Posted on 03/24/2023 6:59:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
OLYMPIA — Washington’s first auction of greenhouse gas pollution allowances generated $300 million.
Now, state senators are proposing to invest millions from the program in electrifying ports, schools and homes, conserving old forests, and helping relocate Indigenous communities who are vulnerable to climate change.
Some $75 million of the climate dollars included in the senators’ proposal could go to low-income families looking to switch from oil or gas furnaces to electric heat pumps.
And $80 million could support the state Department of Natural Resources’ “carbon sequestration” projects.
An additional $40 million is budgeted to help electrify some of the state’s 75 ports.
And about $30 million is slated for the planning, predesign and development of clean energy projects like solar, dairy digesters and grid modernization around the state.
The operating budget proposal carves out over $9 million to put the Healthy Environment for All Act into practice, including mapping out environmental health disparities, providing state staff to assist the environmental justice council and rolling out a community engagement plan.
The proposed budget would add an additional $50 million for Indigenous communities in areas vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding or other disturbances caused by climate change to relocate. It also earmarks nearly $12 million of the funds for the Quinault Indian Nation.
The plan includes $20 million to support the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association application for a U.S. Department of Energy hydrogen hub grant.
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Really stupid.
Where I’m sitting right now was once buried beneath a mile or more of ice.
Climate changes, and no amount of dollars can stop it.
I’ll take the land they are moving the indigenous peoples from! That land is dangerous and useless so they should just give it away.
They should move them to Toronto.
Climate dollar? I prefer the phrase, earnings by hardworking Americans that are forcibly confiscated by lazy ass government pieces of chit:
Can’t the illegals live in the old forests?
I have a really snarky question related to the following - Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide. It is one method of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the goal of reducing global climate change. Is this CO2 in a gaseous form or solid?
What happens if the storage location leaks? Is a single big CO2 fart worse than gradual CO2 increase? Leaks would seem to be a bad thing, how are leaks prevented?
Can we write Putin and ask how much they would ask us to pay to send a missile to Olympia when the Legislature meets with the Governor?
In other words, the Dung Beetle Party doesn’t care if you pollute. They just want you to pay THEM to pollute. It’s all about the money. Money, Money, Money. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Carbon sequestration is a really futile, stupid idea.
Proving once again that it has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with wealth redistribution.
What?
The second order CO2 sink is vegetation.
There is no technology available today, nor for the foreseeable future, that can create a CO2 sink that is even close to the magnitude of either of those.
And, by the way, CO2 is a GOOD thing.
More CO2, more vegetation. More vegetation, more food. The problem with that from the Establishment perspective is ...
They shuffle dollars around to virtue signal nothing but pay grievance groups
climate change is the rat Trojan horse
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