Another catastrophic event for the energy industry

North Dakota, USA a number of environmental watch dog web sites are reporting the blades of a wind turbine fell from the tower putting that unit off line pending repair.  The results of this disaster are:

No gazillion ton concrete containment dome will have to be built over the site.

No 20 mile evacuation radius has been established for the safety of the residents, yet.

No civil or military efforts have been required for rescue and recovery.

Loss of life so far is restricted to a few dozen prairie grass plants the blades drove into the earth.

No radiation has been reported in other nations, local milk shows no increase in radiation.

Up to now the nearest ocean has not been used as a dump for leaking fluids.

The return to service of this wind mill could be as little as a few weeks. 

The surrounding grid and consumers have suffered zero power outages following the event.

What is the true and total cost of Wind energy?  What is it for nuclear energy?

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Amber alert for Toadie

Attention Blogstream refugees!   Toadie is still missing.  I'm calling the milk company and asking them, put Toadie on the carton.   A month ago he said he was on his way, but he never showed up, I'm getting really scared.  Any news?  Anyone?

Mitt Hole

I don't know what it means, maybe you do.   Tell me, tell us, what does it mean?

Vertical Gasoline aided by bugs and hotter weather (visit NRDC.org)

All over the American Southwest the pine trees are under attack by a pine tree bore.  This bug drills so many holes in the trunk of the pine it spills it's sap out and dies. If you go to the base of a tree in it's final days, you see sawdust on the ground and the tree weeping sap.  From the high desert mountains in southern New Mexico to north of Yellowstone you can see whole mountain sides of dead pine forests, standing death, vertical gasoline waiting for the spark.  This year and the next few could see the largest fastest fires we have ever known.  The beetle causing this can be killed by spray, but it is impossible to spray billions of pines in the West and the capacity to do so does not exist.  Once these forests are gone erosion will set in, heat in the mountain states will rise further.  New pines will grow but the beetle attacks them as soon as they are as thick as a mans wrist.  I have not heard a good projection of what these mountains will look like in a few years.  Aspen cannot take the place of all the pine, they usually grow on different facing slopes, each have their niche for sun and moisture.    

These beetles or bores, are at the Canadian border now, science says they will move north in the next few years.  Low temperatures exclude them now, but with the coming warmer temperatures they can survive there too.  

Get to the mountains of the West as soon as you can, enjoy the healthy pines where you find them, notice the dead groves, and stay alert, camp in safe places, away from the dead trees and near water and with an exit strategy.  Get to the parks, let your legislators and your state park people know you want the facilities maintained, and the animals protected.   Go to NRDC.org.  If you do not know this group, they are rated one of the top charity in the US.  Almost all their money goes to the purpose it was collected for, this my friends is something few charities can confirm.  They spend very little money raising money or paying directors, and they have the best track record among environmental groups, what they fight for they often achieve.  

NRDC alert, while we slept, Dems and Repubs decided to shoot the dogs.

.......to report that the last-minute budget deal agreed to by Congressional leaders on Friday night will strip endangered species protection from gray wolves across most of the Northern Rockies, leaving them at the mercy of states that plan to kill hundreds of them. 

This stealth attack on wolves -- which circumvents the will of the courts and good science -- was inserted by Representative Mike Simpson (R, ID) and Senator Jon Tester (D, MT). It was approved by the leadership of both the House and the Senate, and it was okayed by the White House. 

It is a shameful day for this nation when both parties unite behind the slaughter of an endangered species -- without public hearing or debate. 

And there is another victim here as well: the Endangered Species Act. 

Congress has never before removed an animal from the endangered species list. By replacing scientific judgment with political calculation, the House and Senate have struck at the very heart of wildlife protection in America. 

We have to make sure that the political door is not thrown open to new attacks on other imperiled species. 

Contact your Senator and the White House expressing your outrage at this attack on wolves and telling them to keep their hands off the Endangered Species Act. 
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When asked, visitors to the national parks say the number one thing they would like while there, is to hear the wolf.   Can you imagine it, a few old men have just decided it would be more fun to have them all killed. 

The secret to being rich is being rich

 It may seem too fantastic to be true, but the top 400 people with the highest income in the nation end up paying a lower tax rate than the next 1,399,600 wage earners.  This according to the magazine Businessweek.  News today, JP Morgan HMFWIC got a raise, 19 million, a nice raise.
Lets see, to grow the economy we need to make their tax breaks permanent, greater, broader, and ensure they can pass the wealth on to their kids to ensure the multigenerational money-royal aristocratic plutocracy now in power of corporate America will flourish.  OK grunts, stop dreaming, pay your taxes.