Posted on 07/27/2016 7:07:55 AM PDT by MichCapCon
The Sierra Club environmental organization opposes the three sources of energy responsible for 91 percent of the electricity generated in Michigan. It has been outspoken in its stance against the use of natural gas, coal and nuclear power to generate electricity for Michigan households and businesses.
Michigan generates 32 percent of its electricity by burning coal and another 32 percent comes from nuclear power plants. Natural gas accounts for another 27 percent of electricity generation. Wind and solar account for less than 7 percent of net electricity generation in this state.
“The Sierra Club opposes, or is pushing to phase out, over 90 percent of the energy resources that we depend on for our lives and well-being,” said Jason Hayes, the director of environmental policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
“They ‘prefer’ or don’t ‘categorically oppose’ the development of limited, low- or no-impact, renewable resources that provide far less than 10 percent of our current energy demand,” Hayes continued. “However, they put heavy restrictions on how the ‘preferred’ energy options can be developed or used.”
Hayes said if 90 percent of the state’s energy is shut off, it would have catastrophic impacts on human life. “You limit almost every aspect of human life and progress — the ability to work and earn a living, medicine, food production, heating and cooling, transportation, etc.,” Hayes said.
Gail Philbin, the director of the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, and the Sierra Club’s national coal spokesman Ricky Junquera didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.
The Sierra Club's website states: "We have a vision of a world powered by clean energy, where dirty and dangerous fossil fuels are a thing of the past and everyone can enjoy cleaner air and water thanks to renewable energy resources."
The Sierra Club has a webpage devoted to natural gas titled, “DIRTY, DANGEROUS, AND RUN AMOK.”
The Sierra Club has championed shutting down coal plants across the country.
The organization's page on nuclear power says this: “The Sierra Club remains unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy.” The Sierra Club’s Executive Director Michael Brune called nuclear power “dangerous” in an article in the Wall Street Journal.
A spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute objected to the Sierra Club’s statement that nuclear power is dangerous.
“Our nation’s nuclear energy facilities are in fact very safe,” said Tom Kauffman, the director of media relations for the Nuclear Energy Institute. “After more than 60 years of commercial nuclear energy production in the United States, including over 3,900 reactor-years of operation, there have been no radiation-related health effects linked to their operation. Studies by the National Cancer Institute and The United Nations Scientific Committee of the Effects of Atomic Radiation show that U.S. nuclear power plants effectively protect the public’s health and safety. Nuclear plants also are safe for workers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is safer to work at a nuclear plant than at a fast food restaurant, a grocery store or in real estate.”
Dear Sierra Club, MOVE.
Sierra Club members should have an electric meter that will only deliver electricity when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining.
Well, Sierra Club, what is your average monthly energy invoice?
If you are not in agreement with that average amount, why don’t you just exit MI? Bye!
I’m sure CP and DTE won’t really miss your meager payments for the next...say...thousand years.
That's more than enough to charge Teslas and Iphones, and meet most of the power needs of the 1 percent. The rest is just being wasted by the proles and kulaks. /limousine liberal
“Sierra Club”? WTF, there’s no sierra in Michigan!
All of these neoLuddites should be in an extended edition of “Naked and Afraid”. Say,six months or so in Alaska. That, I’d watch.
Don’t live in Michigan but, generally speaking, the Sierra Club is nuts.
We need to build more nuclear plants.
Sierra Club and their reusable shopping bags that no one washes or replaces ,it’s like carrying Typhoid Mary around with you
Well, except for all the computing power behind their toys and wealth:
Computers will use more electricity than the entire world can generate
Since when has the sierra club had any say in,the matter anyhow? Last time I checked, the sierra club is in charge of jack-shit.
So if that cabal of useful idiot tree & bunny huggers want to shut down power plants, and are successful, SUE the living shit out of them for ths replacement technology and lost megawatt capacity.
Use their own tactics against them and their financial backers.
Cut off all fossil fuels to Sierra Club members. Let them walk or ride a mule to their meetings, no electricity generated by such fuels connected to their homes and offices, and certainly no food grown or transported with the use of gas and oil should be available to them. Cut them off and see how long they last on wind and solar power.
Population reduction in the targeted classes will take care of that. If fossil fuels and electricity are cut off, how many do you think would survive the first winter? You need to learn how to think like the ruling class. /1%er.
I was once a member of the SC. We specialized in taking inner city kids to back pack camping. I had to quit when I saw the left taking over the concept of wilderness. The SC could not even come out against unrestricted immigration, because it meant more votes (even though it also meant more growth and more power generation).
The power companies at one time planned their future power facilities based on expected growth of the population. Not since the SC has become the dominant force in the energy business. Now, if it gets too hot they have a device on your thermostat that turns the AC down until you are uncomfortable and in the winter when too cold you are invited to put on a sweater.
In a reasonable world, people would be free to spend their money on AC or heat if they wished. They would not be able to force their neighbors to use expensive and intermittent power, and if they were convinced that CO2 was “really” a problem, they would back nuclear and find a place to store nuclear waste. What is happening now is clearly a sham.
Watermelons. Green on the outside, red to the core!
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