We are in the middle of writing a series of articles on how our over reliance of "expertise" is creating a dependency and enabling more corruption. As Mark Twain said "An expert is just an ordinary fellow from another town" and MPSC and Cole's actions just demonstrated how wise that pithy statement is.
The notion that we should let government experts decide how we can/can't live our lives is clearly flawed. This is why it is ***SO*** important for the average citizen to get involved, get educated, ask a lot of questions on these issues, vote, and put themselves out there as potential candidates for office. As the administrative state takes more and more control, it behooves all of us to make sure we're doing what we can to stay acutely aware of what authority is being given to government agencies.
Why local ordinances are a necessary solution for wind, solar and batteries. When something like these types of generation that affect a county to a huge extent - locals need to be the ones in the drivers seat of the building and construction of these sites.
If you don't like what they do, then you can vote them out!
Curious: how do changes to zoning regs affect these policy decisions to increase "replaceables?" [I've read Behind the Green Mask by Rosa Koire outlining the role the UN Agenda 21 plays in zoning for "smart" growth and 15min walkable cities.]
A lot of these decisions are intertwined and funded by the next level up. The feds have passed special tax policy (PTC/ITC) that aid in the decision to build more wind/solar and have also passed bills like the Inflation Reduction Act that lavish billions of newly printed tax dollars onto states, wind/solar developers, and utilities. The states lap those dollars up. They use them as an incentive to pass state legislation that mandates more and more wind/solar (because "we don't want to miss out on those federal funds!!")
In Patrick Wood's book Technocracy Rising, he described how Federal dollars, from bills like the Inflation Reduction Act, do not flow directly to the states. Rather they flow from the federal gov't to NGOs who then tell the states what the rules are to receive the funds.
Good point. A lot of the dollars are flowing to NGOs. I've heard stories from friends and colleagues that work in DC describing how the environmental NGOs were swimming in so much money after the passage of the IRA that they didn't know how to spend it all.
We are in the middle of writing a series of articles on how our over reliance of "expertise" is creating a dependency and enabling more corruption. As Mark Twain said "An expert is just an ordinary fellow from another town" and MPSC and Cole's actions just demonstrated how wise that pithy statement is.
The notion that we should let government experts decide how we can/can't live our lives is clearly flawed. This is why it is ***SO*** important for the average citizen to get involved, get educated, ask a lot of questions on these issues, vote, and put themselves out there as potential candidates for office. As the administrative state takes more and more control, it behooves all of us to make sure we're doing what we can to stay acutely aware of what authority is being given to government agencies.
Why local ordinances are a necessary solution for wind, solar and batteries. When something like these types of generation that affect a county to a huge extent - locals need to be the ones in the drivers seat of the building and construction of these sites.
If you don't like what they do, then you can vote them out!
Curious: how do changes to zoning regs affect these policy decisions to increase "replaceables?" [I've read Behind the Green Mask by Rosa Koire outlining the role the UN Agenda 21 plays in zoning for "smart" growth and 15min walkable cities.]
A lot of these decisions are intertwined and funded by the next level up. The feds have passed special tax policy (PTC/ITC) that aid in the decision to build more wind/solar and have also passed bills like the Inflation Reduction Act that lavish billions of newly printed tax dollars onto states, wind/solar developers, and utilities. The states lap those dollars up. They use them as an incentive to pass state legislation that mandates more and more wind/solar (because "we don't want to miss out on those federal funds!!")
I haven't read "Behind the Green Mask," but there is definitely a push from international bodies like the U.N. toward the energy transition and promote policies like 15-minute cities. They've been pushing a lot of that sort of thing since the early 90s at least. I wrote about the Y2Y, A2A, and rewilding over 20 years ago. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/science-fiction-or-science-fact-grizzly-biology-behind-parks-canada-management-models
In Patrick Wood's book Technocracy Rising, he described how Federal dollars, from bills like the Inflation Reduction Act, do not flow directly to the states. Rather they flow from the federal gov't to NGOs who then tell the states what the rules are to receive the funds.
Good point. A lot of the dollars are flowing to NGOs. I've heard stories from friends and colleagues that work in DC describing how the environmental NGOs were swimming in so much money after the passage of the IRA that they didn't know how to spend it all.
But there are also a lot of funds going to the states to cover various green programs. Whitmer just came out and announced another round of federal funding "to boost Michigan's green initiatives." https://www.wkar.org/wkar-news/2024-05-20/whitmer-announces-federal-funding-to-boost-michigans-green-initiatives
With little money laundering shenanigans I'm sure 🙄
You know, with the 2017 Tax Cuts creating opportunity zones and FASB 56 allowing secret accounting records (aka stealing from the Treasury).