Buffalo Lake ethanol plant closes amid allegations of wrongdoing | StarTribune.com

A recently reopened ethanol plant in Buffalo Lake, Minn., has again been shuttered and its top executives fired amid a bitter bankruptcy case laced with conflicting allegations of wrongdoing.
...Larry Johnson, a veteran ethanol industry consultant who is not connected to the case, said in an interview that working ethanol plants lately have sold for about 50 cents per gallon of annual output. That amounts to only $12.5 million based on the Buffalo Lake plant’s capacity. Johnson said some plants have sold recently for even less.

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Hey, hear the one about Paul Douglas, Don Shelby, & Al Gore going to a Twins game in April? A foot of snow & a $500 million subsidy later...

Slingo’s Credibility Takes Another Battering | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Why was Slingo so adamant a week earlier, that declining Arctic ice was responsible for the recent freeze, when she knew full well that there was no evidence at all to back up her claims?

These concerns pose serious questions about Slingo’s competence, honesty and objectivity, both on a personal level, and in her role as Chief Scientist. Her position is surely becoming increasingly untenable.

Solar Inefficiency: More solar workers than coal miners in U.S. but coal provides 210 times more electricity | JunkScience.com

The heavily subsidized solar industry is little more than workfare.

Climate Change Dispatch | Because the debate is NOT over

This report positively concludes that an alleged near unanimous scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), that “the science is settled”, is overstated. The report finds a robust, critical scientific discourse in climate related research, yet it highlights that a “consensus-building” approach to science might represent a politicised and unscientific belief in science – a belief in tension with the ethos of “normal science”. The report calls for a continuing questioning, critical, and undogmatic public debate over man-made global warming, and a clearer separation between science and policy. --Consensus and Controversy, SINTEF April 2013