Another massive CA green energy taxpayer-subsidized boongoogle, this one in Santa Clarita/Saugus/Canyon Country/antelope valley/lancaster region of SoCAL. Status: unknown but probably will go through despite tough environ land-use delays/approval process.
Project No Project: White Oak Wind Energy Project
White Oak Wind Energy Project
STATUS: In progress with opposition
TYPE: Wind
OPPOSITION: Residents of Lake Hughes, Elizabeth Lake, and Leona Valley; Leona Valley Town Council, Lakes and Valleys Conservancy
PROSPECTS: Indeterminate
BACKGROUND: The White Oak Wind Energy Project is located six miles northwest of Lake Hughes, California. It is a project that includes 70 wind turbines and is estimated to cost a total of $630 million. The project will take 7 months build. The turbines have an operational lifetime of 25 and 30 years. The developer of the project is White Oak Wind Farm, LLC. which is a subsidiary of Advanced Development Services, LLC. These turbines will generate 210 megawatts of energy, enough to power about 245,000 homes in Los Angeles County.
Construction will create approximately 185 local jobs. Once the turbines are complete, 7 to 10 permanent jobs will exist to maintain the structures, and an additional 7 to 12 permanent indirect jobs will be created.
Local residents from Lake Hughes, Elizabeth Lake, and Leona Valley oppose the project. These residents have expressed concern regarding the “visual blight” of the project. They are also worried about the “spiderweb of power lines and towers” that would cross Leona Valley.
The Lakes and Valleys Conservancy has expressed concern for many endangered or threatened birds in the area. Most recently, a tri-colored blackbird brought biologists from all over the state. A member of the Leona Valley Town Council has suggested that residents take pictures of such important species to prove their existence and importance.
Currently, the White Oak Wind Energy Project’s application for a conditional-use permit is stalled because not enough information was provided in the document.
LINKS:
Antelope Valley Press: Accessed http://www.windaction.org/news/21038
http://www.windenergyparks.com/windprojects.php?project_id=1
http://www.windenergyparks.com/docs/project_16.pdf
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Wind, solar is an economic, enviro scam which feasts on Federal subsidies, mandates, and pliant politicians
“Why They Go Green” (WSJ editorial says much in few words) — MasterResource
When will Democrats and true environmentalists wake up to windpower, or what Robert Bryce calls the ethanol of electricity? Industrial wind is a scam when seen in all of its dimensions–economic, environmental, and esthetic. Bryce has identified five myths of green energy–and post after post at MasterResource by Kent Hawkins, Jon Boone, and John Droz Jr. have shown that meaningful CO2 reductions from windpower are highly debatable.
Industrial wind is chock full of environmental negatives and isn’t nearly as effective at reducing air emissions than advertised. Big Wind is corporate welfare with companies like GE and FPL skipping their federal taxes. Wind today is the legacy of Enron, the Ken Lay model of political capitalism. Wind is an assault on lower-income energy users, not only taxpayers. (And Democrats are supposed to be for the little guy….)
MY COMMENTS
Industrial wind and on-grid solar were hyped and feted back as far back as the 70's, when US was faced with the middle eastern oil embargo. The technology was well known then but , as it true today, wind & solar simply cannot get around the basic physical laws of energy. They are only now dragged up and kicked around again because of the global warming climate hysteria(pure baloney, easily criticized), and looming peak oil crisis(harder to dispute but not cause for panic).
New recovery methods and new oilfield discoveries such as Brazil offshore ..keep extending the peak oil time line, and the shale gas hydrofracture revolution will provide an abundant source of cheap natural gas supplies to power electic generation for next 100 years. Plus Nat gas burns 50% less co2 and pollutants than oil and coal. So we should be putting up nat gas power plants as well as non-co2 emitting nuclear power plants, and stop this nonsense with covering 100's of sq miles of scenic CA deserts and Kansas prairies with unsightly windtowers, and 1000's of acres of land-hogging solar panels all over USA .......
And now, desperation has set in for an industry that needs more government (point-of-a-gun) energy policy to continue its artificial boom. And so a fundraiser yesterday was held by the renewable lobby for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nevada) that caught the eye of the Wall Street Journal, which published this short op-ed, Why They Go Green:
In a free energy market, companies succeed by producing cheaper, better products than competitors. In a “green” energy market, companies succeed by holding Beltway fundraisers. For more on the distinction, ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who will benefit today from a tony Washington money-raising breakfast hosted by top “renewable energy” industry groups.
