Green Energy Times

Who wants to build a risky, dirty 1,700 mile oil pipeline across America’s heartland? Big Oil and their lobbyists, that’s who. Guess who else? Their political puppets.

A bill that would make it easier for more people to generate their own electricity received overwhelming approval in the Vermont House of Representatives Tuesday.

Establish a solar city program in the Rutland area, resulting in Rutland County becoming the leading solar generation center in Vermont.7

Vermont Yankee Decision …”I believe the law is very clear, and that states have the right to reject nuclear power for economic and other non-safety reasons”.… Land of the Free? How can this be?

Entergy could have prevented that by doing more hands-on inspection of the towers… the first tower failure was a result of over-tightened bolts and salt and mold degradation that went undetected…

We have until 2017 to get our carbon emissions down!

… burning coal from the proposed mine would also be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, which experts say are now growing faster than previously anticipated worst case scenarios.

This is a critically important issue for our environment and the energy future of our country. At a time when all credible scientific evidence and opinion indicate that we are losing the battle against global warming, it is imperative that we have objective environmental assessments of major carbon-dependent energy projects.

SolarGMP pays customers six cents per kilowatthour for all the solar energy they produce. GMP would rather pay its customers to produce solar power, especially during peak demand times, rather than buy expensive power from out of state.

The newest issue of Green Energy Times (G.E.T.) – October 15, 2011 is available on-line and in a town near you this week!