additional request to add 400 megawatts in solar-plus-storage generation to its inventory.

When the U.S. can finally get its attention off the pandemic and its struggle with racist policing, we may want to consider once again what we’re doing to decarbonize our energy.

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

“Hey parents! Get this fun and free patriotic bundle from Mike Huckabee’s “Kids (sic) Guide to the Presidential Election” while supplies last!”

Sounds good to me.  Who wouldn’t like a “patriotic bundle” for our kids?

I’m sure there are robust sections on the many techniques used to achieve voter suppression, gerrymandering, favors to rich donors, dismantling the federal government to please libertarian billionaires, and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, granting corporations the power to control the outcomes of our elections.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s another person echoing the point I made the other day about Trump: he’s standing on an island that’s getting smaller with each passing day, as the seas are rising around him.

Yes, he has a hardcore base that will never be completely extinguished, and yes, his fiery rhetoric has them at the boiling point, but essentially everyone outside that base has either already left town or is packing his bags.

Just as the contents of a flushed toilet spin faster as they near the drain, look for the process to accelerate going forward.  Among the many aspects of Trump’s psychopathology is his inability to change his mind, and his compulsion to further escalate already-nasty situations.  

For some reason that we’ll probably never understand, these points of his personality, which are almost always detrimental in others, have served him well over the years.  But they’ve failed him now, and at this point he finds himself at the end of the line.

Americans are angry at what they see, and they have every reason to be terrified of the prospect of an unhinged and desperate man, still wielding the awesome power of the U.S. president.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I have to love Kelly’s remarks.  Really?  We have to be more careful about who (sic) we elect?

We need to apply a filter? Character matters?

It’s not good enough to vote for someone who hates the same people we do?

Never looked at it that way.

I guess we should have thought about that in 2016.

Too late now, but maybe, if it’s not too radical a concept, we can think about this for 2020.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This from David Frum, political commentator, speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

What he said here is true, of course; it’s very unusual for Trump not to double down on whatever stand he’s made, regardless of how unsupportable.

This time, however, it seems an adviser he trusts must have said something like: (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Some guys never cry, but I’m not one of them.

I would find it impossible to get through this minute-long video without tears welling up in my eyes.

I especially love the guy with the bullhorn: “This is America.”

This is why Trump will fail: all attempts to oppress people eventually come crashing down, because most people have compassion for one another, that, sooner or later, proves to be an unbeatable force.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Such a sad day.

Is there any aspect of our moral lives that Trump hasn’t reduced to rubble?

As a pacifist, I wish young people weren’t doing this with their lives, but I have to say that I feel very sorry for them today.

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