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Floundering Illinois wind energy program blamed partly on (you guessed it) climate change – Wirepoints
Wirepoints ^ | 29 April 2024 | Mark Glennon

Posted on 04/29/2024 10:29:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

It was less windy in 2023 in Illinois, the article tells us, and that was because of big Canadian forest fires last year. And it blames climate change, of course, for forest fires.

Another part of the problem is impediments created by the “equity” requirements now built into Illinois energy law for hiring and worker training.

Regardless, it’s not climate change or a year of low wind that’s “sucking the air out of Illinois’ wind power industry,” as the Sun-Times headline postulated. The state’s expectations for renewables were doomed from the start.

(Excerpt) Read more at wirepoints.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: stupid
Stuck in a doom loop.

OH! But a TEN BILLION DOLLAR public stadium built on the lakefront will fix everything. Maybe including the billion they still owe on Soldier Field?

Or the new casino that will make Chicago solvent? Execpt the developer is nearly bankrupt and cutting back...

The marijuana sales! That's the ticket. For some reason that has yet to produce.

They sold all the parking meter income and the Skyway for some magic beans...

1 posted on 04/29/2024 10:29:35 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Floundering

Apt. Prixter is a beached whale.

2 posted on 04/29/2024 10:37:29 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: xoxox

—”Floundering”

That is not right!

Flounder was simply a fun-loving guy and did NOT shoot the horse.
He didn’t intend to barf on the Dean.

And Flounder’s brother’s car will be remembered forever...


3 posted on 04/29/2024 11:42:10 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Illinois has to borrow money to fund their pensions.

That debt is junk bond debt. The state’s credit ratings are on par with the crowd that shops at Aaron’s.


4 posted on 04/29/2024 1:03:50 PM PDT by Freest Republican
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To: Freest Republican

If they don’t get a real governor soon, it sounds like they are doomed. The lucky ones will be the ones who are no longer living there to see it happen.


5 posted on 04/29/2024 3:21:55 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“It was less windy in 2023 in Illinois, the article tells us”

Maybe they put up too many windmills and the wind slowed down.


6 posted on 04/29/2024 3:56:04 PM PDT by Neverlift
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Consider the amount of “ carbon pollution “ those Canadian forest fires dumped into the atmosphere. No one also seems to blame Trudeau government for failing to manage the forests to reduce the fire hazard or their mostly failed efforts to promptly control and extinguish the fires.


7 posted on 04/29/2024 4:01:06 PM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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