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Virginia governor Northam's Green New Deal: The State Must Be Carbon Free by 2050
American Thinker ^ | 09/25/2019 | James Stansbury

Posted on 09/25/2019 7:05:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A few days ago, our small-town mayor in rural Virginia, about 45 minutes from a major nuclear power plant, announced she had received an offer from a company desiring 125 acres of town-owned woodland for a solar farm.  It made little business sense until learning of Executive Order 43, signed on Sep. 16 by Virginia's Gov. Ralph Northam.  EO-43 mandates expansion of solar energy and other renewable energy ideas like those in the Democrats' radical Green New Deal.  Perhaps he had noble intentions, but more likely, it was to regain support from his base after being weakened politically by his alleged blackface photo and endorsement of infanticide.

A paragraph from EO-43 outlines the main objectives:  

The Director of Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, the Secretary of Natural Resources, and the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), shall develop a plan of action to produce thirty percent of Virginia's electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030 and one hundred percent of Virginia's electricity from carbon-free sources by 2050.

Northam's mandated solutions make no mention of carbon-free nuclear power, instead deferring to the usual suspects: offshore and land based wind farms, solar farms and building energy storage capability such as mega-batteries and pumped hydroelectric storage (dams).  I doubt many environmental activists will approve since they have already successfully blocked construction of several less invasive natural gas pipelines.  And like the Green New Deal, the plan also advances socialist-sounding notions of social, energy, equity, and environmental justice. 


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: carbon; envirowhackos; greenenergy; greennewdeal; liberalfascism; northam; virginia
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1 posted on 09/25/2019 7:05:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Blah, blah, blah... stuff it, blackface.


2 posted on 09/25/2019 7:05:46 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Every liberal should be red-flagged.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We really need to purge the government of these Carbon Brainwashed fools.


3 posted on 09/25/2019 7:06:46 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: SeekAndFind
she had received an offer from a company desiring 125 acres of town-owned woodland for a solar farm. It made little business sense

It still makes no business sense … it's all left-wing politics.

4 posted on 09/25/2019 7:07:03 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

When the governor gives up all fossil fuels for heating/cooling/transportation we can talk.


5 posted on 09/25/2019 7:08:54 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

When other than electric cars are banned from universities we can talk.


6 posted on 09/25/2019 7:14:38 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: SeekAndFind

He does not really give a dam about Virginia. Before the costs of the plan wear down the economy of Virginia to its knees, the governor will be dead; but meanwhile he will get the virtue signalling political creds he wants for himself and die happy knowing THAT.


7 posted on 09/25/2019 7:17:51 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: ScottinVA

Let’s question conventional groupthink... why do we need to be carbon free?


8 posted on 09/25/2019 7:23:24 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: SeekAndFind

He wants to get rid of the carbon so he can’t use a piece of coal to blacken his face in the future.


9 posted on 09/25/2019 7:27:24 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: SeekAndFind

Then they and all the idiots who voted for them should be required to die or leave the state so they don’t contribute CO2 to the global load from the State of Virginia.


10 posted on 09/25/2019 7:27:33 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Everyone that breaths out CO2 must die ?


11 posted on 09/25/2019 7:28:40 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

Another proponent in energy production by magic!


12 posted on 09/25/2019 7:32:41 AM PDT by Reily
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To: HonorInPa
why do we need to be carbon free?

We don't. It's a stupid goal that gains us nothing.

13 posted on 09/25/2019 7:38:33 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sooo, what do we use for aircraft propulsion? Anti-gravity machines that run on pixi dust and unicorn poop?


14 posted on 09/25/2019 7:40:31 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about those jets screaming over Fentress? Electric engines for those too?


15 posted on 09/25/2019 7:44:39 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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“...why do we need to be carbon free?...”

It’s their religion...every bit as radical, dangerous and insane as sharia law when carried to it’s natural extremes.


16 posted on 09/25/2019 7:57:21 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maine’s got VA beat. Our Dim Gov announced that we’d be “carbon neutral” by 2045.


17 posted on 09/25/2019 8:00:53 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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No carbon? How can he do blackface?


18 posted on 09/25/2019 8:04:45 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Psalm 73

Hopefully the govnah will start flying around on solar powered airplanes!

(Well, actually it would be only flight, and a very quick one. ;-) )


19 posted on 09/25/2019 8:10:15 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We already have North Anna and Surry nuclear plants going just fine. A 1.5GW unit at North Anna is planned with more possibly at Surry as well. Build more nuke plants!


20 posted on 09/25/2019 8:12:33 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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