THOMAS MITCHELL: Confessions of a green-power welfare queen - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com

According to a story by Business writer Jennifer Robison this past week, the current cost to residential power customers in Nevada is about 13 cents per kwh, but a national survey found the average cost of solar-generated power in June was nearly 35 cents per kwh.

What NV Energy has contracted to pay for green power is not yet known. Knowledgeable sources speculate some wholesale contract rates might be as much as four or five times the current retail rates.

Do the math. If 25 percent of your future power consumption costs merely three times as much more, your power bill would "necessarily skyrocket," as President Obama once said, by at least 50 percent.

PR-CANADA.net - Federal Cap and Trade Legislation Will Stall Michigan's Manufacturing Engine

"The ACCF study reinforces what many others have already predicted - that cap-and-tax legislation will result in skyrocketing energy bills and massive job losses," said Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI). "Kerry-Lieberman puts a bullseye squarely on the backs of Michigan's working families who are already struggling to keep the lights on. In Michigan where nearly one out of every five folks is out of work, jobs must be our top priority, not a national energy tax."

I'm glad the Gore sex case has been reopened - Salon.com

While some of the details sound risible, Gore admirers shouldn't just assume a woman invented a story of abuse

Cash, not climate change, is altering driver behaviour - Herald Scotland

Motorists have turned their backs on concerns about climate change thanks to the recession’s grip on Britain, a survey has found.

An RAC poll found that the environment had slipped down the list of priorities over the last year while saving money on petrol bills had gained importance. The survey suggests the UK and Holyrood governments now face an uphill task persuading drivers to cut their carbon emissions.

The results make for gloomy reading among policy-makers as transport accounts for around a quarter of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions and is one of the few sectors where emissions are set to increase.

Most worrying is the proportion of motorists who feel that their actions have little impact on the environment – about a third of those polled said they would drive regardless of the environmental impact, while an equal proportion believed either nothing they did would make a difference or were not sure if it would make a difference.

Bolivia’s UN ambassador: ‘We need a global climate movement’ | Green Left Weekly

[Q] There was an informal working group at Cochabamba, Group 18. What do you think of their criticism that Bolivia is still an economy based on extraction industries, and that mining and natural gas exploitation should be stopped? That there is a contradiction between the international discourse of the Bolivian government and your country’s local development model?

[A] The problem is that you cannot change everything in four years. Bolivia’s main resource is gas, and if we are able to have growing employment and we are able to have growing salaries and we are able to have more social benefits, it’s because we have nationalised gas.

So if we were to just shut down our gas, we would be committing suicide.