“Today marks a historic milestone for Rhode Island and Massachusetts as we join forces to drive the largest offshore wind procurement in New England’s history,” Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said in a statement. “Together with Massachusetts, we are setting a precedent for regional collaboration in clean energy and advancing a sustainable, resilient future.”
At $8.18 – adding the top Clean Heat Standard fee estimate to the current per/gallon cost of heating oil – filling up a 250 gallon oil tank would cost $2,045.
This week all legislative and gubernatorial candidates will be asked: “How will you vote on the Clean Heat Standard come January?”
A question every Vermonter should demand every candidate answer RIGHT NOW.
Vermont has been a “California Car” state for many years, along with several of our neighbors.
D.o.E. has selected the Power Up New England proposal to receive up to $389 million from the federal agency’s competitive Grid Innovation Program.
Clean Heat Standard was designed for the benefit of special interest groups and climate legislators with no understanding of economics, science, or Vermonters.
“If you want to get rid of small fuel providers and eliminate the competition, this is an ideal program,” Proctor Gas owner and Vermont Fuel Dealers President Judy Taranovich said.
Spews misinformation about her Party’s misleadingly named “Affordable Heat Act” fiasco.
Two maxims that used to be part of investigative journalism have now fallen to the public: (1) do your own research and (2) follow the money.
“It’s hard for Vermonters to know if we have an Attorney General who is willing to fight to protect our taxpayers from what could be an expensive lawsuit.”-Dame
California claims climate impacts as a significant component of the predicted economic benefit of the 100% EV mandate, state officials agree.
Would require $3.20 per gallon carbon tax on home heating fuel.
Vermont emissions are in steady decline. The Legislature’s carbon reductions will cost $17 billion. House Speaker blame the Koch Brothers.
Government counts solar panel arrays as agricultural lands.
“Instead of spending money on Vermont and Vermonters – roads, housing, services – Vermonters money will go to lawyers and Vermont will be forced to pass destructive ‘punish and penalize’ laws as we are currently experiencing,” GWSA opponent Alison Despathy said.
This means the government is going to use its funds to help purchase Vermonter’s gas vehicles and offer them discounts on electric vehicles, despite some red flags.
Environmentalist: I conclude that although RGGI has been effective raising revenues it is not an effective CO2 emission reduction program.
Even if the grid is working, if people can’t afford paying their electric bill and have no other fuel source as a back-up, they won’t be able to cook or heat.
The bill being considered contains language that would mandate environmental protection and conservation 30% of VT’s land by 2030, and 50% of VT’s land by 2050
More testimony damns this damnable law.
If you really want to lower “global emissions”…
Due to the closing of the solar bridge, Vermont’s solar power installation industry must either pay the ‘toll’ at the bridge, or ‘detour’ to another source of solar panels. Either way, the added cost will be reflected in consumer pricing.
Fuel companies should stop doing business in Vermont. The State is, after all, in a huge hurry to get to its all-electric, no-fossil-fuel paradise.
The rise of the Informer State.
John has decades experience working in VT Government, protecting the environment and Vermonters, and then watching it fall into greed and “Green” corruption.
VT gas prices are noted in the media as being stable, but some sources are not discussing the causes, like that President Biden may be depleting oil reserves.
ISO-New England declares a Power Caution when it is concerned it may lack enough reserve power to provide electricity due to an unforeseen power shortage.
Vermont citizens will need to come together and agree that whatever the deal may be, their current crop of “leaders” does not have their best interests at heart
It is too bad Vermont and New York legislators can’t be honest. Their states need money to address years of neglect of their infrastructure.
Plain and simple, the supermajority chose REV and VPIRG, special interest groups, and their high cost, impulsive Renewable Energy Standard.
“These cuts represent the seventh reduction to net metering compensation since 2017, a period that has seen a 32% drop in net metering installations,” Peter Sterling of industry trade group Renewable Energy Vermont said June 5.
The RES Series, Part II: The advice of Annette Smith, Executive Director, Vermonters for a Clean Environment (VCE).
With iSun filing for bankruptcy, one might wonder if legislators will think twice about overriding the Governor’s veto of H.289.
The RES Series Part I: The interests of renewable energy industrialists versus those of Vermont and the the environment.
Net-metering is the costliest of the State’s renewable energy programs, and that the pace of net-metering installations far exceeds the pace of other less costly renewable energy projects.
We’ll have propane “as long as we have elastics in our underwear,” Anderson laughed. “So we should use it.”
The much-touted first Tesla dealership in VT opened in March in South Burlington, but some would-be buyers of its popular EVs still can’t get cars there.
This gem from Gemma: “My electric bill [plus rent increase] could go up ninety dollars a month…. Now I’m willing to pay a little bit more if it means a cleaner environment. But the reality is I don’t want to pay THAT much more.”
Former State Senator John Rodgers noted while on the Morning Drive Radio show Friday the amount of special interests influencing state energy policy.
The guv’s path to 100% carbon free electricity is cheaper and quicker. The Legislature wants to take the longer, more expensive road, paved with solar farms and wind turbines.
A million barrels of gasoline set aside for emergency use in the next disaster will be sold to reduce prices at the pump this summer.
It is clear to me that offshore is not as steady as the pro-wind rhetoric would have you believe.
No public show up; person hired to explain the program admits he doesn’t understand it; reveals chaos behind the scenes.
While still in the design phase at the Public Utilities Commission, the economic devastation of Act 18 is already hitting home for small fuel dealers.
This week Vermont Senate passed the Renewable Energy Standard bill (H.289) by a vote of 18-8.
It was neatly summed up by TAG member Christopher Trombly’s revelation, “We’re taxing the poor so that the rich can benefit.”