Democrats may be losing altitude with most of struggling corporate America, but it’s all about the love with the green sector, floating above economic realities thanks to stimulus handouts and other perks funneled them by the majority. Mr. Reid has been a strong advocate of this transfer, and the industry is showing it knows how to give back.
That, and watching its back. The companies that belong to the American Wind Energy Association or the Solar Energy Industries Association (among the fundraiser’s hosts) produce costly products that can’t compete against traditional fuels. Their business plans are written around Washington subsidies and mandates. They’re obviously worried a Republican majority might pare back the grants, loans and tax credits, in the name of cutting government waste. One can hope.
As the event invitation noted—in requesting $2,500 to attend—Mr. Reid’s Nevada Senate competition against Republican Sharron Angle is an “incredibly important race.” Indeed it is if your balance sheets depend on the Democrats’ special way with taxpayer money.
Can Democrats and the Left wise up and chuck windpower and on-grid solar? (Off-grid solar has a free-market niche.) Industrial wind is an environmental loser, not only an economic loser. The good news is that change is in the air as the grassroots environmental movement is rethinking–and rejecting–industrial windpower. When will Big Environmental question Big Wind–or do they secretly love industrial wind because its power is more expensive and less reliable than what industrial society needs?
When will Democrats and true environmentalists wake up to windpower, or what Robert Bryce calls the ethanol of electricity? Industrial wind is a scam when seen in all of its dimensions–economic, environmental, and esthetic. Bryce has identified five myths of green energy–and post after post at MasterResource by Kent Hawkins, Jon Boone, and John Droz Jr. have shown that meaningful CO2 reductions from windpower are highly debatable.
Industrial wind is chock full of environmental negatives and isn’t nearly as effective at reducing air emissions than advertised. Big Wind is corporate welfare with companies like GE and FPL skipping their federal taxes. Wind today is the legacy of Enron, the Ken Lay model of political capitalism. Wind is an assault on lower-income energy users, not only taxpayers. (And Democrats are supposed to be for the little guy….)
MY COMMENTS
Industrial wind and on-grid solar were hyped and feted back as far back as the 70's, when US was faced with the middle eastern oil embargo. The technology was well known then but , as it true today, wind & solar simply cannot get around the basic physical laws of energy. They are only now dragged up and kicked around again because of the global warming climate hysteria(pure baloney, easily criticized), and looming peak oil crisis(harder to dispute but not cause for panic).
New recovery methods and new oilfield discoveries such as Brazil offshore ..keep extending the peak oil time line, and the shale gas hydrofracture revolution will provide an abundant source of cheap natural gas supplies to power electic generation for next 100 years. Plus Nat gas burns 50% less co2 and pollutants than oil and coal. So we should be putting up nat gas power plants as well as non-co2 emitting nuclear power plants, and stop this nonsense with covering 100's of sq miles of scenic CA deserts and Kansas prairies with unsightly windtowers, and 1000's of acres of land-hogging solar panels all over USA .......
And now, desperation has set in for an industry that needs more government (point-of-a-gun) energy policy to continue its artificial boom. And so a fundraiser yesterday was held by the renewable lobby for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nevada) that caught the eye of the Wall Street Journal, which published this short op-ed, Why They Go Green:
In a free energy market, companies succeed by producing cheaper, better products than competitors. In a “green” energy market, companies succeed by holding Beltway fundraisers. For more on the distinction, ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who will benefit today from a tony Washington money-raising breakfast hosted by top “renewable energy” industry groups.
Democrats may be losing altitude with most of struggling corporate America, but it’s all about the love with the green sector, floating above economic realities thanks to stimulus handouts and other perks funneled them by the majority. Mr. Reid has been a strong advocate of this transfer, and the industry is showing it knows how to give back.
That, and watching its back. The companies that belong to the American Wind Energy Association or the Solar Energy Industries Association (among the fundraiser’s hosts) produce costly products that can’t compete against traditional fuels. Their business plans are written around Washington subsidies and mandates. They’re obviously worried a Republican majority might pare back the grants, loans and tax credits, in the name of cutting government waste. One can hope.
As the event invitation noted—in requesting $2,500 to attend—Mr. Reid’s Nevada Senate competition against Republican Sharron Angle is an “incredibly important race.” Indeed it is if your balance sheets depend on the Democrats’ special way with taxpayer money.
