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Chinese Wind Turbines Contain Cancer-Causing Asbestos

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Eagles and whales are not the only creatures put at risk by the hideous turbines moonbats construct as intrusive monuments to their dominance. They may jeopardize people too.

Via Breitbart:

Asbestos has been found in at least 1,000 wind turbines throughout the UK after components containing the banned substance were imported from China, sparking concerns about worker safety and prompting calls for a government investigation.

Gasps Louise Gilmour, secretary of the trade union GMB Scotland:

“Our country banned asbestos decades ago because it was killing workers and their families, but we now pay for it to be ferried here from the other side of the world and then pay again to remove it?”

To top it off, wind turbines are not an economically efficient means of generating electricity — unlike the plentiful oil underneath the nearby North Sea. But on the plus side, in addition to turning a nice profit for our ChiCom adversaries, wind turbines allow left-wing politicians to launder taxpayer money to pay off their donors. Also, they propitiate the weather gods worshiped by liberals.

On a tip from abcanc.

Angela Merkel Awarded European Order of Merit for Inflicting Massive Damage on Germany and Europe

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When the obituary is written for Germany, former Chancellor Angela Merkel will rank among those most responsible for its demise. She infamously opened the border to mass Third World immigration, flooding the country with millions of unassimilable Muslims drawn largely by generous welfare payments. She drove the pointless green energy lunacy that has crippled the German economy and left the country dependent on Russian gas. She continues to help squash free speech. Consequently, she has been granted a European Order of Merit.

Remix News notes that the damage inflicted by Merkel extends Europe-wide:

Merkel is seen as not only the architect of the EU’s open border policy back in 2015, which ultimately allowed in millions of migrants, with far-reaching and violent consequences for France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, to list just a few stories.

She also laid the groundwork for Germany’s exit from nuclear power, which has fueled the country’s economic deterioration in the face of higher energy prices and the challenges of green technologies.

As for the free speech required for a genuine democracy to function,

Investigative journalist Zara Riffler called out Merkel for her idea of democracy: “Merkel is no longer making any secret of her understanding of ‘democracy.’ She wants tough regulation for social media & AI – she wants to punish ‘lies’ (!) – in other words, a digital world in which there is only the one truth that is approved from above. That is her true face.”

As the Nobel Peace Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Emmys, Peabody Award, and Presidential Medal of Freedom confirm, there is no greater shame than to be awarded honors by the moonbat establishment.

Not everyone is pleased. Finnish MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen speaks countermoonbattery to power:

On a tip from abcanc.

Governor Maura Healy Explains Why Massachusetts Has Such Outrageous Energy Costs

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Massachusetts has some of the highest energy prices in the USA, including the second highest cost of electricity. Governor Maura Healy helps us understand why:

Turns out putting in charge moonbats who prioritize boondoggles and the global warming hoax does not make for affordable electricity.

You can bet dollars to donuts that energy costs in Taxachusetts will continue to rise so long as Democrats maintain their stranglehold.

In Healy’s defense, she is highly historic as the state’s first openly LGBTQ governor.

On tips from Wiggins and RoCar.

Libs Sue Energy Companies for Selling More Affordable Energy on Grounds It Is Less Affordable

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Energy prices have been coming down with Trump in office. But liberals are devoted to driving them back up again.

Via Ars Technica:

Michigan is taking on major oil and gas companies in court, joining nearly a dozen other states that have brought climate-related lawsuits against ExxonMobil and its industry peers. But Michigan’s approach is different: accusing Big Oil not of deceiving consumers or misrepresenting climate change risks, but of driving up energy costs by colluding to suppress competition from cleaner and cheaper technologies like solar power and electric vehicles.

EVs are not cleaner. Solar is not great for the environment either. Cheaper? Who knew enviromoonbats had a sense of humor?

On a tip from Steve T.

Moonbattery Means No Power in Nashville

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You can have a society based on the principles of DEI, or you can have the lights come on when you flip the switch. You can’t have both for long. Nashville illustrates why.

