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Stop Lava Ridge! Don’t Let the Feds Make Idaho a Vassal of California

It’s an easy sport for politicians to complain about Washington D.C. After all, D.C. is where so many ill-advised ideas are dreamt up and put into federal law, regulation, or judicial opinion. It’s much more difficult to find examples of federal overreach that everyone can agree on. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, however, is one […]

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It’s Not Just ONE Thing

As many of you know, I and many others have been working tirelessly to put an end to the Lava Ridge Wind Project, currently under consideration for approval by the BLM. The multi-billion dollar corporation, LS Power – currently identified as Magic Valley Energy — is the purveyor of this atrocity coming to our land. […]

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Stop the Salmon Falls Wind Project

Please help stop the Salmon Falls and Lava Ridge Wind Farms projects. Please contact Governor Little and our Congressional Delegation and express strong opposition to these taxpayer paid for boondoggles. NONE OF THE ELECTRICITY STAYS IN IDAHO! THESE PROJECTS RAPE THE LANDS OF IDAHO! THERE ARE NO BENEFITS TO IDAHO! The many reasons are listed […]

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Truth to Power

Is Idaho still the “Gem” State? Do we as adventure lovers, farmers, hunters, ranchers, outdoor enthusiasts, and transplants really grasp the serious state of peril Idaho faces? I do and I pray to God that you do too. I have been traveling all over this beautiful State for the last few months. This experience has […]

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Green Energy is About Control

Rain! Rain all day and all night. And cloudy weather for weeks on end. When the sun does not shine there is no power from solar panels. And, often when it is quite cold there is little wind to run the wind turbines. I have often thought that within the present administration there surely must […]

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TeaPartyBob: Biden’s Energy Policy a Rerun of Obama’s Higher Energy Costs

Comments by TeaPartyBob on this morning’s Kevin Miller Show on KIDO Talk Radio – 107.5 FM & 580 AM Good morning Kevin. I want to wish you a very happy birthday, my friend, and hope you will have many more. I want to thank you for letting us get the word out that the Gem […]

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Dam Removal will do Unnecessary Damage

To Salmon, and to the economies of Washington and Oregon In the recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Columbia Riverkeeper V. Wheeler case, the 12-20-2019 decision is being touted by the print media and non-government organizations (NGO) as a decision that will require dam removal on the Snake and Columbia Rivers, contending that water in […]

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Reimagining the Rural American West (Part 3 of 4)

Continuing with the second Western Governors Association (WGA) Reimagining the Rural West (RRW) workshop, held November 4 & 5 in Santa Fe, more details were revealed about the objectives to transform, not reimagine, rural communities. Up to this point, panel members are from areas or organizations where RRW objectives have been successfully implemented, the same […]

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Thanks to Free Markets, the Future of Energy Sustainability Has Never Been Brighter

The congruence of private gain and social good in energy markets is reason to give thanks this holiday season. — Published with Permission of fee.org — Depletion … pollution … security … climate change. These flashpoints of energy sustainability have been invoked time and again to advocate forced (government) transformation away from fossil fuels. But […]

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Disconnection Notice: Your Avista electric and gas bill could skyrocket!

The CEO and board of Avista are trying to sell you out to a Canadian government-owned and managed utility, named Hydro One. Does that name sound familiar? Well it should, because it was started by the very same person that started Uranium One, Maurice Strong, the UN father of Green Energy and global warming hysteria. […]

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30-years later, James Hansen blasts renewables

— Published with Permission of cfact.org — The liberal news media lauded James Hansen, former head of NASA’s Goddard Institute, on the 30-year anniversary of his U.S. Senate testimony bringing global warming into the American political consciousness. Conveniently, however, most of the media failed to note Hansen’s criticisms of the environmental impacts of wind and […]

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Links for ‘Eye-Opening’ Info on Ontario’s Hydro One You Should Know BEFORE they Own Avista!

1. Hydro Rates in Ontario are killing small business and High hydro rates killed Ontario jobs: Study 2. Ontario’s Five Year Climate Change Action Plan 2016-2020 3. Rate data from utility websites in 2017 4. Increasing hydro prices are devastating rural Ontario 5. Auditor General, by Adam Beck on YouTube, Heated over Hydro One 6. […]

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