By: Diane Benjamin Jenn has new comments on Facebook this morning claiming she is completely non-violent. Everything not in quotes are Jenn’s words. This is non-violent? Below are the parts of the article Jenn didn’t quote. “this man” is President Trump. https://splinternews.com/this-is-just-the-beginning-1827099100 The U.S. had thousands of domestic bombings per year in the early 1970s. […]
By: Diane Benjamin Similar graphics are available on many sites. Carbon is .035% of the atmosphere. If you listen to the media its destroying life on planet earth. Really? Source
Sorry, reading the wrong month By: Diane Benjamin Yes, it’s been really hot! Media thought we might break a record yesterday. What was the record yesterday? 94 degrees What the media often fails to tell you is what year that record was set. Instead they spew Global Warming or Climate Change unsubstantiated statements and demand […]
By: Diane Benjamin McLean County, Bloomington, and Normal all passed a recycling ordinance that could lead to MANDATORY recycling, shortly after Normal decided they don’t have the money to pay for drop off sites: https://blnnews.com/2018/03/02/normal-crashing/ Midwest Fiber supposedly agreed to operate these drop off sites: It looks like there is NO profit in recycling because […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington City Council spent almost an hour discussing why citizens shouldn’t be allowed to choose the lowest cost electricity under Municipal Aggregation. The final vote was 7-2 with Aldermen Sage and Mathy against limiting your rights. The rest of the Council voted with one finger pointed directly at you. Even with […]
By: Diane Benjamin Today the local rag has a story extolling the greatness of the Heartland Turbine. Maybe they got their info from Heartland, maybe they shouldn’t have. Their story says 23,000 Megawatts have been generated – in 5 years. That’s 4,600 MW a year. Now convert that to Kilowatt hours so their story and […]
By: Diane Benjamin The pictures below were all taken on June 2, 2017 east of Ellsworth, Il. In case you don’t know, wind turbines must have a backup system (FOSSIL FUELS!) because turbines aren’t capable of producing steady electricity. The wind doesn’t always blow or it blows too hard. Meanwhile, fossils fuels pollute more because […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you still think turbines are green technology that will save the world – GROW UP. The BLACK is oil. It takes a LOT of oil to make pretend green. When not maintained, oil is thrown all over the ground beneath them. I could post many stories about wind – start […]
Two articles destroy the Global Warming Myth: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-03/un-official-admits-global-warming-agenda-really-about-destroying-capitalism Excerpt: A shocking statement was made by a United Nations official Christiana Figueres at a news conference in Brussels. Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists […]
By: Diane Benjamin A blade fell off a turbine east of Ellsworth over a week ago. A source told me the IMO bearings are defective which caused the washer to overheat and then detach the blade. I do not know how far the blade fell from tower, but I do know it made A LOT […]
By: Diane Benjamin From the Edgar County Watchdogs website: http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2016/10/invenergys-wind-farm-joins-wall-of-shame/ InvEnergy owes Champaign County $480,298 in unpaid taxes. Recently, we shed a spotlight on three parcels of land in Champaign County which have unpaid taxes in the California Ridge Wind Farm developed and partially owned by INVENERGY which is 90% owned by TerraForm Power, which […]
On Monday, November 21, 2016 3:42 PM, Pantagraph Letters <PLetters@pantagraph.com> wrote: . I’m sorry but your letter has not been selected for publication. Thank you. . Karen Hansen Digital news editor The Pantagraph P: 309-820-3236 @pg_digital khansen@pantagraph.com . Here’s the letter: . Logan County has “Gone with the Wind”! . Logan County Zoning & County […]
By: Diane Benjamin Yesterday the McLean County Board passed a new Wind Farm ordinance that benefits developers over people. Livingston County had a referendum on their last ballot asking whether a 1600 feet setback was enough, the voters there said NO. McLean’s ordinance is a measly 1500 feet from any occupied home – not the […]
The sound system at this meeting was NOT the new system. I heard at the meeting it was, that information was false. The new system should be installed in the next 10days to 2 weeks. _______________________________ A reader commented that the Pantagraph “corrected” the story in today’s paper. Unless another story is done and posted […]
McLean County is facing the same issues and being misled in the same way! This is a report from a citizen who attended. The wind company was given all the time they wanted, citizens were limited – the room was full of concerned citizens. So far the Board only sees dollars signs! Disconnected is what […]
Tonight is a zoning hearing for a new wind farm: Thursday, September 8 @ 7:30 PM at the West Lincoln Broadwell Elementary School District 92 which is located at 2695 Woodlawn Road, Lincoln, IL 62656 Wind farms can be hazardous to your health, produce very little electricity for the massive costs (subsidizes), and won’t provide […]
By: Diane Benjamin Lisa Madigan signed up to start prosecuting corporations who deny climate change. That’s not surprising since she rarely prosecutes corrupt politicians and instead prosecutes businesses. She needs to see the video below, but most likely facts don’t matter. They don’t to some ISU professors! What exactly do 97% of climate change scientist […]
By: Diane Benjamin The climate change believers were unleashed to spew propaganda in the bird-cage liner today. An editorial by two ISU professors called people who haven’t swallowed the communist green kool-aid part of the “cult of ignorance”. These clowns admit to living in a bubble. I agree and it’s funded by taxpayers and […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you know anyone being approached by a Wind Farm company now – get this to them. These companies will attempt to get landowners to sign contracts even before a wind farm is approved! Make sure they DON’T sign without knowing the facts! These companies are not above saying the neighbors have […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Logan County Board had rejected plans for a Wind Farm by a company named Relight. That didn’t stop them from trying again. Relight is an Italian company, gee I wonder why they want to build here. It can’t have anything to do with Europe abandoning wind and the US handing out […]
