by: Diane Benjamin First: Have people quit writing Letters to the Editor or are you making sure opinions of citizens aren’t heard? Does anybody actually read the propaganda published elsewhere first? Now for the jeers: In the Cheers and Jeers editorial today: Cheers: . . . to the “I will Act on climate” group that […]
by: Diane Benjamin The citizens of Normal are lucky that Koos has abandoned plans for the Underwood House. The idea was to create a showcase of green technology so all citizens could see how to retro-fit their houses. It would have cost you a fortune. Unlike what the Pantagraph reported today, there was no appraisal […]
The EPA should update the way it measures fuel efficiency, after independent tests raised questions about hybrids’ gas mileage. By The Denver Post Editorial Board Independent tests showing some hybrid vehicles get far fewer miles per gallon than advertised is a consumer issue that has significant public policy implications. We would hope the U.S. Environmental […]
One of the important unanswered questions, the former official said, is “who gets to decide what sustainability is? Or what its outcome means?” One of the major impediments, the study says, is created by America’s “basic framework of government, established by law,” which is “one of separated and dispersed authority,” in which “government agencies at […]
By Ron Arnold, Washington Examiner – June 28, 2013 What does America have to show for the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to stop climate change? Is the climate better now because of 20 years of throwing money at it? The issue is the climate, not the loads of exorbitantly expensive subsidy scandals, secretive scientists and bureaucratic claptrap […]
by Rich Kozlovich Posted: June 23, 2013 Jessica Marszelek, federal politics reporter for Australia’s News Limited Network, recently posted an article titled, “Australia: Wind power ‘terrorising’ rural communities.” Some 150 people turned up for a three-hour rally at Canberra’s Parliament House, she reported, to express their concern about the health effects of wind turbines. The residents […]
by: Diane Benjamin I finally obtained the bids from Tari Renner. The Bloomington Freedom of Information Officer was evidently too busy to copy. As previously reported, Bloomington opted for 100% Renewable. Electricity is not storable, so it is impossible to determine the source of the power. The turbines East of Bloomington are frequently turned off […]
Is Roy Spencer the world’s most important scientist? By Norman Rogers Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world’s most important scientist. He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine. That doctrine has always been dubious and is often defended by […]
Update: I finally got an answer from Heartland about the numbers they submitted. The KWH does include the electricity generated by the turbine. Notice the cost per KWH didn’t drop significantly until September, then it dropped even more. I know they had installation problems, so possibly the turbine wasn’t fully running until then. Maybe next […]
Green energy has bankrupted many European Countries – but we keep drinking the Kool-aid. That $3.7 million grant is our tax money: http://www.commerce.state.il.us/dceo/ From the Hearthand Community College website: http://www.hcc.cc.il.us/news.jsp?newsID=1927 IGEN Earns $3.7 Million Grant for Green Economy HCC, other Illinois community colleges and local communities to benefit from new programs The Illinois Green Economy Network […]
by Steve Goreham Excepts from the story linked to below: At the same time, the theory of man-made warming appears increasingly shaky. Hundreds of studies show that Earth was warmer 1,000 years ago than it is today. Water vapor, not carbon dioxide, is Earth’s dominant greenhouse gas. Arctic sea ice recently reached a 30-year low, but Antarctic Sea ice is […]
From the June 2013 issue of Popular Science: The environmental crowd is changing the weather!
Update: They passed to contract with Good Energy and add the maximum renewable. Also they approved their cut. Government run electricity – congrats Bloomington. by: Diane Benjamin Tonight the Bloomington City Council will approve a contract with Good Energy to start the aggregation process. As explained previously (http://blnnews.com/2012/12/18/aggregation-follow-the-money/), Ameren is out to recapture the monopoly they have […]
MILITARY SIGNS CONTRACT FOR GREEN JET FUEL THAT’S NEARLY 16 TIMES THE PRICE OF CONVENTIONAL FUEL May. 3, 2013 11:08am Liz Klimas With many claiming to feel the pangs of the sequestration, it appears a green company’s contract for a more expensive jet fuel was allowed to go through. The renewable chemical and biofuel company Gevo in its first quarter […]
By: Rick Manning It is a bad time to be a global warming believer. Seventeen straight years of climate stability will straighten even the most ardent true believers hockey stick. Russian scientists have even expressed concern that the globe may be facing more than 200 years of global cooling even going so far as worrying about […]
By: Alan Caruba SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013 http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/04/by-alancaruba-mondayapril-22-is-earth.html Monday, April 22, is Earth Day. Begun in 1970, it led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. It is the global platform for the Big Lie that carbon dioxide (CO2) is causing the Earth […]
‘We’ve moved our beds to the basement … so I can try to sleep’ By JACK SPENCER | April 16, 2013 A 476 foot tall windmill stands 1,139 feet from the Shineldecker house in Riverton Township in Mason County. A group of 17 Northern Michigan residents have filed a lawsuit claiming a new Consumers Energy wind farm has […]
TEAM OBAMA’S CARBON TAX HAS NOT FIZZLED OUT By Nancy Thorner – The issue of Global Warming is very much alive in the Obama administration, even while the gun and the gay marriage issues remain on the front burner. Symbolic of President Obama’s push for green energy was his visit to Argonne National Laboratory on […]
By Stanley Kurtz March 18, 2013 10:01 A.M. Last Friday’s headlines focused on President Obama’s address at Argonne National Laboratory, where he proposed to spend $2 billion on an energy-security trust fund for renewable fuel research. Obama boldly pledged “to shift our cars entirely . . . off oil.” How exactly is he planning to […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 – Climatism: A Mad, Mad, Mad World by Steve Goreham CHICAGO, February 20, 2013—Climate change has again moved to center stage. Last week in his State of the Union address, President Obama stated, “But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.” Two days later, Senators […]
