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Green Energy Failure Leaves Millions in North America ‘Freezing in the Dark’
Feb. 17 , 2021 (EIRNS) Planned and unplanned electricity blackouts continue to affect millions of people and slam basic economic activity across the central North American continent, directly due to the years of implementation of the green energy policy of suppression of high-technology generation, and installation of so-called alternative wind and solar, low-tech swindles.
This has put the issue front and center, that the green insanity must stop. For example, the Kansas Senate Utilities Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Thompson (R-Shawnee) said on Facebook this week, “Wind turbines are frozen up. Solar is useless. This is why the expansion of renewables is dangerous for us going forward. We are putting too much reliance on sources that cannot meet our needs, especially in times like this.” He also said that nuclear energy “should be in the mix.” In opposition
Published: Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Natural gas in USA collage. Photo credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Pikrepo(gas flame); Freepik (gas flames); Jeffrey Tomich/E&E News (text)
Several Republican-led states including Kansas and Indiana have moved to block local governments from enacting bans on new natural gas hookups, even as city councils across the country look for ways to meet climate goals. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Pikrepo(gas flame); Freepik (gas flames); Jeffrey Tomich/E&E News (text)
The Berkeley, Calif., City Council passed the nation s first ban on natural gas hookups for new buildings in the summer of 2019.