Here’s another article to consider: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/12/climate-change-and-the-lessons-of-a-winter-storm.html I few days ago a banned person left a comment about climate change to this story: http://blnnews.com/2015/12/26/vogel-you-make-my-writing-sooooo-easy/ This person has the honor of being the only person I have banned from commenting. The IP address isn’t local, so I don’t take her seriously. I banned her because having an […]
By: Diane Benjamin This turbine is on Leroy-Lexington black top, just south of Route 9. All those black spots are fossil fuels! Livingston County will be voting again on a new wind farm. A YES vote is a vote to kill birds and throw oil in fields. A YES votes means tax payers will be […]
By: Diane Benjamin It’s a great morning! It’s so foggy out here in the country I can’t see the wind turbines! I know I have readers who know a lot more about these things than I do, so tell me why many of these monstrosities are developing brown spots. Yep, the pictures aren’t clear. I don’t […]
By: Diane Benjamin The First Earth Day was in 1970. One of the organizers was a now convicted murder Ira Einhorn, but I digress. Below are what they predicted: (Don’t miss 11 and 13) Behold the coming apocalypse as predicted on and around Earth Day, 1970: “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless […]
By: Diane Benjamin In the 70’s, the talking points were Global Cooling. Then temperatures increased and the talking points went to Global Warming. Then temperatures cooled again, so now it’s Climate Change. No the science isn’t settled. No 90%+ scientists do not agree. No, you can not trust people who profit from towing whatever line […]
By: Diane Benjamin Look up the Delphi method. It’s an established technique to make you agree with an agenda as “facts” are presented to support what the seller wants you to buy. Many people in Normal believe in the Uptown concept and now Uptown 2. Personal property rights must be sacrificed for the greater good. […]
Global warming, climate change, whatever they call it now is nothing more than a way to change your behavior by force and take your money. Are the people behind it living green? Not a chance – only you are expected to comply. Watch this video from the Weather Channel Founder. Your electricity rates are sky-rocketing […]
by: Diane Benjamin If you believe government always acts in your best interests, don’t bother reading this post. There is a lot more to the presentation by the Ecology Action Center at last nights Council meeting. The presentation starts on page 611: http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=7126 The oral presentation didn’t use any troubling words, but the written copy […]
by: Diane Benjamin The CONTROL agenda was further displayed at last night’s City Council meeting with a presentation by the Ecology Action Center. I have no problem with recycling and solid waste management. Throwing usable items in a landfill is ridiculous, but the EAC went far beyond that. Part of their funding comes from Bloomington […]
by: Diane Benjamin Corn Belt Electric sends a magazine to members of the electric cooperative every month. The July Issue has 2 good articles about the EPA shutting down coal-fired power plants. If you weren’t paying attention, Obama promised he would do just that before he ran the first time. Kiss cheap energy goodbye. Here’s […]
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by: Diane Benjamin Original construction costs are in this post: This post will update the information from last year. The turbine was broke for all of October 2013 and March 2014. It was broke for part of September and November 2013 and February 2014. Note the higher Cost per KWH during those months. Looking […]
by: Diane Benjamin If millions of people were travelling this weekend, they weren’t on Illinois roads. We left Saturday morning for Wisconsin and returned yesterday. Traffic was only a problem when a semi was in the left lane blocking traffic! To leave Illinois cost $1.90. To come back to Illinois cost $1.90. These toll booths […]
Make sure you read to the end! From the Washington Post: The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all […]
From an email circulating: Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.” The young clerk responded, “That’s […]
by Diane Benjamin Remember this video? Obama is eliminating cheap energy without Cap & Trade. While virtually every government agency is trying to raise taxes, expenses for citizens are increasing on items we must purchase. The middle class is being squeezed by fundamental transformation. Article from Illinois Country Living magazine: http://icl.coop/cooperatives-prepared-long-term/ What the article doesn’t […]
Meteorologists’ views about global warming: A survey of American Meteorological Society professional members Meteorologists and other atmospheric science experts are playing important roles in helping society respond to climate change. Members of this professional community are not unanimous in their views of climate change, and there has been tension among members of the American Meteorological […]
by: Diane Benjamin Date of death: September 18, 2013 Date it may rise from the dead: November 11, 2013 (at least some time that week) The College (taxpayers) will not incur any costs to fix it. This information was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. There is a little more to this story however. […]
Wind energy is a horrendous waste of time and money. The federal tax subsidies alone cost America (that’s you, me and future generations who bear this debt load) TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. That doesn’t include the cost of new high voltage transmission lines needed to deal with the big surges from fickle wind and […]
Written by Alex Newman http://flyoverpress.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/draft-australia-reining-in-climate-schemes-after-voters-reject-carbon-tax/?goback=.gde_4400754_member_273744157#! In the wake of a crushing defeat last week for the climate alarmism-promoting Australian Labor Party, which imposed the deeply unpopular and expensive “carbon tax” credited by analysts for the conservative coalition’s victory, authorities in Australia are preparing to dismantle and consolidate the myriad global-warming schemes spawned under the […]
