The Department of Public Service has just released its 2022 Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP). Aside from the “stakeholders,” it’s probably fair to say that very few Vermonters — and very few of their legislators — will be able to penetrate the CEP’s acronym-ridden complexities.
The basic crux of the law mandates that Vermont must lower its greenhouse gas emissions to 26% below 2005 levels by 2025, 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80% below by 2050.
The White House’s information page on ARPA list three primary bullet points for what the money under this plan should be used for. There is nothing there about climate change.
The IPCC report raises a number of fundamental questions. For example, is global warming a net positive change, negative, or some mix in between? What is the pace of future warming, and do we have trustworthy tools to make educated guesses?
The Burlington School Board is moving forward with plans for a new high school and technical center despite that decision being based on an apparent miscalculation by the Vermont Health Department regarding PCB safety levels in schools.
The Climate Action Plan is roughly the equivalent of a child’s finger paint drawing of a house, complete with a big yellow, smiley-face sun in the sky above.
Admonishing Americans, many of whom live paycheck-to-paycheck, that they could avoid the economic harm of higher gasoline prices by buying high-cost EVs is an arrogant response to a problem the administration itself has caused by restricting crude oil supplies and production.
In all three instances at issue is the liberty to live in the backwoods, beyond the asphalt roads, bringing in firewood for the long winters, and teaching self-reliance to their children to help them become sturdy and true Vermonters.
Vermonters could alter this self-destructive, authoritarian course by electing new legislators with common sense, energy realism and respect for the rights of Vermonters to decide for themselves what kind of car to drive and how to heat their homes.
The Climate Action Plan is a manifesto, primarily, from a cadre of non-profit organization members, who have a goal to self-perpetuate their organizations and labor unions by creating a 27-year annuity. By doing so, they have control over the lives of Vermont residents and businesses.
A California environmental regulator approved a measure banning new purchases of small off-road engines including leaf blowers and lawn mowers beginning in 2024.
The majority of Burlington residents are on board with supporting a “net-zero” energy policy via a $20 million Net Zero Energy Revenue Bond for the Burlington Electric Department. However, a $40 million General Obligation bond for infrastructure failed.