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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This governor thinks man can control earth’s atmosphere?
Excellent idea, clean, cheap power.
Wow, he won’t be governor then.
Bump for all my friends and family in VA.
Gov. Blackface is a disgrace.
Wish we could deport all the New Jersey people who moved here and ruined the Commonwealth.
Shut up, Rochester.
All this from the Al Jolson wanna be?
Ok then
Let em freeze, forced to strip the shingles from their roofs for heat.
Minnesota governor Walz has the same plan to make the state carbon free by 2050. Last winter when the polar vortex hit Minnesota a local energy company told customers to keep thermostats at 59 degrees as they could not supply the natural gas needed for the demand. Imagine when the state is dependent on windmills and solar farms for their heat and the nighttime temperatures are in the -40 range. I expect that the news will be reporting deaths due to the cold.
“Carbon-free” - this is possible only if the state were stripped down to bare rock, with no animal, plant, or bacteria inhabiting the thing. This is yet another bit of idiot sloganeering just like “climate denier” - the words mean only what the proggies want them to mean, nothing more.
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