Via the Tennessee Star:

A letter from Nashville Electric Service (NES) CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin, included as part of the municipally owned power company’s resurfaced Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report for 2024, reveals NES held over 100 training sessions as part of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda.

That was just for 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.

According to the ESG report, “These courses are the first step in a multi-year training series to foster DEIAB values throughout the organization.”

As with LGBTQIA+, the acronym is expanding. DEIAB adds an extra level nausea by standing for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging. Educrats use “belonging” as a euphemism for DEI in academia to escape getting called out for racial discrimination against Caucasians.

After establishing the ESG framework, the report claims DEI ranked among the most important topics to the company.

Ms. Broyles-Aplin’s other priorities are also woke:

Through a series of interviews and public statements since her 2022 appointment, Broyles-Aplin expressed her commitment to sustainable and renewable energy…

In a recent interview, Broyles-Aplin also explained that NES prioritizes Nashville’s tree canopy when trimming limbs to prevent outages.

As for what these priorities mean to the average citizen, consider that the power has been out for thousands in Nashville for 10 days now following the winter storm that hit on January 24.

On tips from abcanc and R F.

Norway Cashes In on European Enviromoonbattery

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Finally, a silver lining has been found for the deranged enviromoonbattery that has crippled the economy of Europe. At least it provides economic opportunities for countries that reject ecoidiocy in favor of reliable and efficient fossil fuels — like Norway.

Via American Greatness:

Despite pressures to decarbonize, Norway has increased efforts to exploit oil and natural gas reserves. …

Targeted will be “frontier areas”—little-explored regions that can reward high risk with massive returns. While the U.K. suffocates its North Sea industry with windfall taxes and regulatory hostility, Norway is effectively saying, “If you won’t drill, we will.”

Black gold won’t just sit there in the ground indefinitely because fools regard it as haram.

As Norway invests in oil and gas, European countries that prefer to invest in green energy pipe dreams are becoming increasingly dependent on it for energy.

Norway does its part to appease moonbat weather gods by making heavy use of politically fashionable electric cars. However,

The gleaming EVs filling the streets of Oslo are subsidized by the government’s oil revenue.

Let’s hope the climate has a sense of humor.

On a tip from abcanc.

California Public Employees’ Retirement System Flushes Fortune Down Green Energy

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Green energy moonbattery is not the best investment:

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System for state employees lost 71% of its $468 million investment in a clean energy and technology private equity fund, state records show, but CalPERS won’t explain how.

Don’t worry, retirees; California taxpayers will pick up the tab.

CalPERS says its pension benefits are only 79% funded, leaving the state, and its taxpayers, on the hook for the other 21%. According to a recent report from Reason Foundation, CalPERS’ pension shortfall is approximately $180 billion.

The 71% loss comes to over $330 million…

…for which private equity firms were paid at least $22 million in fees and costs.

CalPERS has not been forthcoming regarding specifics of how it flushed away the money.

Had the money put into the [CalPERS Clean Energy & Technology Fund] been passively invested in an S&P 500 index fund, with dividends reinvested, the fund would have been worth approximately $3 billion.

But that would not have saved a planet imperiled by the alleged menace of anthropogenic global warming.

The Obama legacy endures in California, which continues his policy of wasting vast amounts of taxpayer money on green energy boondoggles, possibly to launder it on behalf of those with a seat at the table.

On a tip from Steve T. Hat tip: Pirate’s Cove.

Revenge of Green Energy

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Despite the vast amounts of money flushed away on its behalf, the green energy campaign has fallen upon hard times, as coercive government funding dries up under Trump and people come to realize that paying too much for inefficient energy has no perceptible effect on the allegedly problematic weather. Yet the country remains littered with wind turbines and solar panels — which can present hazards:

A loose solar panel fell from its mount and struck a 76-year-old woman Sunday in Brighton Beach [Brooklyn], police say. She later died at Lutheran Medical Center.

At last word, she had not been identified.

It is also best to steer clear of wind turbines:

On tips from Wiggins and David Kight.