Jonathan Turley reports,
“[A] long-withheld report from the Biden Administration directly contradicted the claims of climate change used to limit increased U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. The suggestion is that this was an knowing effort to cap carbon admissions rather than carbon emissions. The impact that new U.S. LNG exports have on the environment and the economy was reviewed by U.S. Energy Department scientists and completed by September 2023. It appears that neither President Biden nor Secretary Jennifer Granholm liked the science or the conclusions. Rather than “follow the science,” they buried the report while allegedly making claims directly refuted by their own experts…The draft study, “Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports,” found that, under all modeled scenarios, an increase in U.S. LNG exports and natural gas production would not change global or U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. It further found that it would not increase energy prices for consumers. Biden and Granholm reportedly buried the report and then announced a pause on all new U.S. LNG export terminals in January 2024, citing the danger to environmental and economic impacts.”
Gee what a surprise.
But seriously folks, anyone who is even faintly surprised at this development hasn’t been watching, listening or paying attention to either the “science of cliamte change” or the debate over energy policy. What is far from “settled science” is deliberately presented as a consensus. Policies that harm the U.S. economy and consumers have been regularly inflicted on the nation as pure virtue-signaling to the Left, with full knowledge that they can’t possibly have any effect on the world’s climate, present or future. And revealing that the Biden Administration engaged in public deception….well, this is a group that regularly manipulated government employment figures, Wuhan virus pandemic statistics and social media to control public opinion as much as as possible.
Heck, this is a group that hid who was really wielding power in the White House! Hiding a study that doesn’t support a Democrat-Progressive world view? Totalitarianism 101, and the Democratic Party is poisoned by a totalitarian-trending political culture now, as we repeatedly saw during the last four years.
My only problem with Turley’s analysis is that it is thinly sourced, because apparently only Fox News has covered the story so far. I searched for it at the New York Times site: nada. If the story is somewhere in the Times, then the news story is being buried like the study itself…or this is another example of the partisan divide in our unethical “journalism” making it impossible for the public to find out what’s really going on.
That wouldn’t be shocking either.
Ethics Alarms 
A florid, pro-alternative energy television commercial has mysteriously shown up on Tucson local television during sporting events. It features video of all sorts of solar and wind power projects and says farmers are making a fortune allowing people to fill up their farms with solar panels and wind turbines. It’s very strange. Then Juan Ciscomani, a local Republican Congressman, pops up on the screen and says he supports an “all of the above” energy policy. Then there’s a tag that shows the commercial is funded by some private equity group or other that’s obviously doing Build Back “Better” projects and making a fortune.
As Francis Menton at The Manhattan Contrarian has been stating for years, the “all of the above” energy policy is the WORST way to go. It seems to some to sound wonderful. People think, “Hey, wind and sun are free, heck yeah let’s make them into electricity!” But when it doesn’t blow and the sun don’t shine, you need one hundred percent thermal backup. So, we’re paying for two very expensive energy systems. And the alternative system probably costs multiples of the thermal system. Morons! Can you imagine what landfills are going to look like when all these square miles of solar panels and acres of wind turbines are going to be eradicated as folly? Makes my blood boil enough I could generate electricity.
Old Bill,
The turbine blades are so large that they often do not properly fit in a general use landfill appropriately, and so are often put in a specially designed landfill instead, which fill up at alarming paces. They can’t be recycled and this is a major issue. Here is a picture of the landfill issues here in my state.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/01/by-2050-used-wind-turbine-blades-will-exceed-43-million-tons-of-waste-every-year/
If you choose to Google “wind turbine blades in landfill picture”, you’ll get a lot of links on this topic for further reading. I had thought to link more, but remembered that it would send me to Word Press Jail and didn’t want to beg Jack to bail me out.
In addition, we are only talking about the turbine blades. The central column, which is, of course, much bigger is a large issue that people talk about even less. These are 10-15 ft diameter at the base and run from 90 meters to 150 meters tall. They are steel and damned expensive to take down with an average decomissioning cost of about $600,000 per turbine. As a note, farmers typically $250K-750K from the turbine, according to the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commission. I had a hard time finding exact costs in the US, but the general economics seems to run this way across the globe. Due to the costs involved in taking these down, most companies and private individuals just leave them in the ground to rot.
The discussion isn’t finished with the blades and column though. To install a wind turbine, you have to consider that this massive structure reaches high into the sky. It requires a huge platform to support itself. Here is a picture of how this is changing as we continue to require larger and larger turbines for our “all of the above” energy policies.
This footing is a huge concrete and steel monstrosity that is not landfilled, or removed, but generally it is left in the ground, costing even more for removal than the rest of the mess. Sometimes people will take off the above ground topper seen above, but rarely will anyone remove the huge below ground concrete footing as that requires excavation and backfilling, which is costly and gains no profit, even in the usual non-tangibles such as overcoming NIMBY-ism.
This is a long winded way of agreeing with you that this is a disaster, and my blood pressure could also generate electricity over this issue.
I still remember what my longtime usenet ally, Christopher Charles Morton, wrote.
https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=381367&p=4533583#post4533583
The apparent premise of the Democrat party is that working and middle class American CITIZENS live too well and need to be punished for it.
FUCK JOE BIDEN
I saw some report that there is a sex scandal involving RFK Jr. A sex scandal involving a Kennedy may knock this out of the running.
True.