Can Democrats and the Left wise up and chuck windpower and on-grid solar? (Off-grid solar has a free-market niche.) Industrial wind is an environmental loser, not only an economic loser. The good news is that change is in the air as the grassroots environmental movement is rethinking–and rejecting–industrial windpower. When will Big Environmental question Big Wind–or do they secretly love industrial wind because its power is more expensive and less reliable than what industrial society needs?
Monday, September 26, 2011
Obama's $ grab in the ultra-lib fringe zone of W. Hollywood
Obama visit to West Hollywood.
West Ho represents a tiny fringe community of ppl including the largest gay community in USA. West HO is also packed with up and coming/struggling/established actors, actresss, and other folk serving the hollywood entertainment industry. It is a wholly moral-less X- rated zone where U regularly see billboards featuring scantily-clad( and in some cases naked) models, even coupling poses. A walk along sunset strip is a walk thru an x-rated adult- only strip.
WEST HO does not represent America nor the common average working man. It is a tiny fringe of ultra-libs who happen to be making a lot of $ in the dog-eat-dog ruthless hollywood entertainment business. The entire W Hollywood lib zone is only a few square miles of concentrated wealth and nutty libs .
If you see the protests on the national news going on across the street from the House of Blues and Fig and Olive they are almost all by progressive lib groups who outnumber the conservatives in this tiny fringe part of LA by 15 to 1. It is a tiny fringe zone which represents less than 1 % of LA's entire ppl and land area. U may see CBS, ABC, NBC doing live reports tonight on Obama's visit into West Ho, and camera captures of the tiny fringe protestors, This will be beamed all across America and perhaps give the impression that there is this large upwelling & ferment of progressive libs in CA screaming for justice and action on the progressive agenda, This is a wholly false impression.
This West Hollywood crowd does not represent the vast majority of Ca ppl, 20 % of whom are effectively UE, and most of whom care little for the ultra lib agenda. They may demand action on jobs but most sane folks realize that jobs cannot happened without business and corporations boosting hiring. Most sane CA ppl are aware that just pumping tons of gov stim $ has failed. Only reason Dems maintain CA is because of the Hispanic/other minority vote block who have been demagouged into voting Dem.
West Ho represents a tiny fringe community of ppl including the largest gay community in USA. West HO is also packed with up and coming/struggling/established actors, actresss, and other folk serving the hollywood entertainment industry. It is a wholly moral-less X- rated zone where U regularly see billboards featuring scantily-clad( and in some cases naked) models, even coupling poses. A walk along sunset strip is a walk thru an x-rated adult- only strip.
WEST HO does not represent America nor the common average working man. It is a tiny fringe of ultra-libs who happen to be making a lot of $ in the dog-eat-dog ruthless hollywood entertainment business. The entire W Hollywood lib zone is only a few square miles of concentrated wealth and nutty libs .
If you see the protests on the national news going on across the street from the House of Blues and Fig and Olive they are almost all by progressive lib groups who outnumber the conservatives in this tiny fringe part of LA by 15 to 1. It is a tiny fringe zone which represents less than 1 % of LA's entire ppl and land area. U may see CBS, ABC, NBC doing live reports tonight on Obama's visit into West Ho, and camera captures of the tiny fringe protestors, This will be beamed all across America and perhaps give the impression that there is this large upwelling & ferment of progressive libs in CA screaming for justice and action on the progressive agenda, This is a wholly false impression.
This West Hollywood crowd does not represent the vast majority of Ca ppl, 20 % of whom are effectively UE, and most of whom care little for the ultra lib agenda. They may demand action on jobs but most sane folks realize that jobs cannot happened without business and corporations boosting hiring. Most sane CA ppl are aware that just pumping tons of gov stim $ has failed. Only reason Dems maintain CA is because of the Hispanic/other minority vote block who have been demagouged into voting Dem.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Montebello- another 3rd wld LA theft-burg
Montebello: another Bell- type city fraud operation. Montebello City administrators theft of city re-development funds
lat.ms/p8zYwV
http://t.co/pC8W2lw
My comments:
Here's the reality of Montebello (Bello for short). Bello is a rather dismal forgettable bland burg located 15 miles directly east of LA DWTN. It is sited close to the west bank of the San Gabriel/Rio Hondo River. The oldest sections of the city are likely sited on bluffs & hills overlooking the river flood plain. This is where much of the aging factory/ commercial parks are sited. 1/2 of the city is the largely commercialized/industrialized section south of Olympic/Whittier Blvds. This south leg abuts City of Commerce along the western margin and is largely lower-working/laboring class. This mixed industrail/ residential zone is also heavily populated by recent latino immgrants. Ghettoized East LA jabs bello at it's NW margin, and both cities share the near 100% latinoized Whittier Blvd , which is a major east-west regional LA traffic artery, 100 % third world thoroughfare, and well known for latino/cholo cruising events. There is nothing notewothy in Bello.