Growing food on a continent where hunger is still a reality for many, an African farmer calls out EU error and hypocrisy for criticizing fossil-fuel fertilizer.
Vermont is the sixth state in the country to install fast chargers under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.
Every state senator elected with VPIRG campaign contributions has voted yes on S.259, VPIRG’s Superfund bill.
Nearly a year after passage the most basic concepts around “the plan” remain unaddressed.
The Public Utilities Commission shouldn’t have given Vermont Gas a pass on post-permit changes to its pipeline construction, the Vermont Supreme Court says.
So what’s really going on here? Why is the State of Vermont willing to flick away a source of affordable, carbon free power that promotes tourism, created a beautiful state park, and even protects loons?
These solar panel fields belong with the same type of construction that they embody, not in the middle of our natural landscapes, an opponent of an industrial solar plan says.
The bizarre testimony of the Renewable Energy Vermont executive director.
The true environmental damage from EV mandates.
Like all renewable energy, hydropower is at the mercy of Mother Nature.
The Floor Report: 03/21/2024.
Behind The Lines columnist Rob Roper comes out from behind the keyboard to expose an anti-fossil fuel lobbyist’s hypocrisy.
Some things never change.
Sponsoring Rep. deploys word salad to avoid stating truths about the bill.
The crisis has regulators scrambling.
Concerned about Burlington’s McNeil power plant? The state energy court is holding a hearing tonight.
A transmission corridor bringing Hydro-Quebec power to New England through the Northeast Kingdom appears to have been shelved.
The dark side of H.289, 100% renewable electricity by 2030: when all else fails, Dem’s resort to renewables-shaming
The same influential lobby group that wants to remove local control from energy siting also wants ratepayers to pay more to fund the reconstruction of Vermont’s energy grid.
Two House committees punt on the billion-dollar price-tag of an energy bill rumored to be ‘the Speaker’s bill drafted by a renewable energy lobbying organization.
The Public Utilities Commission ‘checkback’ report resisted by climate hawk supporters of the Clean Heat Standard has been issued – and it’s not good news for them.
Sales tips for selling luxury EVs to Vermonters.
No funding to pay people to design the program, let alone run it!
A federal judge says Vermont courts are a fitting venue for the State’s lawsuit against Exxon for alleged harmful climate change policies.
Renewable Energy Vermont, Sen. White, and industry lawyers like Wilschek are determined to clear the path for their profit-driven renewable energy projects, including removing us “NIMBY” Vermonters.
Sen. White has turned this situation upside down. Aesthetics has nothing to do with it. Poor towns have been targeted because they are vulnerable to monetary promises.
A utility industry lawyer claims “NIMBYs” (Not In My Backyard) oppposing wind and solar projects have “captured” the energy siting regulatory process with their “self-interested and occasionally irrational opposition.”
A 2.2 megawatt wood-chip burning plant is proposed for the St. Johnsbury industrial park.
Due to the reporting and video, it is clear the State of Vermont is collecting my data directly from fuel companies that I privately buy from.
The General Assembly (G.A.) cannot enforce us to abandon our cars or oil heaters.
A perfect storm of legislative incompetence and bureaucratic bumbling.
More ideological virtue signaling with other people’s money.
Vermont received $32 million of federal carrots to set carbon reduction goals.
Soviet-style central planning does not work!
Proponents of climate change action are increasingly coming to terms with the factual reality that renewable energy manufacturing cannot possibly provide the baseload of power the world requires.
Democrat does his best to paraphrase Principal Skinner.
Burlington’s outgoing Mayor lists what he’d like to see Vermont do for energy affordability and climate,
This occurs while online pundits note that the Green Mountain State seems to be following closely California’s costly green energy policies.
Restrictions include the sale of general purpose, indoor/outdoor, residential, and business mercury-containing four-foot linear, compact fluorescent, and twist-based fluorescent lightbulbs.
High cost, poor service, and exorbitant battery replacement costs are among the complaints listed in ‘one star’ reviews.
71 percent of Vermonters oppose any carbon tax/fee/surcharge on gasoline and diesel, 59 percent strongly oppose it. So, lawmakers, how about you listen to your constituents for a change?
China is now building 22 of the 58 reactors under construction around the world, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The country currently operates 55 reactors.
Residents of the Bennington County town of Stamford fought back against an aggressive, well funded-wind tower proposal and won on December 7, when the developer announced it had dropped the project.
The panel features Secretary Julie Moore from the Agency of Natural Resources; Rob Roper, a public policy analyst & writer; Rep. Mark Higley, Orleans – LaMoille; JT Dodge, No Carbon Tax Vermont; Neale F. Lunderville, President Vermont Gas; and Matt Cota, formerly of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association.
Even when the books are cooked, the numbers still don’t add up. And our virtue-signaling lawmakers know it.
The “Make Big Oil Pay” hypocrisy.
The “fee” would charge non-compliant new and/or large commercial buildings or renovations upfront for the expected lifetime carbon emissions.
Counting up the real cost of virtue-car EVs.
The Public Utilities Commission rubs salt in the wound for struggling Vermonters just trying to stay warm.
A panel of five experts on the topic will discuss Global Warming Solutions Acts, Home heat, Carbon Tax, Fossil Fuels, and the Energy Grid and more.
The proposal utilizes roadway burial and existing transmission corridors in Vermont and New Hampshire to deliver 1,200 MW of Canadian hydro and other non-fossil fuel energy.
Renewable Energy Standard committee keeps the truth to themselves about favoring special interests, despite concerns and the impacts of their legislation.
What incentive do companies have to keep the carbon sequestered or monitored? What is to prevent companies from discharging toxic waste as effluent?