The #1 global warming pooh-bah at the United Nations Organization has zero training in climatology. He is a professor of railroad engineering. He also taught economics. He travels the world telling us about climate change. But he has a problem. There has been no increase in temperatures in over a decade. Here is the Wikipedia […]
Front page of the Pantagraph! Wow. Ask yourself: What caused the Dust Bowl? What happened to the glacier that used to cover 1/2 of Illinois? Who pays the salaries of climate scientists? Would they still get paid if they disagreed with current theories? How do they explain the 500 year cycles of warming and cooling […]
ELECTRICITY COMPETITION SAVED ILLINOISANS $218M IN 2012, BUT LONG-TERM UNCERTAIN Electricity competition saved Illinoisans up to $218 million in 2012, but power suppliers get an overall grade of “incomplete” for reports of misleading pitches, a lack of innovation, and the looming question of whether they can offer savings after a major market shift this summer, […]
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=forwardonclimate_partners The President is making a priority of passing climate change laws. A number of groups are organizing a march on DC, the full list is on their website. You have probably never heard of most of them, but a big one jumps out: The League of Women Voters. The Sierra Club is a leftist group […]
Goodbye, Prius? Japanese carmakers drop battery electric-car development Japan is backtracking on battery electric-car development, as even Nissan’s vice chairman, the so-called “father of the Prius,” announced plans to copy Toyota and pursue fuel-cell cars that convert hydrogen to electricity. “Because of its shortcomings — driving range, cost and recharging time — the electric vehicle is not a viable […]
Indoctrinating Your kids! Who decides what is sustainable? Not individuals! Agenda 21 Eco-World Marxism in Illinois EXPOSED!! WHO IS Sharp? She explains how joyfully Illinois established the tyranny of going green, with her help, but is she having second thoughts?? 20 million dollars ready to use!! In 1956 Paul Burkett wrote his paper “Towards a Read Green […]
Has drilling on Federal Land been approved? Has the Keystone pipeline been approved? Have cancelled drilling permits been re-instated? NO! This is the real war to destroy wealth in America. Spending on gas hits a 30 year high, which spells trouble for many business owners who may need to reevaluate 2013 plans. Spending on gas […]
Link to entire story: http://tinyurl.com/a8ggcuf This story concentrates on on the Bay Area of California, but much of it applies to McLean County. There isn’t much difference between the Bay Area and the McLean Country Regional Planning Commission. MCRPC haas plans on their website for Bloomington, Normal, McLean County, Unit 5, District 87, and more, […]
More on the Democratic plans to declare war on the middle class by raising energy prices: Published January 31, 2013 | By Bruce McQuain The question, as posed earlier concerning Britain and France, is will we? Electricity prices are rising in Germany – and citizen with a low-income are suffering particularly. They are at risk of fuel poverty. 10 to 15 percent […]
This article is from the far left site The Nation. Evidently Americans don’t mind paying twice as much for gas since Obama won re-election. Do you mind paying more for all forms of energy? Either take a stand now or pay later! “As visionary as Obama is, he is hamstrung by his pragmatism.” So says […]
NASA is out with a new graph showing we are all going to die! Actually, it shows temperatures since 1880 have gone up: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80167 NASA gets their money from the Federal Government, the Federal Government believes in spending billions and billions of tax dollars on Green Energy, so do you expect anything less from the […]
Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going after home owners who use Wood Burning […]
By John Sullivan In all your endless whining during the past four years about “inheriting the worst recession since the Great Depression”, you have never mentioned that, at the same time, you inherited the greatest impending recovery since the Great Depression. All you really had to do was sit on your hands, play some golf, […]
This report from Michigan is exactly the plan Normal and Mayor Chris Koos have for the area, except Koos wants to go even bigger – up to 100 charging stations for non-existent electric cars for people rich enough to pay for themselves: Electric Car Owners Get a Free Ride in Ann Arbor By AUDREY SPALDING | Jan. 16, […]
CHICAGO, December 24, 2012 — With barely a whimper from the media, John Kerry is President Obama’s official nominee for Secretary of State. Mr. Kerry is the senior Senator from Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and was the 2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Kerry has also been a long-time crusader in the […]
You can’t drive in the new Uptown Normal, you have to park in a garage and walk. Almost every new building is retail on the first floor and apartments above. The Town of Normal is spending over 20,000 for a feasibility study of a grocery store in Uptown. The train station has no place to drop off […]
by Diane Benjamin I previously reported on the purchase of a house at 900 South Linden: http://blnnews.com/2012/10/15/big-spending-environmentalists-running-normal/ According to the Town Council Action Report dated 11/1/2007, this property was purchased to enlarge Underwood Park and provide access to Constitution Trail. The purpose has now been changed. Instead of tearing the house down, Normal has plans […]
Christopher Monckton explains truth of scandal over climate change The attendees at the recent global “climate” conference in Doha, Qatar, most of them highly influential and powerful in their home countries, were treated to a special address recently. “There has been no global warming for 16 years (actually 18 or 19 years, on closer examination),” […]
by: Diane Benjamin How many billions (trillions?) have been spent around the globe to supposedly fight global cooling in the 70’s, then global warming and now just climate change? When have you ever seen a debate among scientists or meteorologists? The answer is NEVER. Anybody who questions the reality of climate change or opposes the massive taxpayer dollars being thrown […]
December 26th, 2012 by Tom DeWeese It has become typical in school text books, in public discussions, and in the smug wisdom of Progressives, to diminish the words and actions of those who led the founding of the United States. However, now that the nation has gone through what Al Gore called a “wrenching transformation” away […]