Farther north near 60 fwy there are scattered areas of somewhat tidy suburban tract homes on Bello's hills, which are plainly visible as you travel along freeway 60 out of LA Dwtn. There is also a few industrail areas sited off 60 fwy. Bello never has been the Beverly Hills of East/SE LA, as latimes mistakenly attributes to it. It has always been the way it is today. Just another map color zone among a 100 or so map colors on an LA thomas guide map. Another bland faceless LA exurb. Bello does have a large Chinese expat presence, as does much of the region north and west of it, but it also is adjacent to East LA and also close to the grimy LA ghettos which encroach it from the south and east. Much ghetto population outflow issues out of the grimy densely packed 3rd world Alameda Corrider( think Bell, Maywood, South Gate, Compton, ect). These cities contain large numbers of illegals/recent latino immigrants which swarm all over LA inner areas and increasingly into outer exurb areas like Bello.
NOTE: I have delivered many times to exurban Bello hilltop residentail areas. They remind me of Baldwin Hills & Silverlake District. All of them exclusive tidy exurban islands surrounded by grimy dank lowland ghettos like isolated celtic hilltop forts.
l also once delivered to a bello business establishment in a small bello commercial park. It was run by asian immigrant expats, and the operation reeked of a scam. It was some type of off- the- books business dealing with exports/ imports and/or a real estate boilerplate operation ( my recollections somewat hazy here). However, it reeked of a shady business scam as does entire corrupt Montebello city administration.
lat.ms/p8zYwV
http://t.co/pC8W2lw
My comments:
Here's the reality of Montebello (Bello for short). Bello is a rather dismal forgettable bland burg located 15 miles directly east of LA DWTN. It is sited close to the west bank of the San Gabriel/Rio Hondo River. The oldest sections of the city are likely sited on bluffs & hills overlooking the river flood plain. This is where much of the aging factory/ commercial parks are sited. 1/2 of the city is the largely commercialized/industrialized section south of Olympic/Whittier Blvds. This south leg abuts City of Commerce along the western margin and is largely lower-working/laboring class. This mixed industrail/ residential zone is also heavily populated by recent latino immgrants. Ghettoized East LA jabs bello at it's NW margin, and both cities share the near 100% latinoized Whittier Blvd , which is a major east-west regional LA traffic artery, 100 % third world thoroughfare, and well known for latino/cholo cruising events. There is nothing notewothy in Bello.
Farther north near 60 fwy there are scattered areas of somewhat tidy suburban tract homes on Bello's hills, which are plainly visible as you travel along freeway 60 out of LA Dwtn. There is also a few industrail areas sited off 60 fwy. Bello never has been the Beverly Hills of East/SE LA, as latimes mistakenly attributes to it. It has always been the way it is today. Just another map color zone among a 100 or so map colors on an LA thomas guide map. Another bland faceless LA exurb. Bello does have a large Chinese expat presence, as does much of the region north and west of it, but it also is adjacent to East LA and also close to the grimy LA ghettos which encroach it from the south and east. Much ghetto population outflow issues out of the grimy densely packed 3rd world Alameda Corrider( think Bell, Maywood, South Gate, Compton, ect). These cities contain large numbers of illegals/recent latino immigrants which swarm all over LA inner areas and increasingly into outer exurb areas like Bello.
NOTE: I have delivered many times to exurban Bello hilltop residentail areas. They remind me of Baldwin Hills & Silverlake District. All of them exclusive tidy exurban islands surrounded by grimy dank lowland ghettos like isolated celtic hilltop forts.
l also once delivered to a bello business establishment in a small bello commercial park. It was run by asian immigrant expats, and the operation reeked of a scam. It was some type of off- the- books business dealing with exports/ imports and/or a real estate boilerplate operation ( my recollections somewat hazy here). However, it reeked of a shady business scam as does entire corrupt Montebello city administration.
