All posts tagged "green energy"

(Andy Matthews/NPRI) – “Facts,” John Adams once famously said, “are stubborn things.” I recalled this quote while reading Kyle Gillis’ coverage of Sen. Harry Reid’s fifth annual National Clean Energy Summit, which was held Tuesday in Las Vegas. A constant theme at these summits has been that “investing” (i.e., spending large sums...

I can’t believe the subdued reaction this got from the media, including Steve Sebelius writing an opinion column that just described what happened. On Tuesday, the second most powerful man in the United States, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, publicly called for a private company, in this case NV Energy, Nevada’s monopoly electricity...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – With U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s 5th annual National Clean Energy Summit set to kick off today in Las Vegas, the debate over alternative energy development and the government’s role in its future rages on. The purpose of the day-long event as described on the website is to,...

(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) With the calendar pages about to eclipse another month on the way to the deadline for Harry Reid’s ChiCom buddies to close a deal on 9,000 acres of cut-rate public land near Laughlin for their proposed multibillion-dollar solar power facility, Harry appears to be getting a bit anxious. On...

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – Another reminder of why government shouldn’t try and pick the winners and losers in the economy. Despite receiving almost $100 million from taxpayers, Nevada Geothermal Power is going broke. A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in...

(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Out of the mouths of rubes. Nobody ever does the math when it comes to stories about “green” energy projects. I remember all the glowing stories about the huge array of solar panels at Nellis Air Force Base and how they would save the Air Force $1 million a...

(Thomas Mitchell/(4TH ST8) Harry Reid wants Nevada to be powered by “green” energy, even if it costs...

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – In case you needed any more evidence that President Obama’s “all of the above” talking point on energy policy is a joke, Nevada Assemblyman “Tick” Segerblom, D.-Clark County, just wrote an op-ed bragging about how a recent ruling from Obama’s EPA will kill coal power. Media analysts from left...

(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) in·vest·ment (in-vest-muhnt) noun: the investing  of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.  In announcing the president’s travels this week, the White House said: “On Wednesday, the President will begin the tour in Boulder City, Nevada where he will visit...

  (Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) After spending a million dollars from Obama’s green energy stash to erect six...

(Thomas Mitchell/4th St8) – It’s been said many times and many ways over the past couple of days, but I doubt if it’s been said any better. The Morning Bell at Heritage Foundation opens with this ringing indictment of the Obama administration and gets to the crux of the matter: “If Americans...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Some companies are in business to serve consumers. Others are in business to serve themselves. Such was the case of Solyndra — a newly bankrupt California-based firm in the ostensible business of manufacturing solar panels. Solyndra’s business model — like that of many “renewable”-energy-component manufacturers — doesn’t achieve success...

(Thomas Mitchell/4th St8) – How could any news story be more thoroughly reported and exhaustively detailed than one Sunday in the Las Vegas Sun “newspaper” about the connection between Nevada and Red China? The story starts with the Chinese coolies brought in to build the railroads to carry Nevada’s gold and silver...