Confidential memo - Conservative Think Tanks Step up Attacks on Clean Energy

[drm604]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/08/conservative-thinktanks-obama-energy-plans

Confidential memo seen by Guardian calls for climate change sceptics to turn American public against solar and wind power

"These documents show for the first time that local Nimby anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry," said Gabe Elsner, a co-director of the Checks and Balances, the accountability group which unearthed the proposal and other documents.

This is something which has been obvious to many of us. I've seen obvious anti-wind propaganda by local NIMBY astroturf groups right here on DU.

It's good to see some actual undeniable proof of this.

[drm604]

1. I thought that this would get more interest.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. They tried to get rid of public transport in the 70s.

This does not surprise me at all. Chesapeake's Aubrey McClendon is bitching all the time about how Obama's all of the above strategy focuses too much on green. Well, yeah. Renewable energy should be the focus with everything else serving as BACKUP not as the solution. They could make money from the wind and solar infrastructure as well. They're just too shortsighted to figure that out apparently.