Montebello: another Bell- type city fraud operation
LA Times links on Montebello City administrators theft of city redevelopment funds
http://t.co/pC8W2lw
Here's the reality of Montebello (Bello for short). Bello is a rather dismal forgettable bland burg located 15 miles directly east of LA DWTN. It is sited close to the west bank of the San Gabriel/Rio Hondo River. The oldest sections of the city are likely sited on bluffs & hills overlooking the river flood plain. This is where much of the aging factory/ commercial parks are sited. 1/2 of the city is the largely commercialized/industrialized section south of Olympic/Whittier Blvds. This south leg abuts City of Commerce along the western margin and is largely lower-working/laboring class. This mixed industrail/ residential zone is also heavily populated by recent latino immgrants. Ghettoized East LA jabs bello at it's NW margin, and both cities share the near 100% latinoized Whittier Blvd , which is a major east-west regional LA traffic artery, 100 % third world thoroughfare, and well known for latino/cholo cruising events. There is nothing notewothy in Bello.
Farther north near 60 fwy there are scattered areas of somewhat tidy suburban tract homes on Bello's hills, which are plainly visible as you travel along freeway 60 out of LA Dwtn. There is also a few industrail areas sited off 60 fwy. Bello never has been the Beverly Hills of East/SE LA, as latimes mistakenly attributes to it. It has always been the way it is today. Just another map color zone among a 100 or so map colors on an LA thomas guide map. Another bland faceless LA exurb. Bello does have a large Chinese expat presence, as does much of the region north and west of it, but it also is adjacent to East LA and also close to the grimy LA ghettos which encroach it from the south and east. Much ghetto population outflow issues out of the grimy densely packed 3rd world Alameda Corrider( think Bell, Maywood, South Gate, Compton, ect). These cities contain large numbers of illegals/recent latino immigrants which swarm all over LA inner areas and increasingly into outer exurb areas like Bello.
NOTE: I have delivered many times to exurban Bello hilltop residentail areas. They remind me of Baldwin Hills & Silverlake District. All of them exclusive tidy exurban islands surrounded by grimy dank lowland ghettos like isolated celtic hilltop forts.
l also once delivered to a bello business establishment in a small bello commercial park. It was run by asian immigrant expats, and the operation reeked of a scam. It was some type of off- the- books business dealing with exports/ imports and/or a real estate boilerplate operation ( my recollections somewat hazy here). However, it reeked of a shady business scam as does entire corrupt Montebello city administration.
http://t.co/pC8W2lw
Here's the reality of Montebello (Bello for short). Bello is a rather dismal forgettable bland burg located 15 miles directly east of LA DWTN. It is sited close to the west bank of the San Gabriel/Rio Hondo River. The oldest sections of the city are likely sited on bluffs & hills overlooking the river flood plain. This is where much of the aging factory/ commercial parks are sited. 1/2 of the city is the largely commercialized/industrialized section south of Olympic/Whittier Blvds. This south leg abuts City of Commerce along the western margin and is largely lower-working/laboring class. This mixed industrail/ residential zone is also heavily populated by recent latino immgrants. Ghettoized East LA jabs bello at it's NW margin, and both cities share the near 100% latinoized Whittier Blvd , which is a major east-west regional LA traffic artery, 100 % third world thoroughfare, and well known for latino/cholo cruising events. There is nothing notewothy in Bello.
Farther north near 60 fwy there are scattered areas of somewhat tidy suburban tract homes on Bello's hills, which are plainly visible as you travel along freeway 60 out of LA Dwtn. There is also a few industrail areas sited off 60 fwy. Bello never has been the Beverly Hills of East/SE LA, as latimes mistakenly attributes to it. It has always been the way it is today. Just another map color zone among a 100 or so map colors on an LA thomas guide map. Another bland faceless LA exurb. Bello does have a large Chinese expat presence, as does much of the region north and west of it, but it also is adjacent to East LA and also close to the grimy LA ghettos which encroach it from the south and east. Much ghetto population outflow issues out of the grimy densely packed 3rd world Alameda Corrider( think Bell, Maywood, South Gate, Compton, ect). These cities contain large numbers of illegals/recent latino immigrants which swarm all over LA inner areas and increasingly into outer exurb areas like Bello.
NOTE: I have delivered many times to exurban Bello hilltop residentail areas. They remind me of Baldwin Hills & Silverlake District. All of them exclusive tidy exurban islands surrounded by grimy dank lowland ghettos like isolated celtic hilltop forts.
l also once delivered to a bello business establishment in a small bello commercial park. It was run by asian immigrant expats, and the operation reeked of a scam. It was some type of off- the- books business dealing with exports/ imports and/or a real estate boilerplate operation ( my recollections somewat hazy here). However, it reeked of a shady business scam as does entire corrupt Montebello city administration.
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