Friday’s Bad Bill of the Week on HB 1139 featured just another instance of needless and inefficient “green legislation.” What happens when corporations can’t meet the standards imposed upon them? Yesterday, according to newsobserver.com, over six separate utilities corporations, including Progress Energy out of Raleigh, appealed to the Energy Commission for an extension on meeting [...]
Environment & Energy Archives
NC Senators Determined to Jump Start “Fracking”
A new bill surfaced in the state Senate to set rules and authorize drilling for natural gas under the surface of North Carolina. The legislature passed Senate bill 709 that would have done the same thing but Governor Perdue vetoed it last year. Senator Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg) introduced SB820 in the Senate Commerce Committee to [...]
2012 Hurricane Predictions Cause Sadness on the Left
The annual hurricane predictions are in and, surprisingly, the season looks to be only “average,” producing a “normal” number of tempests, according to WRAL (this is a sad day for WRAL, and the liberal mass media in general). I guess the omniscient hurricane predictors were tired of being wrong year after year regarding their predictions, [...]
Supply, Demand, and Green Energy
Examples have been abundant for years that government subsidies of the green movement are nothing but bad news, and they’re not slowing down. With Solyndra’s collapse still fresh in the public’s mind, a new report has found that despite ghastly amounts of money poured into green jobs, the industry is buckling under pressure to perform. [...]
Legislation Being Drafted to get Shale Gas Drilling on Track in North Carolina
Now that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) says shale drilling or “fracking” could be done safely in North Carolina lawmakers are going ahead with legislation to set up the framework for rules and funding. Rep. Mitch Gillespie (R-McDowell) says a bill will be ready for the upcoming session beginning April 23. Gillespie [...]
