Skeptic's Corner: Plant Food and Dirty Harry

So in one fell swoop without a word being written we are left with the impression that steam from power plants is the same as the smog in Los Angeles and this all has to do with Carbon Dioxide which is a harmless odorless natural element necessary for life on earth, plant food. Wow ain't journalism special.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Rudd out to destroy Aussie energy industry

"What is at stake here is the future of the energy market. If nothing is done, power stations are likely to be bankrupted, and if they closed, then there would be problems with electricity supply, or more likely governments would have to step in to take them over, and that would unravel the last 10 years' hard work to set up a national electricity market."

An ESAA survey found the energy sector would need to find $50billion for refinancing over the next five years, $6.3 billion for planned spending on existing assets, $12 billion for new lower-emission generation and $31billion for investments in the electricity networks."

Lincoln official faces ethics questions - Bangor Daily News

LINCOLN — Town Councilor Rod Carr recused himself from a 4-2 vote awarding First Wind of Massachusetts a 20-year tax break Monday after he was accused of a conflict of interest in working as a paid lobbyist for landowners who would benefit from the project.

Carr looked down, stonefaced, as attorney Lynne A. Williams read a one-page letter to Carr dated Monday in which she wrote that H.C. Haynes Inc. and W.T. Gardner and Sons had paid $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, in 2008 “for your lobbying on behalf of their interests.”